http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress About Art, Media and Technology and the future of it Tue, 13 May 2008 06:12:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Eclectro Directo: RGBoy live concert from Jan Dybala JD Video on Vimeo. Once a month we organize a webcast at Eclectro. We use the website Ustream to broadcast a DJ-set or concert live from the DJ his living-room. All the DJ needs is a computer, webcam and internet connection. Last friday the ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/05/07/rgboy-performing-live-eclectro/ Justice - Stress from Freedom Record on Vimeo. Romain Gavras made this amazing new clip for the track Stress by French band Justice. The clip is about youth in the French suburbs and how violence has become a way of life. The video is shot documentary style and shocking realistic (high ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/05/05/videoclip-justice-stress/ Photo from this blog post by Michael Shanks We have always collected things. Somehow making collections is valuable to us. Most of the media we are collecting is moving or has moved to a virtual representation. Music is moving to the web, video and games will. And I'm sure books will ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/04/23/we-collect/ 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 ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/04/11/thoughts-about-a-news-algorithm/ 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 ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/04/05/relevancy-the-first-experience-sucks/ Diggnation live recording with fake mustaches Photo by Anne Helmond (on Flickr) Today I visited the Next Web conference in Amsterdam. This conference is a two day event about the near future of the web. Unfortunately I won't be there tomorrow, but with these conferences this isn't really a problem. There ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/04/03/the-next-web-2008-day-1/ 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 ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/03/22/the-news-article-as-an-object/ Last night I made my first iPhone website. The iPhone has a full Safari browser, but you can also use some iPhone specific styling to make a website better accessible on an iPhone. Today we connected the stylesheet to the EN database making the EN newssite available on the iPhone ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/03/18/my-first-iphone-newswebsite/ 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 ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/03/13/reinventing-the-news-website/ Infosthetics writes about the game audio-surf a racing game where the song you pick decides the course and speed of the game. This game uses rhythm as an extra navigation layer. Music is build from small loops and these loops are easy to learn and predictable, making it possible to ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/03/04/how-games-use-audio-to-challenge-us-more/ Frozen (on Flickr) Last week I went snowboarding in the popular Val Thorens, France (2300/3300m) and took my camera. This rock holds a glacier (on Flickr) The Street During the week I photographed the street several times from our apartment on the 6th floor. I don't know why, I just liked the top shot ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/03/02/back-from-the-snow/ 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 ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/22/interactive-storytelling-experiment-2-the-urban-areas-of-tomorrow/ Today I experimented with the Flicrk API. An API is an external programmable interface that connects to a database, it allows external developers to access the content in the database. In this case I can access the photos on Flickr by using a free license (API-key). 2.269.526.982 photos Everyday millions of photos ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/16/storytelling-with-the-flickr-api/ Last week I made the Aphextwinalizer, a Flash gimmick that uses your webcam to show your photo on the cover of your favorite record. I made it as an experiment. It didn't take long and I wanted to experiment with Flash, webcams and screenshots. A colleague had seen the experiment and ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/16/your-experiments-are-valuable/ What are you doing? Is the simple question twitter asks you In July 2007 Edward Mischaud (at that time student Politics and Communication) asked me - and other random selected users - a few questions about how we use Twitter. His goal was to find out if Twitter users actually answer ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/13/a-msc-research-on-the-one-thing-twitter-asks-what-are-you-doing/ Jonathan Harris has a very impressive portfolio with interactive projects. He's an interactive storyteller and great visualizer. Last year I visited his talk at Picnic where he talked about his new project 'The Whale Hunt'. Today I discovered the project is public. In May 2007 Jonathan lived for nine days with ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/12/interactive-storytelling-the-whale-hunt-by-jonathan-harris/ Last week the BUMA - a company that collects money and pays musicians for their airplay - started sending Dutch non-profit blogs a notion (in Dutch) that they were violating BUMA-rules because they embedded YouTube videos. Blogs are re-broadcasting the material (even through an embed) and thus they have to ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/11/are-we-all-broadcasters/ In Polling Places the New York Times asks readers to send photos from places where they vote. It makes exciting photo journalism. Not just the individual photos, but the collection is very interesting. Digital cameras are almost omnipresent. If you - as the provider - make the goals of a ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/05/the-new-york-times-presents-the-polling-places-project/ I like how easy it is to control a webcam inside flash. A lot of people have a webcam and the flash plugin so you can easily use it for a project or website. I already did a few experiments with webcams. Fade in- fade out, when you stop moving you will ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/just-having-fun-with-flash-and-a-webcam-the-result-aphextwinalize-me/ Hypernarrative has a catagory about interactive storytelling. Well the send.a.message project couldn't be more about interactive storytelling. You send a message through the website, for €30,- a Palestinian sprays your tag on the West Bank Barrier and sends you in return the photos of your text on the wall. I don't ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/02/01/interactive-storytelling-ask-a-palestinian-to-write-your-message-on-the-west-bank-barrier/ Since the record music can be played everywhere without actually having to transfer the musician. This changed how we consumed music. A complete industry was build around transferable music, the 'record industry'. The web is not just a network connecting computers anymore. The web is a virtual layer of information accessible ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/01/29/why-google-has-everything-it-needs-to-disrupt-the-music-business/ In the book Massive Change, Bruce Mau and Jennifer Leonard focus on Urban sprawl and a so called tipping point. The year 2006 was the tipping point in how we live. From 2006 on half of the world population will live in cities. Cities grow together creating so called urban ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/the-future-is-in-our-cities/ Eclectro is a website about music. Having a calendar is a great service for such a website. It is often a popular service, but unfortunately also a very labour intensive one. When searching the web to find an easy way to solve this problem I noticed the solution could be ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/01/22/building-a-party-calendar-with-lastfm-yahoo-pipes-and-google-calendar/ For a few months I'm using Gmail as my default e-mail client. It was actually the iMAP functionality that really convinced me to start using it. iMAP allows you to keep using your default e-mail application and at the same time you can also use your mobile phone or webmail. ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/01/21/how-a-personalized-design-improves-public-interfaces/ The care for earth as our only habitat, source of food and storage for waste did get our attention over the last years. And as with every major cultural or political movement it had effect on visual culture as well. We look at the earth as a magic, fragile object. ... http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/01/15/the-effect-of-global-warming-on-interface-design/