When in doubt, I always return to Richard Slaughter.
These days I’ve been collecting insights around the Future of Sound. And to frame the discussion about how do we think the future will be, and how does technology affect our human behavior, I’m using some of his frameworks and processes.
I’ve always loved Imogen Heap, but this is at another level!!!
Love love love this glove and can’t wait to play with them!
I think this service is great! It synchs with your calendar and sends you information about the people you are just about to meet. So that you’re prepared before talking to them.
(via Refresh App - An Instant Dossier to Refresh Your Relationships)
What happens when the quest for teenage identity occurs online? Watch Douglas Rushkoff documentary: Generation “Like” on Frontline.
Tools for urban transformation, workshop imparted by Chris Woebken via Laboratorio para la Ciudad, Mexico.
Seventh Sense (Excerpt) / 第七感官 (五分鐘版) (by 舞蹈劇場安娜琪)
This is one of the most amazing live performances I’ve seen! Defies time and space and every dimension. The improvisational dance in contrast with the hyper modern projection mapping is superbly executed!
KINECT | PROJECTOR DANCE (by PrinceMio)
Yesterday, Carson and I did our first motion sensor art installation. We projected a point cloud demo of the visual field of the table at a dinner we hosted for MIT Media Lab. This was for sure an inspiration for us. And this is just the beginning of a new period of our creative practice, where we are starting to play with motion sensors, wearable technology, kinnect, led lights…
How would you cure someone if they were addicted to the internet? Or best, how would you know by yourself if you were addicted to the internet?can you cure yourself?
In this short documentary, we see that China declared in 2008 that internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Here a bootcamp-style treatment center for young men addicted to video games.
But this video and the movie ‘Her’ (see next post about the guy that falls in love with her operating system - virtual assistant) have left me with the question on what to do after knowing you’ve spent too much time behind the computer and it might be affecting your cognitive and social skills? In the metro, in the bus stop, in the airport, I look around and everyone is lonely, looking at their screens. In all the coffee shops, everyone is behind a laptop or with a tablet. Babies with cell phones. Nannies with ipods.
Is this solitude time an opportunity to go within? to learn? to expand? to connect? to create? to discuss?
Can you identify when your mind wanders so much that you don’t know where your thoughts are? why are you reading this? why are you watching this video? is this something you planned on doing or did you stumbled into this as all the other hundreds of unimportant facts you find?
via Pedro Reyes by the New York Times
