I could keep on scanning all night. A lot to catch up with. Although my brother is landing in half an hour, and it´s time for a brotherly weekend.
New York does not reply. But I still hope.
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Monthly Archive for January, 2010
Exploring Prague with misses mariposa. We were both fascinated about being in a new culture, and making the best of the little time we had there. Scanning more as I speak.
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A delicate compilation of visualizations by Kunal Anand. A great example of how gradients may enhance a visual landscape, and not the least what potential is in code.
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on my way to work today :) she did not even notice me.
today´s learning: whenever you write about somebody, they are the first person you meet next day. you happen to be late because you were up very late. odd.
don´t talk to chinese people about chinese noodles being thick, they won´t pronounce it right. auch
whenever you do not bring your film camera wherever, you most likely will see something of a very particular nature. regrets. kid over 2.20 meters. with semi midgety friends.
so this afternoon i finally found the time to deliver some of my films to a lab; they should be ready by wednesday. the whole waiting thing does something to your body.
very well then, it´s time to read a book :)
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A crazy long and content-rich day today. Supporting on photography for videomaking and stills. The unexpected things happen. I stress. There´s wine. It helps. I´m overwhelmed. Meeting people who have 1 million followers on twitter. Well, maybe that says enough. (it need not implicate so by default, but in this case i do believe so) Persons that have an impact. And little me comes in and gears up for some interviews. I get a bit intimidated. But the videos turned out pretty good in the end.
Got to greet the CEO of IDEO which is a very big thing for me. I am honored to have this chance (despite that they did not give me a seat for the dinner, but that´s ok). Short entry for now.
by the way, i don´t despise the 5dm2, it´s just that it´s not discreet in sound or size. have a video of this, want to play with that one day.
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She and her heart. That was such a good walk. Place and time were of no significance. There was barely another soul crossing our paths.
Northern Sweden / summer of 2009
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If you do not know me personally, well I can tell you that I am a student of interaction design; this means I am interested in the realms of the future and how we deal with digital technology. Naturally there will be some posts in here that concern this field of interaction design, but only because it is interesting, and we may benefit in learning from it. There is too much going on, if I don´t keep a track of any of it I will become a dinosaur.
Light Blue Optics have publicized a teaser of sorts of a technology worth becoming familiar with. Now that the transportation industry is implementing head up display systems on glass, prone to restrictiveness of information abundance, here is a version of the same technology applied to domestic surfaces. The difference is, well the mobility it seems. Considering the context in this exhibition display it is not as mobile as they´d like to show in their glossy/photoshopped renders, although this is fresh new so who of us knows, where the next step is.
“Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.
Light Touch™ has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP™) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality video images in WVGA resolution. Integrated infrared sensors detect motion and turn the projected image into a 10.1″ virtual touch screen, so the user can control the projector and interact with applications simply by touching the image.”
They illustrate the concept of HLP further on their website.
I found this via itsnicethat, a good blog source for covering the creative industry. It´s not flashy and it´s quick and simple. I like that.
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Finding music on the web is like going to a zoo as a kid – and wandering this universe by yourself. You want to hear/see every different kind of touch. Unguided you might end up with looking at the same animals for too long. I am doing this though for discovery. I have long wanted to share my taste, because you might as well discover something with me. What interests me as much as the music is usually how the visual language of the albums and material accompanied with it perform/act/speak. For this occasion though I might drop that and allow that more for single features. This time a variety of music that not necessarily is the freshest, but which simply is my discovery for the month of January. And if succesfully it fits the mood of this time. So let´s kick this off:
1. Bon Iver – Stacks (Thomas Barfod Remix)
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2. Lindstrøm and Christabelle – Baby Can´t Stop (Aeorplane Remix 128)
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3a.Lusine – twodots
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3b.Lusine – Still Frame remix 128
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3c. Lisine – Twilight
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4. Apparat- Komponent (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix 128)
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5. Vibrasphere- tierra azul
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6. The xx – Basic Space 128
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7. Casino Versus Japan – Blue Vacation Part 1
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8. Byrne and Brian Eno – Strange Overtones
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Further ado on this tracks
1. According to his myspace Thomas Barfod looks to be somewhat of a figure in Danish festivals and electro labels. The whole thing of posting music online is propelled/driven by the fact that people are remixing originals. Sometimes I think it goes overboard and there is a fine line between credit theft, but inasmuch as I cannot claim a big bite of knowledge on music production I will leave my hat off and appreciate the fact that music is being promoted, it should be credited and the more it gets appreciated this should aggregate the salesforce supporting the artist.
In this case the remix is of Bon Iver, a name that swims much around the music sea, some name I´d have connoted with traditional without having been an eager listener of him, but in this remix comination of danish ´pump refining´it falls of as pretty good stuff.
2. Oslo fronting Lindstrom (short bio) twinkled with some Belgic Aeroplane culminates into this energetic track. Looks like Aeroplane is touring all over Australia the next months, it´s that summer hipster wave going on. This tracks has got attitude, swirling vocals, synth : a crossover between kid´s computer game world and fearless feminity fronting it.
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3.An impressive sound portfolio made this producer stand out. Lusine has played in Fabric London, and is currently working on the soundtrack for some feature film from what I read. If you are curious there is a short bio on the ghostly website, which is his label. Very pleasant!
4. Berlin based Apparat opens up for a downtempo vocal infused track. I recognize his music from some GU labels, there is something about the vocals that is so desperate, yet so unworrying. I have a hard time to describe it, what I do know is that it is not cliche.
For the geeks, he works with his own tool created in MAX/MSP framework. Effects are controlled by midicontroller.
5. Uppsala duo vibrasphere deliver some trancy but interesting tune here.6. I could not find much info on these guys, but they seem to have a crazy world tour in front of them.
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Fuji Provia 400. January 2009. Photoshoot with my friend Lars. A prolonged entry with his album and the work soon. . .