This project illuminates the flow of invisible wifi networks. A wifi measuring rod lights up depending on the strength of wifi signals, and long-exposure photographs capture the light’s as the rod moves through space.
Stamen’s use of watercolor lends an calming, handmade quality to these data-driven maps of San Francisco. Zoom in for more detail, or order a print for your home!
A beautiful visualization of surface wind patterns over the U.S.: http://hint.fm/wind/
Cinemagrams are the new GIFs — get them before a creative asks you about them!
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim
Roof-mounted sensors translate light, rain, wind and thunder inputs to generate an impromptu musical score.
Drawing its sounds directly from the elements, no day’s synthesizer-style music is the same — who knew lightning could sound like reverb and that moonlight purrs?
Another take on a musical house from the artist Swoon: http://kck.st/lDCdCT
Via Laughing Squid
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
Attention all creative directors who never bothered to learn Photoshop: here’s an amazing new Wacom tool that transforms your sketches into digital files.
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Via Discovery News
Let’s face it… Kinect hacks continue to be cool. Here’s an elegant one for a music video for the singer BELL, which uses the motion senser and a projector to display elegant designs on her face.
Another Chrome experiment from Google, All Is Not Lost features the band OK Go and members of the dance troupe Pilobolus. Filmed from below a glass floor, bodies move and press against the glass (in seafoam green unitards, no less) to form kaleidoscopic shapes and your personalized inspirational message to Japan.
The online video was first shot in 3D and made possible by HTML5 — hence Google’s connection and endorsement of Chrome as the preferred browser. While it kind of feels like it could have been cooler, the video is reminiscent of the captivating, multi-window viewing experiences of the Wilderness Downtown and Soul-Mirror.
Try it out with your own message: http://www.allisnotlo.st/
Contributed by Francois Grouiller
110 Stories imposes an outline view of the Twin Towers on the NYC skyline using augmented reality.
Based on your location, the app offers a glimpse back of how the towers figured into the cityscape from multiple vantage points. The app also encourages people to comment and share their memories and impressions of the augmented skyline.
The project, from artist Brian August, reached its goal on Kickstarter just in time for the 10 year anniversary of 9/11.
Read more about it here: http://kck.st/nIyEjN