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vveather is by sean salmon. vveather is interesting. vveather is changing. vveather is the same.
I am a User Experience Designer at foursquare.
a spinning beachball of death
RFIDs are beautiful
June 27th, 2008 at 9:40 am 0 comments.
RFIDs are usually hidden from view within a plastic card, an opaque sticker, or our passport. There is quite a bit of unexpected beauty hidden in the physical chips themselves and they project a level of personality where one expects bland functional uniformity. Ping Mag has taken a look at these aesthetic qualities of RFID chips and have classified several specimens with names such as Weather Satellite, Outer Space and Alien Sketchbook, seen above respectivly.
United States in Powerlines
June 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am 0 comments..flickr-photo { border: none } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
tags:map opendtreetmap OSM power grid
ikea comes to brooklyn
June 10th, 2008 at 1:55 pm 0 comments.
I have no commentary on the suitability of the IKEA in Red Hook or its impact on the local neighborhood. I do however like the apartment inside a cardboard box promotion. And appropriately sized.
In Zurich I saw IKEA cabinets walking around to promote a new store.
biggest drawing in the world
May 27th, 2008 at 2:01 pm 0 comments.
[UPDATE: It’s a hoax. ]Artist Erik Nordenankar placed a customized GPS into a travel case and gave it to the nice folks at the shipping company DHL along with some instructions. Upon its return 55 days later the GPS tracklog produced the above drawing. There is a video and of course some prior art at gpsdrawing.com.
what are you doing, you know, more generally
May 21st, 2008 at 1:09 pm 0 comments.
my first post to dawdlr went up today. dawdlr is set up by one of the more interesting people around, Russell Davies who describes it as such:
I’ve tried to make dawdlr way slower than twitter. I reckon most people I know twitter about twice a day, so dawdlr is going to update twice a year. To try and get people to say what they’re doing, you know, more generally.
Its been over six months since I posted. I must have missed last Novembers posting by a few short days.
tags:dawdlr interesting internets slownessbrand tags
May 9th, 2008 at 4:41 pm 0 comments.
Noah Briar has launched a nice project using tags to define brands, where users enter the first word or phrase that comes to mind that they associate with that brand. Once this grows further I can see it as a barometer for a brand’s identity and with some tweaks, such as selectable time frames, a great way to track peoples changing perceptions on a brands identity. The clean simple design is dominated by the perfect-for-this-application tag cloud that brings the most popular terms associated wit hte brand to the fore. Obviously Nike has got the swoosh associated with them in our collective mind.
Tag some brands over at brandtags.net
tags:brands noahbriar tagsplain
May 9th, 2008 at 2:16 pm 0 comments.
The Big Word Project featured plain as the word of the day, which I recently bought for seanaes.com. The Big Word Project seeks to redefine words by allowing users to purchase words, 1$ per letter, and link them to a url – simple. In addition to being a very interesting idea they had some very nice things to say about my work.
tags:ego seanaes.comAs we are all about the simplistic design here at The Big Word Project, Seanaes.com is a shining testament to simple design. His navigation system on his homepage is really unique and his lack of unneccesary clutter allows his impressive work to speak for itself. It is quite appropriate that his site is the new definition of the word ‘Plain‘. Have a look through his projects and be inspired
All Streets
April 30th, 2008 at 8:46 pm 0 comments.
All Streets by Ben Fry shows the landscape that emerges from the act of drawing only the streets in the lower United States. The data is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Tiger data set and created the 26 million road segments that comprise the full image. Stunning.
spider web repair
April 29th, 2008 at 12:22 pm 0 comments.
Artist Nina Katchedourian embarked on a project, as part of her series on uninvited collaborations with nature, where she mended spiderwebs that appeared damaged or incomplete. Using thread and although she worked carefully the repairs did cause extra damage. The spider’s reaction to the unsolicited repairs was great.
tags:art collaboration natureThe morning after the first patch job, I discovered a pile of red threads lying on the ground below the web. At first I assumed the wind had blown them out; on closer inspection it became clear that the spider had repaired the web to perfect condition using its own methods, throwing the threads out in the process. My repairs were always rejected by the spider and discarded, usually during the course of the night, even in webs which looked abandoned.
The Big Word Project
April 19th, 2008 at 1:39 pm 0 comments.
The Big Word Project is redefining words. Search for your word and link it to your website. Your website is then the new definition.
All words in the English dictionary are available. Words cost $1 per letter.
Before today inclement was defined as an adjective meaning“Stormy “. The new definition for inclement is now iamtheweather.com
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