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You can also find me blogging at the electronic music blog eclectro.nl and journalism blog onlinejournalismblog.com.
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Hi, hypernarrative is a blog by Wilbert Baan about Art, Media and Technology with a focus on interactive storytelling. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed with Google or Netvibes. I'll post a few messages a week. Thanks for visiting!
Videoclips, games, internet, instant messaging… When politicians talk about games (The Daily Show / YouTube).
18 Yellow cards, 4 red, Netherlands (0) - Portugal (1), FC de Unie, Nighttown Rotterdam. VJ’s, DJ’s and special guests, FC de Unie will be back in two years.
This video on your blog? Videoblog: all Medialandschap video by Wilbert
To play the video Flash 8 is required.
Three weeks ago we were in Paris visiting Morphosis, Continuities of the Incomplete an exposition in Centre Pompidou featuring sixteen of Morphosis current projects. On a platform of aluminium and glass you’re standing above sketches, models, videos and projections. Below your feed interviews are played with Thom Mayne talking about urban space and planning. There was this great interview in the back of a taxi. I can’t find it online. If anyone knows where to find it, let me know. I found this interview on Google video.
The exposition will end july 17th.
A while ago I started experimenting with interactivity and webcams for an installation. The movie below is a little spin-off from the thing I’m experimenting with.
The script detects color change in the top of the image. In daylight this works almost similar to motion detection. In this version the screen will display the VK.tv logo popping up next to your head.
You need a webcam and Flash version 8 to play with this toy. Flash 8 is also required to view the video.
No webcam available? Click the screen below to play a recorded version.
Last week I was reading a Wired article (March edition) about how the video rental service Netflix is awarding $1.000.000 to the person or group who can improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%. Todays popular websites use smart algorithms to determine what we want or might like. Google is famous for its mix and so is [...]
At the Next Web conference there was an overall urge for relevancy. You noticed it in presentations and startups. Unfortunately there weren’t many speakers that had exiting answers. In his presentation Robert Scoble made clear that for most new web applications ‘The first experience sucks‘. Why? This is inherent to how these new web applications work. The [...]
Since we started with the concept of EN we had a certain idea of what it would be like. Now we have the first working version the possibilities seem endless, but what is the killer application or function? What is it that gives new options to the things we do with news? In this post I’m [...]
EN.nl (and.nl) is a new project where we are experimenting with new media, users, technology and journalism. This project is an open project where the public process plays an extremely valuable part in designing and shaping the news website. The online news industry really changed over the last years. I think we’re at a point where [...]
Last week I did an experiment with a linear story and loading photos from Flickr. This week I made a second experiment using the same code and adding a map. I will try to tell a second story. About the story This story is about how fast urban areas are growing. These growing areas aren’t in the [...]
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