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Ok, some late night fun. I have animated the little Skype dancer and it now reacts to your microphone. So turn on your volume, restart that hiphop record and make the little man dance!! Beware of the feedbackloop.
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Did you know? The tag (dance) in Skype will bring this little bit too enthousiastic dancer on the screen. Try keep pushing the play button below and the guy will funk of your screen.
Tonight there’s a lecture in Amsterdam about creating movies by using game technology. The so called machinima. Last year the Washington Post wrote an interesting article about the rise of independent film makers using this cheap technology.
The Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum (SMCS) has a current exhibition about the machninima phenomena.
Talking tonight is Freidrich Kirschner an award winning movie maker and editor of the Machinima magazine, he will talk about Machinima, show his movies and a new machina tool based on the Unreal Tournament game.
“Person 2184 is a three part machinima series running inside the game unreal tournament 2004 from epicgames.
It shows strange happenings in an urban environment not very far from here and now.
Gifted people, ubiquitous media and loneliness inside a crowd of people drive the stories behind these short visual tales.
Running inside the game means that you can also download person2184 as a modification to your original game Unreal Tournament 2004 and play the movies in-engine in realtime on your computer.”
Last week I finally convinced myself to create a last.fm account. Last fm is a website where you can listen to really nice music for free. The concept of the website is almost the same as radio only updated to today’s standards.
Based on your user profile or similar-artist-request a desktop player connects to the internet and starts streaming high quality audio. You can tell the player when playing a song if you like or dislike it and it will then automatically update your user profile.
It is still some kind of radiostation so you can’t actually request a song. You can enter the name of an artist and similar music will play. If you’re lucky even something from the requested artist will be played. The really nice thing about Last.fm is that you get to learn a whole lot of new music.
Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall (interactive bluetooth installation) from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.
Yesterday we had the first Eclectro party. As written in the last post I was working on a bluetooth/last.fm application. And it worked :)
The Eclectro Last.fm lovewall is an interactive installation that uses bluetooth to scan for mobile phones. Visitors are asked to change the [...]
Based on Twitterpoll by Erik Borra I made this visualization. The animation is created form filtering tweets on content. If someone says he or she voted for Obama or McCain this information is stored and turned into numbers. This creates an election poll based on tweets.
You can say Twitter is pretty much in favor of [...]
This blog post was written for, and published on the Online Journalism Blog.
The last year has seen social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn updating the design of the homepage to turn it more into a notification page: the homepage as a place where you can see what your friends are doing. Your virtual center of [...]
Painting: Jan van de Heyden - inventor of the fire hose - Fire Amsterdam Town Hall 1690 (translated link)
Two major financial losses have we seen in the last two months. Not because of the credit crunch, but because everything in this digital world is connected.
On the web new information is true until proven false. This [...]
For an interaction designer not using the potential of a medium is horrible. There is this new medium with new a paradigm, new possibilities and you are using it the same way as the old medium. Let’s call it a transition period. McLuhan called it marching backwards into the future.
The value of the transition
For [...]
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