Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2012-06-17
- RT @marcoarment: Torn about Reeder 3.0. Prettier than 2.x, but slower, less intuitive, less readable, and a huge Readability ad.
But no … #
- RT @dmoren: Because sometimes you don't want to save that article for later, @lexfri and I created a new service: Read It Now. http://t. … #
- RT @kellan: I'm struggling with the implications of AMZN wanting to own .joy and GOOG wanting to own .love #
- RT @golan: "Original ideas are the kiss of death for a proposal, because they have not yet been proven to work." http://t.co/ZaK7D0DL #
- RT @bruces: http://t.co/MkBD04mS *You don't "fix" instantiations that are part of a Stack. #Apple #verticalintegration #MacbookPro #
- RT @revdancatt: "tax payers get to throw endless money at having themselves monitored." Government surveillance in perspective. #
- RT @0xabad1dea: Siri says: take a left off the next bridge and die. http://t.co/hv18hP2M #
- RT @tigoe: I don't think I can call myself a designer, or an artist, or an engineer, or a professor. Mostly I'm an emailer. #
- RT @tomcoates: You know, sometimes I wonder if they'd even bother building these things if it wasn't for the money… #
- RT @tomcoates: Oh I'm sorry, is the FUCKING MAGIC BRICK IN YOUR POCKET THAT TALKS TO SATELLITES NOT SHOWING YOU THE ENTIRE PLANET TO YOU … #
- RT @RobKH: The real tragedy of football is that they would score far more goals if both teams put their differences aside and worked tog … #
- RT @nicolasnova: An era in which the world 'clouds' correspond to big, dark and energy-consuming warehouses. #
- RT @corxo: Here’s new iOS6 maps and the normal Google Maps side by side for Kings X. Which would you rather use? http://t.co/t354uS4N #
- RT @sdw: Apple to Twitter: "Cool new logo guys, could use some text." http://t.co/5ZxO0pbi #
Prometheus Movie UI Design Concepts
Ash Thorp was hired to design UI concepts for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Inventing Interactive did a brief interview with him.
Added July 10th, 2012: For some unexplained reason that interview with Ash Thorp is no longer available online. There’s a new one with David Sheldon-Hicks of Territory about their involvement in the movie though.
The Cyberspace Real
The refusal of closure is always, at some level, a refusal to face mortality. Our fixation on electronic games and stories is in part an enactment of this denial of death. They offer us the chance to erase memory, to startover, to replay an event and try for a different resolution. In this respect, electronic media have the advantage of enacting a deeply comic vision of life, a vision of retrievable mistakes and open options.
Slavoj Zizek – The Cyberspace Real.
Interface Origami
Juan Sanchez describes his approach to prototyping gestural interfaces with paper:
[A]s a designer I find it’s important to remove myself from that [digital] space and explore solutions that can originate in physical space.
By physically modeling the interface in paper, Sanchez quickly found ways to expand upon its core ideas. His “accordion” and “fold and peel” gestures intuitively exploit the affordances implied by (but not included with) Clear’s pinch-to-open and pinch-to-close commands. A designer putting a Clear-like gestural interface together digitally would have to come up with these extra ideas out of thin air, which could lead to a grab bag of interesting but disconnected gestures. Toying around with a paper model, on the other hand, lets new gestures reveal themselves organically and stay intuitively related. After all, if your paper model is folded into segments that smoosh down into an accordion-like stack, they probably shouldn’t swipe left and right like Scrabble tiles at the same time. If it doesn’t make sense in physical reality, why should it act that way in your app?
Avengers Movie UI Design
By Jayse Hansen:
This is just an image dump of marvel approved stills and screenshots of my work on the film. I’ll do a proper post soon – this is a fraction of the work – But I had the distinct pleasure of working with Cantina Creative, leading the design of the glass screens for the Helicarier in the Avengers. I also led the design and animation of the all new and upgraded Mark VII Hud.
All work was done in Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4d.
Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2012-06-10
- RT @BanksyIdeas: Stencil of a couple at the altar. But instead of a vicar, there's a laptop. They're changing their FB status to 'marrie … #
- RT @mattcomi: Eve tempted Adam with the Apple but Adam was all, “why would I when I can get a Lenovo with a i7-2670QM and GT540M?” and E … #
- RT @alaindebotton: Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly. #
Serendipitor
Serendipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else. The app combines directions generated by a routing service (in this case, the Google Maps API) with instructions for action and movement inspired by Fluxus, Vito Acconci, and Yoko Ono, among others. Enter an origin and a destination, and the app maps a route between the two. You can increase or decrease the complexity of this route, depending how much time you have to play with. As you navigate your route, suggestions for possible actions to take at a given location appear within step-by-step directions designed to introduce small slippages and minor displacements within an otherwise optimized and efficient route. You can take photos along the way and, upon reaching your destination, send an email sharing with friends your route and the steps you took.
Previously: Situationist.
LiquiData
LiquiData is a multitouch application to explore your personal movement profile and to show other people engaging places by adding photos and comments with the help of your smartphone. It can be seen as a rating system that offers people the possibility to discover new spots in an unknown surrounding e.g. during a city-visit. Although a smartphone is not necessary to interact with the system, it offers you the possibility to give insights to your movements through the city and lets you compare your mental map with the reality. For instance, this system could give guests of a hotel (lobby) the option to share their walked trails and show other visitors their favorite coffee shops or parks.
Digeneration
James Bridle for The Photographers’ Gallery as part of the Joy of GIF exhibition (2012):
The image depicts the progressive degradation of an image caused by applying every single Instagram filter in turn. I happen to believe that the filter process in apps like Instagram and now increasingly pervasive across digital photography is a semi-conscious process of legitimisation in time, engraining disposable images of the moment with a patina of memory and experience, in order to save and justify them.
I Am Sitting In A Video Room (2010) by Patrick Liddell:
I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice as well as the image of myself, and I am going to upload it to YouTube, rip it from YouTube, and upload it again and again, until the original characteristics of both my voice and my image are destroyed. What you will see and hear, then, are the artifacts inherent in the video codec of both YouTube and the mp4 format I convert it to on my computer. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a digital fact, but more as a way to eliminate all human qualities my speech and image might have.
Generation Loss (2009) by David Elliott:
Open the last saved jpeg image
Save it as a new jpeg image with slightly more compression
Repeat 600 times
How not to save a tiger
The therapeutic role of digital media is to allow an instrumental view of social relations to be propagated, in which the instrument somehow suspends any sense of moral causality or responsibility. Between the ‘input’ and the ‘output’ is a machine that we are blissfully unable or unwilling to understand. Hence, the possibility that clicking “send” might stop a stoning in Iran.
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