Lego album artwork
Posted: 3 October 2011 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: artwork, lego, music Leave a commentI have loved lego ever since I was a kid and it’s always good to see it used in a creative, unusual way….such as reproducing album covers with it. So check this out – 30 Classic Music Albums Recreated With Lego
Week 4
Posted: 2 October 2011 Filed under: project 52 | Tags: processing, project52 Leave a commentSo this week’s makes use of the Radio 1 Mini Mix podcast (http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio1/r1mix/rss.xml). It takes the first track and uses the beat to draw circles or squares. The colours and level of transparency are also determined by the beat. It takes a while to load so please be patient – you might also want to turn the volume down as it also plays the track 🙂
Week 3
Posted: 25 September 2011 Filed under: project 52 | Tags: processing, project52 Leave a commentThis week’s visualisation uses the poetry of Polly Lovell (http://pollylovellpoems.wordpress.com/feed/). A word is randomly selected from the first poem and in turn is interpreted using 10 photos from flickr. When viewed, try moving the mouse over the images.
Week 2
Posted: 18 September 2011 Filed under: project 52 | Tags: processing, project52 Leave a commentThis week’s visualisation uses NASA’s image of the day (www.nasa.gov/rss/image_of_the_day.rss). It has 12 instances of the image all rotating on the same point to give the impression of a star.
Week 1
Posted: 11 September 2011 Filed under: project 52 | Tags: processing, project52 Leave a commentAfter much consideration I decided to make the first visualisation of our national obsession – the weather. Using the BBC weather feed for Plymouth (http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/0013/Next3DaysRSS.xml), I’m taking the most up-to-date values to feed the sketch. Unfortunately during my testing I noticed the feed isn’t updated as often as I would have liked so it could be displaying the sun when it’s actually tipping down!
QR code on headstone
Posted: 15 July 2011 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: qr code Leave a commentPart of me likes this as an interesting use of technology and of celebrating someone’s life. But at the same time, part of me is saying “huh???” You can make up your own mind – http://mashable.com/2011/07/15/qr-code-tombstone/
Wheels of Steel
Posted: 24 June 2011 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: html5, music Leave a commentThis is another really cool HTML5 site. Wheels of Steel was developed by Scott Schiller who works on Flickr and brings to the online, digital age turntables in your browser. Give it a go and you might just become a superstar dj
Nobody surfs the web anymore
Posted: 14 June 2011 | Author: chris | Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: commentary | Leave a commentHere’s quite an interesting article about how no-one seems to surf anymore. It’s picking up on a talk Steve Rosenbaum gave at Confab 2011. Essentially the argument is because of the sheer volume of data being created, we can only handle pre-curated now, such as RSS feeds, Twitter timelines etc. Not sure I agree as I like to think I ‘surf’ as part of research for my job. I’m not saying I don’t use RSS feeds or other forms of curated data but they’re just part of the sources that I look at. Anyways, read the links and make your own mind up.
http://www.entradista.com/post/6516636415/nobody-surfs-the-web-anymore
http://www.magnify.net/blog/item/3K61WZ2J4WDYZK97/Sleep-Friends-Work-All-Victims-of-Data-Overload-