This Exquisite Forest

This Exquisite Forest is a collaborative storytelling tool. Inspired by the Surrealist drawing game of “exquisite corpse,” the site allows anyone to start an animation tree by drawing a series of short frames — a “seed” — or add on to an existing tree. The project, from Google’s Data Arts team, is also temporarily installed in the Tate Modern in London.

Check out some popular trees here and here and here.

Go Right – A Supercut of Classic Video Games

We’ve gamed a long way from two dimensions.

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Nubot – A Video Chat Robot Doll

Nubot is a doll ready to host smartphone video chats via Skype.

The remote user can control the doll’s body gestures (wave, bow, turn) giving them more of a physical presence.

The folks at Nuuo that developed Nubot use it to have teleconferences between their offices.

We’ve seen a more mobile, albeit less cute, telepresence robot named Texai in the past.

Cinemagrams

Cinemagrams are the new GIFs — get them before a creative asks you about them!

http://cinemagram.tumblr.com/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim

Don’t Fear the Internet Tutorials

Continuing the Internet self-education theme, “Don’t Fear the Internet” is another great resource bank of instructional videos that explain how the Internet works and teach some basic coding.

The project was cooked up by designers and it, in their words, will “help demystify html and css coding so you can prettify your blogs and quit asking your nerd friends for freebies!”

Check it out: http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/

BELL / Chase no Face

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.

All is OK GO

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

Flixmaster

Introducing Flixmaster, an HTML-5 video editor/player that could enable new ways to experience digital video online.

Since it allows users to produce online video content with a simple drag and drop system, this could be fun technology to explore for digital storytelling projects.

Contributed by Ralph Paone

8-Bit Invader – Video Game Projection Mapping

8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.

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Using Your Hands to Light Paint with Kinect Graffiti

Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.

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