Author: Joel

I’ve noticed the trend of Environment Sampling recently.

Peder Norrby is the man behind the flickr album and the founder of Trapcode. I’ve always wanted to do environment sampling in the real world – projecting cities on to forests or waterfalls onto skyscrapers.

Coudal Partners have been doing similar things, but transporting the night sky.

People are making collaborative books on GitHub now.

An Illusion House in London that samples the very local environment.

More tracking of movement through WiFi – “WiVi”.

More brilliance from the team at Marshmallow Laser Feast. I’m sure they were under alot of pressure to do another “pretty thing with drones and lasers”, but they did a brilliant collaboration with Richard Dawkins instead – still with some lasers though. Natch.

Earth Engine, from Google. Just like when I used to play SimCity or Civilisation at maximum speed.

Ryan Holiday smashing modern media.

Via Jamie Smart, London in the 20’s:

Tom Carden notes how he’s moving from C++ to JS. From Cinder to Ember:

How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists.

Edge reviews Proteus. I can’t wait to play this. Different every time, but still designed.

Tim Cook on Leadership.

Interesting discussion in the latest issue of Port about magazines. I’ve always been interested in thinking of a magazine as a platform. I always remember the window onto the world that The Face and i-D and Dazed&Confused gave me when I was growing up on a mountain in Wales – and the looks I got in the Post Office when I picked up my “funny magazines”. That feeling of having, or wanting to wait is gone forever.

The Virtuix Omni is a peripheral that allows you run and move more naturally when exploring a virtual environment.

The Anki Drive allows you to race against real toy cars.

Photek interview from 96 via Run Dem Crew.

Was Machiavelli actually a satirist?

Chris Hadfield’s post landing interview:

Wifi is a usable sensing platform for gesture recognition throughout your house.

Also including works by Marius Watz, Joshua Davis, Kyle Mcdonald and Casey Reas.

Berg have launched Sandbox:

Sandbox — for institutions and companies to figure out what connected products mean for them.

Remix your JPG’s online with the HEADer_REMIX.

Machine learning for unlabelled images in Google+. What will Google do with this next? Imagine searching by content of images – or for the photo with the big yellow flower. Research paper on the subject. 

Glam Media Is Huge! Bigger than Wikipedia or Apple. The only Internet properties with more US users are Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Yahoo.

Via Mary Meacher’s Internet Trends. Glam Media was partially founded by Susan Kare, creator of all the Apple Macintosh’s most iconic(?) icons.

Dropcam lets you just start streaming video. Broadcast is changing.

Using Constraint Programming to solve an xkcd comic.

You can make a Stormtrooper of yourself.

The New Yorker has made Strongbox – a way of securely submitting information to their journalists.

Being diagnosed as being Dyspraxic and Dyslexic while I was at the Royal College of Art was one of the most significant moments of my life. An interesting article on Neurodiversity.

Can the New York Times save itself by making new ways of telling stories?

I’d love to meditate using binocular video streaming. Imagine orienteering with such a system? Or a game of it? A team game?

Airware is raising cash:

And building the software and hardware to enable to people to come up with new applications.

Pete Mackenzie sends two videos, A drone that uses sonar to sense:

and another:

Sarah Bates sends a lovely film of downhill skating:

And Irish Folk Furniture:

 Controversy around D-Wave continues.

Viking Squad sounds like the raddest Police Unit ever. Imagine a Viking Squad buddy cop movie? Iceland certainly seems to have a very low rate of violent crime.

If This Then That keeps on gathering more and more awesome.

Tom Scott detailing all the LIES on the London Underground.