Interface experiments for a new live report
Topics: Interactive Video, Live Web, On the Web
Over the last few years I’ve worked on different live reports for different kind of festivals. I like what you can make with (almost) realtime information based on the API’s of other services. For the Urban Explorers festival in May this year I started working on a new interface.
The amount of aggregated information can be overwhelming for people, so I’m looking at how can you keep it understandable for new visitors. Or in the case of Urban Explorers for people who never visited or will never visit the festival. UE is a music and art festival that takes place in different venues in the city of Dordrecht.
Blip API
The idea is to start working with the Blip API. And cover the festival with an interface that only shows video. There will be Twitter coverage and blog posts, but the idea is to create a narrative that can be sorted based on people, performances and maybe venues.
I haven’t exactly figured out what it should look like, but just started to make some interfaces to see what works and what doesn’t. I you have ideas or great examples, please share them in the comments.
Last week the Next Web conference was organized in the Netherlands. This tech conference generates a lot of online media like tagged twitter messages. And was a perfect try-out for working with streaming video and twitter. I combined some old scripts and designs and made http://www.wilbertbaan.nl/thenexthack.
The Next Hack from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.
The Next Web live video + tweets experiment – Yunoo presentation from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.
I looked at a full screen interface that could work in a pop-up or fill your entire screen. It looks a bit like my old videoblog (http://www.hypernarrative.com/videoblog/index.html). I like these type of interfaces for live events because they are more experience based (click on what you see) instead of search based (like youtube).
Interface Experiment 1 from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.
I started moving the video, since all tag result pages will give different amount of results the blocked interface looks nice, but it has limits in what it can show. And it looks weird if you haven’t got enough video to fill the entire interface. Both interfaces below are completely dynamic and can show only one item or 30.
Interface Experiment 2 from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.
Interface Experiment 3 from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.
I just make interfaces
It’s amazing that all those examples are made on top of infrastructure of other people. Blip is perfect because multiple people can send video using a mobile phone and I can get the source files from the server using the Blip API. It’s pretty weird how much difference you can make with only interfaces.
Last.fm Lovewall
Last year I made the Last.fm lovewall. A bluetooth based installation that matches people based on Last.fm data. This installation or something different build on this technology might find a spot at the festival as well.
Eclectro Last.fm Lovewall (interactive bluetooth installation) from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.
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May 5 2009 @ 2:29 pm
Hoi Wilbert,
Momenteel ben ik bezig met een afstudeer project voor mijn Masters. Het project wordt een combinatie wordt van straat theater en interactieve media. Dit project zal gaan draaien op het TodaysArt Festival 2009. De motor van het project wordt de live registratie vanuit de bezoeker.
Nuttig om in conversatie te raken lijkt me. Naar welk mail adress kan ik je mailen? Voor verdere uitleg.
Groetjes,Beer.
May 6 2009 @ 7:10 am
Klinkt zeker interessant, leuk. Je kunt mij mailen op wilbert apenstaart hypernarrative.com
May 6 2009 @ 8:32 am
Hi Wilbert, you have to look this video design, it may be inspiring or useful for your newest experiment
http://www.inuminstantetudomuda.com/#/home
BTW, i’m part of the organizational committee behind Glocal: Inside Social Media, Conference in Skopje, Macedonia, you may be interested. We have just rolled out the CfP (info – here http://glocalconference.com/) sorry for partly off topic comment, you may delete this part.
May 6 2009 @ 10:21 am
Thanks for the inuminstantetudomuda.com example. The interface looks really nice.
I also made a test with full screen video, but this didn’t work out very well with the quality mobile video uploads are, too bad. I really like full browser video.
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Never mind topics :) off topic comments are very welcome. Feel free to promote what you’re doing. It looks interesting.
May 6 2009 @ 4:48 pm
I was more fascinated by the inside page design. Although it could be again difficult for your task ;)
http://www.filedropper.com/numinstantetudomuda
http://www.filedropper.com/numinstantetudomuda2
May 14 2009 @ 11:08 am
Work in progress
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May 19 2009 @ 9:59 am
More work in progress
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May 24 2009 @ 4:42 pm
The interface will be full screen, almost done.
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June 7 2009 @ 8:12 pm
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April 22 2009 @ 1:48 pm
Interface experiments for a new live report http://tinyurl.com/cxuclo
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April 22 2009 @ 5:29 pm
Is de laatste dagen wat aan het klooien geweest met de Blip API en video interfaces voor Urban Explorers 2009 http://twurl.nl/r0eo2z
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April 23 2009 @ 1:05 pm
Interface experiments for a new live report on hypernarrative.com, weblog by Wilbert Baan about Art, Media and Technology http://ow.ly/3F8R
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May 6 2009 @ 10:20 am
deliciuos: Interface experiments for a new live report on hypernarrative.com http://tinyurl.com/cxuclo
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