neonspice's db-db blog (Set i)

Fragmentr

neonspice (neonspice) — 2011-05-25 11:09:53

Fragmentr is a “collaborative image remixing site” designed by Ryan Weafer. It’s also a “living archive. When you generate a permalink it displays a range of images that shuffle randomly.”... - Link

Japan: Robot Nation

neonspice (neonspice) — 2009-10-19 19:12:46

Japan, the world's second largest economy, is facing a demographic crisis that will shrink the population dramatically. The Japanese aren't having babies, and the country won't accept immigrants to help bolster the population. But Japan may have a unique solution --- Robots!... - Link

Dialtones: A Telesymphony

Nelson Ng (neonspice) — 2009-10-17 15:31:50

Dialtones (A Telesymphony) is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience’s own mobile phones. Before the concert, participants register their mobile phone numbers at a series of web terminals; in exchange, new ringtone melodies are automatically transmitted to their phones, and their seating assignment tickets are generated. During the concert, the audience’s phones are dialed up by live performers, using custom ... - Link

Flong

Nelson Ng (neonspice) — 2009-10-17 15:29:57

This is the web site of Golan Levin, an artist and educator living in Pittsburgh. I teach at Carnegie Mellon University, where I also direct the Studio for Creative Inquiry. I create interactive artifacts and experiences with a variety of collaborators. I also publish writings, and I keep a blog.... - Link

Lemonade movie

Nelson Ng (neonspice) — 2009-08-18 10:57:02

More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this Great Recession. Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives.... - Link

Social Networking Tools and our Future Society

neonspice (neonspice) — 2009-07-23 13:13:18

In The Smooth and the Striated, Delueze and Guattari talk of the constant shift from striated space to smooth space and back. Neither space can exist on its own, and one continually sets the stage for the other to spring up from within it. A rational, gridded city as an example of the striated, will always have in it the smooth space of organic neighbourhood growth, community groups and homeless drifters. The internet first serving as a point-A-to-B information exchange route (point-to-point mov... - Link

Memo Atken

neonspice (neonspice) — 2009-07-16 14:25:59

I like drinking water, especially when I'm really thirsty. Sometimes I like to pretend to be an Olenellus fremonti evolving into an Olenellus mohavensis, simply for the creative stimulation - although I usually cant walk for days afterwards. I've recently taken up an interest in amateur brain surgery, although i find it so hard to find volunteers. I enjoy socializing; but am equally happy with my own company; and can easily keep myself entertained for hours, both mentally and sexually. I'm fasci... - Link