thing to check out

the ambient orb

apple human interface guidelines

minimal mac from a link on andrew's blog.

some things change by chris pullman.

find research on motion for pilots

natural user interface group. check this out for info about multi touch tables.

search for MT mini prototype.

video of an imaginary holographic 3d creation interface that opens virtual palettes almost anywhere and supports dynamically moving interactions with at least some ability to focus on the tiniest of details. uses motion as part of the interface in amazing ways.

street games enhanced environments that you can play in.

David Small design ecology design that can react to changing environments. Read here about research projects going on at the media lab.

Brian Eno and cybernetics is an article about the influence cybernetics and systems thinking had on Brian Eno's music. he started in a class where his thinking was challenged with group collaborations and rules. from that his approach included open rules-based approaches to his compositions.

Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies cards is a set of cards that encourage people to think differently when they get stuck on a creative (?) project.

police dance

I thought tractor dance was amazing but the police motorcycle dance here is at least as amazing.

self publishing web site

blurb.com a place to self publish books, one book or several. they do photos.

new order, true faith has interesting rotating plane in front of a guy's eyes, in the last few seconds. starts as a vertical plane and ends as a horizontal line. could be a way to connect larger amounts of information onto a source bit.

bldr web site a web site for finding or donating information on making things. check it out.

get stuff

dmi studio 2 from spring 2009.
chrono sync synchronize files across 2 or more computers.
scrivner

Kat's mit class blog

Networked Cultures and Participatory Media: Media City class blog with a lot of good info.

lecture series in the MIT museum on the 3rd floor, room number to come.

Nervous system work-sessions in computational design

weekly work-sessions in sommerville near davis square on tuesday and thursday nights from 7-9.

livescribe smart pen

livescribe smart pen interactive explanation. write, draw, take notes just like you would with a regular pen, then upload it all into your computer via USB.

amazing interactive graphic

how americans spend their day. the graph is funky and the transitions are amazing. you understand some of the differences by those smooth transitions. awesome.

colorburned

Colorburned web site where you can get brushes, vectors, tutorials and other tools for designers.

video projection on buildings- how fun is that?

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

savant art gallery

savant gallery has impressive ideas from people who create taxonomies, make connections between things, remember through their own processes.