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horizon graphs

Posted April 14th, 2009 at 11:30 pm. There are 0 comments.

Horizon graphs allow large amounts of information to be shown in a cramped space with out a loss of resolution. In the examples the time series in the x-axis is maintained while the y-axis information the height, is able to be displayed in a fraction of the height. By segmenting and overlaying the information vertically, and color coding the values where the denser the color the higher the value, comparative analysis of large amounts of data is easy.

Time on the Horizon article from Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter

spectrum of online friendship

Posted April 14th, 2009 at 11:13 pm. There are 0 comments.

Digital technology has affected the number of relationships you can maintain, and the intimacy of those relationships, effectively enabling us to create fans who feel like friends.

Mike Arauz has some wonderful insights on what friendship means when your friends are from the internet. The interesting thing here is that friendships here need not be reciprical, and can exist more as a fan relationship.

In the digital world, none of these behaviors, even dialogue, requires a reciprocal feeling of friendship on your part. I can be your friend without you being my friend.

UPDATE:

Added the below guide to Flirting 2.0 from Kyle Bunch

paint spill

Posted April 13th, 2009 at 2:23 pm. There are 0 comments.

Paint Spill, 2009

Do Not Touch (counterbalanced shelves) fallen down. A can of floor paint used to counter balance one of the shelves burst open and spilt its content on the gallery floor that had recently been painted with the same paint.

Do Not Touch, 2008

minibar

Posted April 8th, 2009 at 7:14 pm. There are 0 comments.

You and your friends can check in with our concierge who’ll provide you with a key to one of our 45 MiNiBAR fridges. Our fridges are stocked with premium quality beverages and snacks. Each MiNiBAR contains all the classics like beer, wine and spirits, as well as a few surprises.

tara donovan

Posted April 8th, 2009 at 7:05 am. There are 0 comments.

Untitled, 2003
Styrofoam Cups, Hot Glue
6′(H) x 20′(W) x 19′ 2″(D)
Ace Gallery New York

Tara Donovan creates large installations with common manufactured materials

psfk conference nyc

Posted April 7th, 2009 at 3:51 pm. There are 13 comments.

This is a collection of notes from the PSFK Conference NYC held on April 2 2009. Many of these notes come directly from my notebook and some were helped along by reading the twitter stream. Its really ugly looking but i’m not writing it down to remember it later- i’m writing it down to remember it now. I may add more to this as I sort through photos and what not. It’s long, so click through if you are interested.

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collective remembering

Posted April 7th, 2009 at 11:15 am. There are 0 comments.

Russell Davies on how the services we use today can serve as a collective family photo album to reminisce about things gone away.

I’m certainly not the first to realise or write about this effect but doing this really struck home how powerful things like Street View and geo-tagged Flickr will be as remembering tools. Not just remembering things you’ve got pictures of, but the things implied and stirred by the pictures. So they’re not just tools for locating yourself or your objects, but for locating your memories and exchanging them with others.

traces of an imaginary affair

Posted April 7th, 2009 at 10:23 am. There are 0 comments.

Highly specialized tools that you can use to add some significant drama to your life.

Traces of an Imaginary Affair designed by Björn Franke is a kit containing a set of nine tools which can be used to create an imaginary affair. These tools leave marks on the body, such as bite marks, carpert burns, bondage marks, love bites, scratches and bruises. In addition, probes of perfume, lipstick and haïr can be applied to either the body or clothes. It was inspired by stories of people who used to fake évidence of victimisation or illnesses to receive attention from others.