The Think Tank

Video

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:43:52 -0700

The young child learning to draw...

Sun, 31 May 2009 22:08:17 -0700

“The young child learning to draw has long interested both psychologists and artists. When he first draws a man or a truck or a table, I suggest, he depicts the invariants that he has learned to notice. He does not draw in patchwork perspective, for he never had the experience of a patchwork. He may not yet draw in edge perspective because he has not noticed it. Hence, he may draw a table with a rectangular top and four legs at the corners because those are the invariant features of the table he has noticed. This is a better explanation than saying he draws what he knows about the table, his concept, instead of what he sees of the table, his sensation. The fatal flaw of the latter explanation is that it ought to be the other way around. The child should begin by drawing sensations and progress to drawing concepts.” —James J. Gibson

'The Secret New York' @ Yellow Arrow (an exploration of 'situational semantics' and storytelling within a software application)

Sun, 24 May 2009 22:17:00 -0700

'The Secret New York' @ Yellow Arrow (an exploration of 'situational semantics' and storytelling within a software application)

"The Absurdist abandoned all hope of finding meaning in life and embraced a sort of nihilism. The..."

Mon, 18 May 2009 10:04:13 -0700

““The Absurdist abandoned all hope of finding meaning in life and embraced a sort of nihilism. The Absurdist was convinced that everything was meaningless and absurd. The subjectivity of a Romantic was appealing to the Absurdist. However, even that implied that something was transcendent—a desire—and the Absurdist would have nothing to do with that.” —James Stobaugh”

Clap your hands.

Tue, 12 May 2009 03:57:24 -0700

Clap your hands.

M Concepts merchandise now available

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:34:00 -0800

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The SPAMINAL: A journal of all things spam related, including the mango crisis in Hawaii.

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0800

The SPAMINAL: A journal of all things spam related, including the mango crisis in Hawaii.: If you think you have spam in your mailbox that is newsworthy, please send it to spam@savethemangos.com you just might make a twitter headline and save a mango!

Be careful not to say ‘I don’t know’ on...

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:58:00 -0800

Be careful not to say ‘I don’t know’ on twitter or you might get slimed by our new twitter slimer @primeslime

Video

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:33:00 -0800

Body Navigation Two dancers and their digital reproduction are...

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:41:00 -0700

Body Navigation

Two dancers and their digital reproduction are the scenographic frame of this humorous and emotional portrait of human relations. Based on rules and structured in a game like manner, the installation makes way for a playful dialog between the man, woman and the digital “footprints” they leave behind.

From: http://www.recoil-performance.org

Video

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:06:56 -0700

Nokia BMW video phone concept wows us

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:53:00 -0700

Nokia BMW video phone concept wows us:

The iPhone App Store – Apple’s true breakthrough

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:33:26 -0700

The iPhone App Store – Apple’s true breakthrough:

You could have had a tough time in the 90’s if you were an independent software developer for Nokia or Ericsson smart phones.

Little was known about creating applications for GEOS and EPOC (latterly Symbian) and then to make any decent sales the company had to be in the application book that came with the handset.
Nokia tried to expand this with their various partner programmes but the resulting directories unfortunately had little impact despite their best efforts.
Handango stepped into the breach with a market place for small software vendors that at least tries to give vendors an easy to use shop front. Unfortunately users have to consciously make the effort to search for an application, or rely on word of mouth, leaving many innovative developers without a market.
Then along came the iPhone App store….

Discover OS X's hidden artistic side

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:11:40 -0700

Discover OS X's hidden artistic side:

One of the most frequently used Cocoa classes is NSImage which, as the name suggests, is all about displaying and manipulating image data. The imageNamed: method of this class retrieves an image reference for you - provided that you know the name of the image you’re after.

Exploring what Here and Presence means using tele-immersive The...

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:36:09 -0700

Exploring what Here and Presence means using tele-immersive

The Resonance Project Dance Group performed for a very large crowd in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building at UC Berkeley. The performance was a blend of live, modern dance with live tele-immersed dancers from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Using a large network of cameras and computers the dancers were able to span the geographic distance and mingle in cyberspace. The computers merged three-dimensional video images of the dancers onto a single projection, which was broadcast alongside live dancers.

The Resonance Project is a team of choreographers, dancers, computer engineers, and visual and sound artists who are investigating concepts of presence/remote presence and corporeal and code interactivity within live and media based performance. Unique to the project is the use of a “performance as research” model, within which scientists and artists collaborate to explore a re-visioning of cyber culture and corporeal presence.

The participants in the Resonance Project include the tele-immersion lab at the UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the tele-immersion lab within the University of Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Department, the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Dance Department and Intermedia Program at Mills College. This event is part of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC).

Ideablob: where ideas grow

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:40:00 -0700

Ideablob: where ideas grow:

Ideablob is a living, breathing community of ideas.

Submit your idea for a Rich Internet Application.

Get votes.

Win $10,000.
(contest ends Sept. 30, 2008)

…Come talk to us about your project.

Design and the Elastic Mind @ MoMA

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:13 -0700

Design and the Elastic Mind @ MoMA: Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace—working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information. Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of intelligence, but today’s instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger: elasticity, the product of adaptability plus acceleration. Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior—and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use. This Web site presents over three hundred of these works, including fifty projects that are not featured in the gallery exhibition.

How to create value-driven user stories

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:35:35 -0700

How to create value-driven user stories:

Get your product backlog in order!

Touch as a vehicle for child development.One of...

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:49:00 -0700

Touch as a vehicle for child development.
One of Mattiene-Arienne’s first designed toys…
‘Touch and see.’

Walking down memory lane.

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:21:00 -0700

Walking down memory lane.