several social media sites are offering ‘year in review’ options such as the twitter one using a service called vizify (also for facebook etc.) which aggregates data such as how repetitive you are with certain terms or who your best follower is and various other factoids you really don’t need to know… on a similar note the big internet museum opened it’s doors this week…
it is hard to imagine what it is like being in a heavy bombing raid unless you have been there yourself i guess
my dad was evacuated from london as a child and like many of his generation spent the worst part of the blitz on london living in the countryside, this infographic mapping the bomb sites street for street gives a pretty vivid feel of the enormity of the situation… especially when you pull back and see how many bombs there were in total; the city literally disappears behind red dots..
(via the guardian)
one from the archives today: a poster for an exhibition (from 7 years ago) about all kinds of mobile phone art, yes we did steal the ‘playmobil’ logo and no they didn’t sue us…
the poster featured a ‘shotcode’ which was probably one of the first posters to do so, and last… the technology which was a forerunner to QR codes didn’t quite make it, as QR codes also haven’t of course…
i promised several people that i would post a list of the stuff i mentioned last week at the ‘papier hier’ talk and here it is, probably a meaningless list of websites unless you were there, the topic was ‘tactile’ and these are some of the people and projects i spoke about in that context…
‘boven kamers’ book by moon brouwer
‘happy faces’ by dennis van gaalen
posters from sergio alves
the wonderful toaster project by thomas thwaites
the austria solar annual report
underwater images by alberto seveso
fictional film sets by daniel agdag
tactile photography dan tobin smith
tactile photography bela borsodi
swiss artist ‘bernard voïta’ (hard to find, google him…)
swiss artist felice varini
human trees by jody xiong
string art from gabriel dawe
toilet roll art from junior fritz jacquet
tactile typography by marian bantjes
intricate layouts and paper objects from peter nencini
nail art chen chun hao (or google him)
nail art goshka macuga
‘balancing blocks’ short by part & parcel
‘bag charms’ by christian borstlap
‘frictions’ short by steven briand
and here above is me together with mister ian wright whom i certainly would have mentioned in my talk, except that he was already invited as a guest speaker that day…
(image above courtesy of ‘willie kerkhof’)