October 26, 2005
Visual Complexity
[thanks to Joseph Cartman for the link.]
The brainchild of R/GA interaction designer, Manuel Lima. VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.
Posted by richard ting at October 26, 2005, 08:12 PM
October 22, 2005
Groovisions
Groovisions is a design office in Kyoto. Founded in 1993 by Hiroshi Ito, the company has covered a wide range of projects and promotional material such as video work, animation, short film, music, sound installation, installation art, design, photography, and fashion design. Some of their clients include Pizzicato Five, Nike, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
Posted by richard ting at October 22, 2005, 02:24 PM
Vector Overlays for Google Maps
VGMap is a new library created by Eyebeam R&D that allows designers, developers, and mapping geeks to overlay data on top of Google Maps in a richer way than is possible using their standard system. It is called VGMap because it adds vector-drawing capability to the already-awesome GMap API.
The Google Maps API enables point and line data on their maps in the form of markers, and polylines. This has yielded a lot of great applications, such as Housing Maps and the GMaps Pedometer (see more at Google Maps Mania). What it does not allow for is vector graphics, which precludes the use of Google Maps for more sophisticated GIS applications. Flash provides for vector drawing, as well as a well-worn interactive and animation functionality. This VGMap library is simply the glue between GMap and Flash, as well as a handful of Flash ActionScript libraries and sample code to simplify the process of drawing over the map correctly.
Posted by richard ting at October 22, 2005, 01:56 PM
October 12, 2005
Tokion's Creativity Now Conference
Tokion Magazine announces the Third Annual Creativity Now Conference, to be held at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall on October 15th and 16th, 2005. This unique symposium will bring together top figures in art, design, fashion, photography, film, new media, publishing and marketing. In the same room for the first time, the people shaping today's popular culture will spend two days exchanging their ideas, methods and inspirations before an audience of 2,000.
Creativity Now will consist of several panel discussions and individual presentations.
A large cross section of the contemporary creative community is expected to attend the conference, which will be open to the public. Creativity Now will be the definitive yearbook of popular culture for 2005.
Check out the site.
Posted by richard ting at October 12, 2005, 01:47 PM
October 11, 2005
Liveplasma on C|NET.com
So it looks like liveplasma is no longer just focused on music and movies. I noticed the other day on C|NET.com a mini-version of liveplasma, but applied to the news story that I was reading. It was a nice way to show related topics and stories in a compelling visual format. Very nice bonus for all the data-viz heads out there.
Check out liveplasma on C|NET.com.
Posted by richard ting at October 11, 2005, 02:45 PM
October 10, 2005
FILE FESTIVAL 2005
FILE - International Festival of Electronic Language is a non-profit cultural organization whose purpose is to disseminate and to develop arts, technologies and scientific research, by means of exhibitions, debates, lectures, and courses. The festival promotes an yearly meeting in Brazil, in the city of São Paulo, of international arts and new-media professionals.
FILE's sixth edition happens at SESI's Art Gallery, with the exhibition of webart, netart, artificial life, hypertext, computer animation, real-time teleconference, virtual reality, software art works, besides games, interactive films, e-videos, digital panoramas, and electronic-art and robotic installations, in interactive and immersive rooms.
The FIESP Cultural Center mezzanine will host the fourth edition of FILE Symposium, bringing this year the renowned new-media thinker Ted Nelson, and also dozens of lectures by Brazilian and foreign professionals, who will discuss the digital-electronic culture in its relations to art, sciences and technologies.
Posted by richard ting at October 10, 2005, 11:32 AM
October 03, 2005
C-Jump Computer Programming Board Game
Discover fundamentals of computer programming by playing a board game!
C-Jump helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java.
Posted by richard ting at October 03, 2005, 07:20 PM
Blinkx TV To Launch Free IPTV
[via Mediapost]
Blinkx To Launch Free IPTV With Consumer-Generated Content
BLINKX, THE PRIVATELY HELD SEARCH startup, today is expected to release a new service, "my blinkx.tv," which is akin to Internet protocol television, or IPTV. "We see all the IPTV services set to launch and supposedly change the world, but we don't think those services are particularly innovative," said blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake. "IPTV should combine the interactive, customizable experience of the Internet with the seamless way we watch TV."
Chandratillake was referring to companies like SBC and Verizon, both of which are aggressively pursuing IPTV services to offer countless niche and personalized content channels to U.S. consumers.
