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I love the magically mundane virtual real world of Google Streetview, and like others I’ve longed for my 15 frames of blurry low-res Street View fame. So I’ve been wondering, how can I get into Street View without having to stalk the car … Continue reading
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The diversified curiosities of creative people indicates that there is more to the world than things that run on batteries and connect to the Internet and San Franciscoans fuss over in front of bearded baristas. I celebrate this diversity by … Continue reading
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<img src="“/> Judge not the less yammer-y state of the studio blog to indicate that there is nothing worth yammering about. It’s just that the clang of steel caressing code has been going on and that in great measure, too. … Continue reading
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One of a sample of “Destination Maps” presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 by a team of researchers. It shows a computer-generated emulation of the canonical napkin-style hand-drawn map. The described advantages are that it highlights relevant “neighborhood” streets and diminishes … Continue reading
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Since the *winter holidays here in Los Angeles, which is a strange thing for an East Coast boy, especially as I hear reports of epic dumps of man-killing snow in New York City, my favorite photography spot has been the … Continue reading
Nokia is a gigantic battleship, and in some of that ship’s little corners, quite intriguing things happen that are quite consistent with the sensibilities of play, exploration and making new meanings, and especially inverting existing assumptions or retracing histories. I … Continue reading
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The new-to-me Nintendo DS “Personal Trainer Walking” (heck of a name..) alongside of the Japanese language game whose name I forget and cannot read. I found out about this Nintendo DS game from Kevin who found out about it from … Continue reading
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Conflux is having their 6th annual Conflux Festival! The deadline for submissions is soon — August 15th. At last year’s Conflux we brought our “Drift Deck” technology and had a swell time! Several years back, we did WiFiKu — we … Continue reading
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From the Laboratory’s Bureau of Historical Precedence comes this dispatch: A colleague here in the studio, in a thread about Jeremy Wood’s GPS Drawing mentioned this ChalkBot robot that Nike has deployed to help promote, well — cancer awareness with … Continue reading
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Times Square beach, complete with tourists (as any beach should), found here. Urban Lounge found near Madison Square, New York City. This is probably old hat for current New Yorkers certainly, and something that makes visits home really interesting, these … Continue reading
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Lines and arrows and splines point the way. Taken in a parking lot near the beaches at Santa Monica. It has not been a quiet couple of days here in the Laboratory. Lots of gear and glassware about. Goggles, bunsen … Continue reading
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Ian Bogost‘s and his Persuasive Games operation have introduced an iPhone game called JetSet — a curious little gem that situates specific locations as the enforced zone for game play. Very interesting play mechanic — a location-based game that you … Continue reading