From wallets that help your spending to hula girls that tweet from your carshare, the work of concept artist John Kestner — who uses APIs to “teach” objects how to react to our everyday lives — could be amazing inspiration for DOOH work.
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A simple, elegant art piece made from illuminated rocker switches honors the roots of computer programming while commenting on how quickly technology seems outdated.
Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.
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The Lytro camera makes taking quick snapshots quick again. When you click to take a photo, the camera captures all the light information it can and provides you with a digital file you can edit later.
Born out of founder Ren Ng’s years of research and PhD thesis, this development in digital photography has the potential to transform still shots into more interactive, varied pictures as the user can edit the photo to switch between different points of focus, adjust the light levels, etc.
Essentially, the technology lets you take your photos more quickly, and then play with them for longer. What sounds better than that?
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FRAMED* is a simple, modern display that hints at the inevitable presence of these kinds of screens in all our surroundings. Home, work, wherever — as the technology develops, so will the frame for showcasing it.
Dance Writer translates text into mesmerizing movement. Originally an iPhone/iPad app, it’s now an online tool for sending elegant animated messages.
Where’s the value in this? Sure, it moves slowly and is probably best reserved for short messages. But there’s something captivating about it and the possibilities of visual storytelling.
Justin Gignac, artist and advertising art director, talks at PSFK about the inspiration behind some of his wonderful web-based ideas.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/10/justin-gignac-psfk/
Planetary, a new app for iPad from Bloom Studio, Inc., allows you to travel through a solar system made up of your iTunes library — imagine all your albums as planets! Your favorite artists orbiting in their own universe! Celestial technology at its best.
This innovative software uses Nike+ GPS data to create stunning custom visuals. Tracking a runner’s speed and style, the software produces abstract maps and visualizations of runs throughout the city. At a lunch event for Nike+2 City Pack series, participants played with the software and printed images of their runs as posters and as designs on custom Nike shoe boxes.
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These already-cool photographs — captured at night with long-exposure film and a laptop playing an animation — become infinitely cooler once you know the haunting story behind them. (Conceived by GSP’s Croix Gagnon)
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