Color Forecast [pimkiecolorforecast.com]
I M A G E storytelling found footage remix culture (new) image technology collaborative stuff visualizations artistic research M U S I C
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What’s in a Name? (Part 1) →
An object encounters its image, an object encounters its name. It may be that the image and the name of the object encounter each other.
— Rene Magritte, “Words and Images”1.
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How people’s feelings about the weather, scrobbled from social media data, compares to the actual weather – lovely project by Dutch design studio CLEVER*FRANKE. Full PDF here.
The best weather-related visualization since Nathalie Miebach’s musical sculptures.
Also see Jonathan Harris’s We Feel Fine project, visualizing feelings on the social web.
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excerpt of Crystal World (after J.G.Ballard) / 2006 Ann Lislegaard
2-channel 3D animation video projected on 2 leaning screens, no sound
How to Live Together – 27th São Paulo Biennial (Brazil), 2006
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Faking it (and loving it)
Accidental discovery: Hard shaded distorted geometries lends themselves brilliantly to a bit of Photoshop color trickery. I don’t think I’ve done anything this devious in Photoshop since 1998. It feels like cheating for now, but if I could do it in code it’d be fair game.
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connectogram of healthy brain, averaged from 110 data sets; above
connectogram of Phineas Gage’s brain, under
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collaborative video documentary mix
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“A Californian university has won funding to use advanced facial recognition technology to try to solve the mysteries of some of the world’s most famous works of art.”
“The idea for the experiment came from watching news and detective shows such as CSI which had a constant theme of using advanced computers to recognise unknown faces from murder victims to wanted criminals.”
““It is different using this on art rather than an actual human,” said Rudolph, “But we are trying to test the limits of the technology now and then who knows what advances may happen in the future? This is a fast-moving field.” (Guardian)
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"People who make music on computers don’t realize how powerful the visual element is. Whether you like it or not, your minds starts to think in terms of patterns, because it’s a natural human way to do things, and you start seeing the way drums are lining up on the screen, and it becomes completely instinctive to line them up in a certain way."
Kieran Hebden (via hopscotchlandia)
(via fuckyeahfourtet)
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chartsnthings: Amanda Cox and countrymen chart the Facebook I.P.O. →
On Thursday Facebook had the third-largest I.P.O. ever. In the week leading up it, my colleague Amanda Cox spent some time thinking how to best explain and contextualize this offering to readers. What follows is a series of sketches from Amanda, who shared her project folder with me for this…
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