Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.
via laughing squid
It may not be the most innovative idea ever, but this live version of Angry Birds was probably really fun to produce. Plus it’s always interesting to see the translation of an online experience into the physical world — it definitely started a party in Barcelona!
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Ogilvy & Mather, Colombia, created a live interactive experience to promote the game of Pictionary.
People stepped into a free photobooth set up in a mall, took “pictures”, and 10 seconds later, received cartoons of themselves as scribbled by a hidden cartoonist.
A clever immersive idea to promote a fun product.
Contributed by Jonathan Graham
Dorkbot at The Exploratorium tonight, Wednesday, March 30, 7:30pm
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/
BarBot 2011, an art show with Cocktail Robotics at pariSoma in San Francisco, April 1-2 9pm-2am
http://robogames.net/barbot.php
Live Electronic Music and Sound Art Installations by CCRMA and guests (including Trimpin!) at SOMArts in San Francisco, Saturday, April 2, installations 4-8pm free, concert 8pm-12am $10 https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/modulations/
Contributed by Caio Lazzuri
On July 24, 2010, YouTube invited people from all over the world to capture glimpses of their lives on camera and upload them to YouTube. The resulting Life in a Day project, directed by Kevin MacDonald and produced by Ridley Scott, weaves together about 1,000 snapshots of people’s lives — out of over 80,000 total submissions — to create a completely user-generated and powerful documentary of daily life.
Tonight the 90-min feature film premieres at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and streams live on YouTube simultaneously (8 p.m. EST). Google Creative Labs also developed a massive touch screen installation featuring all of the videos, including the thousands not shown in the film, that’s currently on display at Sundance in Park City, Utah.
Via YouTube
Our friends over at AKQA are using their office building (conveniently located next door to AT&T Park) and some clever technology to make online Giants World Series fervor a part of the live game experience:
(pic via AKQA)
Send your tweets to #gogiants to get in on the action.
Read more here.
Video projection mapping transforms the already unusual exterior of Frank Gehry’s IAC building at the Vimeo Festival + Awards in New York.
via Laughing Squid
An installation of the new Toyota Auris with Hybrid Synergy Drive uses projection mapping to bring to life the technology within the Auris itself. Glue Isobar used seven projectors to project a CG version of the car onto the real car, allowing observers to walk around the car and experience the effect.
Thanks to Glue Isobar for sharing.
Teenagers visiting the Coca-Cola Village Amusement Park in Israel could Like locations throughout the park simply by waving their personal RFID bracelet in front of a physical Facebook Like button.
via All Facebook
Beijing’s Water Cube, the site of Michael Phelps dominating 2008 Olympics performance, has been transformed into a waterpark of Alice-in-Wonderland-tastic proportions.
(via Fast Company Design)
Many worried the building would become an empty blight, but a Toronto architecture firm has turned it into anything but. The park replaces the pool which people could swim in for $7. Now it is more of a monument to Michael Phelps’ recreational habits than his professional ones.
Video coverage from CNN below: