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Shaona Sen | MYND BLOC "Building Blocks for Creative Minds" | A digital zine of findings and musings (The other one: withshaona.tumblr.com)
The Scale of the Universe
Very humbling interactive infographic!:
by Cary and Michael Huang, of HTwins.
(via Thrive, Duane Melius)
LEGO’S transition into the digital world:
Two factors that came to mind immediately:
1. Challenging a child’s play/work space, in the sense of containment. Pro could be developing organizational skills as child would want to keep Legos pieces closer to documenting device (iPhone). Con could be the lack of more mindless liberties of play time as a child, lack of mental and physical exercise involved in cleaning up (such as less thought in re-organizing process when cleaning up).
2. Lack of emphasis from guardian(s) for child to partake in human interaction (face-to-face play time), which is an integral part in the growth of an individual’s personality from a young age.
“The titular George tasks players with recreating objects from his travels using 144 real-life Lego blocks. You build whatever you have seen on the smartphone as fast as possible, then snap a picture to score points - placing the completed model on a piece of cardboard marked with a dotted pattern helps the phone identify each Lego piece.”
(via newscientist.com)
Design and sync musical aqua creatures!
“An experimental musical petri-dish. Adopting a biological metaphor, Seaquence allows you to create and combine musical lifeforms into unique, dynamic compositions.
try for yourself: www.seaquence.org
By Ryan Alexander, Gabriel Dunne, and Daniel Massey (GAFFTA resident artists)
*Begin with caution! Once you start experimenting, it’s hard to stop.
(via Thas Naseemuddeen)
Please experience for yourself!→
Arcade Fire’s HTML5 “The Wilderness Downtown” music video. Nostalgic interactivity.
I remember running home that fast back in the elementary school days to make summer sunset curfew. I miss those days! Mucho.
More info on development process: www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire
(via chromeexperiments.com)
Multi-Touch Digital Light Turntable
(DJ touch screen interface and gesture interaction concepts)
(via VanguardBot/GERGWERK)
New Broken Bells’ October interactive video!→
MUST check out! Awesome viewer pen/mouse experience! Some screenshots of my encounter above! The visuals most definitely enhance the lyrics.
ARAKAWA + GINS’ (Arakawa and Madeline Gins) Reversible Destiny Lofts in Mitaka (Tokyo), Japan.
“Reversible Destiny Lofts”= Youthfully interactive nursing home. Before diving in, their tag line, “Architecture Against Death”, and motto, “We have decided not to die” strongly speak the philosophical approach evident in their projects.
There is a total of 9 lofts designed in memory of Helen Keller. Colors, material and structural design are inviting and joyous for all ages. Arakawa and Gins emphasis on detail, such as the floor’s wavy composure to enhance one’s walking experience, is respected.
More on the thought process of this project:
“Procedural architecture is an architecture of precision and unending invention. Works of procedural architecture function as well-tooled pieces of equipment that help the body organize its thoughts and actions to a greater degree than had previously been thought possible.”
“The living body is in desperate need of an architectural context within which to demonstrate right on the spot its capabilities as a whole, ones already included in its repertoire as well as those still to be discovered or invented. These lofts make vivid to their residents the operative tendencies and coordinating skills essential to and determinative of human thought and behavior; which means to say, they manage, by virtue of how they are constructed, to reveal to their residents the ins and outs of what makes a person tick.”
A film of the interior:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOSdutS4lA&feature=player_embedded
Hope for when I am wrinkly and less mobile. The people living in this complex right now are blessed.
Side note: Their 2006 published book, “Making Dying Illegal”, begins with this statement: “Reversible Destiny Statute: “Not making an all-out effort to go on living and the act of dying are from this date on classed first-order felonies. Citizens will need to strive to define the heartiness of their existences and be responsible for astute and timely assessment of negative patterns of events and failed or failing conditions. Choosing to live within a tactically posed surround/tutelary abode will be counted as an all-out effort to go on living.”
Side, side note: This past week, at least 3 of my posts have been highlighting Japanese audio and visual creatives. Hm.
(via reversibledestiny.org)
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come alive→
written by John Graham-Cumming
This book consumed most of my time while in Barnes & Noble this past Saturday.
One of the highlights: Atomium of Brussels
(www.atomium.be/#/Photos.aspx)
On the Atomium structure: “First and foremost, it’s a totally crazy, fantastical, almost sci-fi building, which defies the imagination and lets your emotions run wild. Nine spheres, 5 of which you can go into and twenty tubes to wander through until you lose all your bearings, until you arrive at the unique panoramic view of the whole of the city of Brussels.”
History: “The Atomium was not intended to survive beyond the 1958 World Fair but its popularity and success soon made it a key landmark, first of Brussels then internationally.”
(photo via library.thinkquest.com)
(via geekatlas.com/atomium.be)
