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Oct
8th
Thu
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Speaking piano. Sounds like a steampunk future.

Sep
23rd
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“CG Shortfilm about Louis Kahn’s Phillips Exeter Academy Library.”

Very nice.

Sep
10th
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‘Under a violent irruption of forms and structures, everything flows towards a constant evolution. “All that is solid” is a visual and poetic journey influenced by art, design, architecture and photography.’

http://vimeo.com/6504980

Aug
21st
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“Registration of the amazing keynote by sf author and design critic Bruce Sterling, “At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry”. He talks about its history, the cool side, the dark side and gives the industry some pointers to be successful.

Recorded at the Layar Launch Event on August 17th in Amsterdam where the Layar Reality Browser was launched for the world. See layar.com”

http://vimeo.com/6189763

Aug
3rd
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‘Karl Schroeder, “The Rewilding: A Metaphor”’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7pkohj6wE

Jul
31st
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‘Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”, from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009.’

http://vimeo.com/5732745

Jul
24th
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‘The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart”. Resultant permeabilty of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves - describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself.’

http://vimeo.com/5595869

May
15th
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“Us Now takes a look at how this type of participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever.

Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager; and Couch Surfing, a vast online network whose members share their homes
with strangers.

The founding principles of these projects — transparency,
self-selection, open participation — are coming closer and closer to the mainstream of our social and political lives. Us Now describes this transition and confronts politicians George Osborne and Ed Milliband with the possibilities for participative government as described by Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky amongst others.”

via http://vimeo.com/4489849

Apr
28th
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“Obscura Digital, the company has used their propriety software to control a giant HD light show spread across multiple HD projectors for a Mcafee ad. Think of it as using 3d graphics gear to make the real world look like video games, instead of using 3d g”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=747_1240832889

Apr
7th
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If imagination is not set to the task of building a creative life, it busies itself with weaving a web of inner fears and doubts, blame and excuse.
— Laurence G. Boldt