Keeping in contact, avoiding cowboy plumbershttp://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/Design-Council/3/Design-Council-Magazine/Design-Council-Magazine-issue-3/Social-networking/The functions social networking best supports are, in a nutshell or seven:
Sensity by stanza....2004 - 2008. A series of artworks based on sensing the environment. Sensing the
www.stanza.co.uk/sensity/index.html  Absolut soundmachine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e9AJVtuCKc
Absolut Machines is Absolut's promotional initiative that explores where technology meets design in the form of two "machines." Last night we got to check out one, the Absolut Quartet, an interactive multi-instrumental robotic machine. It consists of a marimba played by rubber balls precisely shot from a robotic cannon, a series of spinning wineglasses dampened by robotic fingers and an array of percussive instruments. Bloom
Iphone with Brian Eno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e9AJVtuCKc
Brian Eno, the father of ambient music and one of the greatest musical minds of our time, has just teamed up with musician/programmer Peter Chilvers to create one of the coolest, most unique iPhone apps to hit the App Store yet. Called Bloom, it's "part instrument, part composition and part artwork." It's also a must-get. Unlike most music-creation apps, it doesn't take an existing musical instrument and cram it awkwardly into the iPhone's interface. Instead, it creates a completely new "instrument" designed specifically for the iPhone. Essentially, you're provided with a colored screen and a quiet drone. As you tap the screen in various places, different tones play depending on where you tapped. They then loop, creating a unique piece of music on the fly, one that changes gradually on its own once you stop tapping.  An interactive data visualization of the top 8 banks in the US, & their mortgages that are 90+ days late & their total charged off ("write down") mortgages, based on FDIC data. the first of two charts, which both resemble the animation techniques introduced byGapminder, shows that most of the banks are keeping their 90+ day lates under control, at least up until the end of Q4 2007. the second graph, demonstrates that after Q2 2007, everything starts decaying in a hurry. Visual poetry
http://www.esono.com/boris/projects/poetry06/visualpoetry06/index.html
infographic storytelling
wetellstories.co.uk  A infographic snapshot of contemporary teen life & the new media world, created by Matt Mason ('The Pirate's Dilemma') & Nicholas Felton (known from the yearly 'Felton Personal Annual Report'). biggest drawing in the world
US gas price temperature map
gasbuddy.com
An interactive geographic map conveying the relative gas prices within the US. areas are color coded according to their price for the average price for regular unleaded gasoline. there is also a map for Canada. wordle elegant word clouds
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/06/wordle_elegant_word_clouds.html
Air pollution helium ballon
aerophile.com
A giant tethered helium balloon that displays real-time reports of atmospheric pollution by a colorful lighting system, which can be seen from more than 20 km (12.4 miles) away. the balloon's color signifies the ambient air quality using 3 projectors that are located in the middle of the balloon. for example, red signifies highly polluted air, orange for polluted, yellow for moderate, light green for clean, & green for very clean. Olympic medal bubble chart
nytimes.com  a time-based bubble chart of the number of past olympic medals won by countries. circles are mapped on a geographical world map or can be ranked by size. the circle size is determined by the number of medals each country won in past summer Olympic Games. Lego-based time-tracking
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genome quilts
genomequilts.com|
 a website dedicated to the tracking of political news during the last 100 days before the 2008 US General Election. the simple frequency graph represents the number of references to Obama vs McCain mentioned in recent news articles by day, quite similar to a traditional population pyramid. participative physical bar charts
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/09/participative_physical_bar_charts.html
RGB Music LAB
A downloadable application that converts the RGB (Red, Green & Blue) values of an image to chromatic scale sounds. the program reads RGB value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of an image. 1 pixel makes a harmony of three note of RGB value, & the length of note is determined by brightness of the pixel. "it is not an impression of paintings or photographs of a composer. it reads a score from an image data directly.
Railpassengers
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=30 
In 2003 2.2 trillion kilometres were travelled by train passengers. Of this total a fifth were in India, a fifth were in China, and a tenth were in Japan. The world average for the number of kilometres travelled by people per year by train is 358 kilometres each. The unevenness of the real distribution of kilometres travelled is highlighted by the fact that 64 territories (out of 200) do not have a rail system. At the other extreme, an average of 1876 kilometres are travelled by train each year by every person who lives in Japan. Graphic equalizer
http://vimeo.com/1105462?pg=embed&sec=1105462  Self-initiated stop-frame animation project. Initially it was thought for a client's brief, but as the job was cancelled, we decided to go ahead anyway just for the sake of having fun. Skycatcher
http://sky-catcher.nl/site/newsite/merchandise.php Skycatcher gives access to an online archive of photographs of the sky above Amsterdam. The photographs are taken with a camera positioned on the roof of a building in the center of Amsterdam (De Balie) facing East. Since July 2005, the camera captures images every 5 minutes. 
Fleshmap
http://www.fleshmap.com/listen/music.html Fleshmap is an inquiry into human desire, its collective shape and individual expressions. In a series of studies, we explore the relationship between the body and its visual and verbal representation. Touch investigates the collective perception of erogenous zones. We asked hundreds of people to rank how good it would feel to touch or be touched by a lover in different points of the body. The resulting images reveal a map of sensual desire with multiple focal points and islands of excitement. Read more about our method. While Touch examines collective patterns, Look explores individuality and the hidden surprises that each body reveals when bared. Through a process of abstraction, the piece reveals the multiplicity of formal possibilities contained in a single body part. Contours from different individuals are presented in collections that expose both familiar and oft-overlooked patterns, confronting prototypical notions of ourselves. Read more about our method. Listen investigates the relationship between language and the body. Verbal manifestations of human physicality in music, poetry, and religion are distilled to their basic elements. In a play with language, the "body rebus" emerges as a visual representation of cultural expressions of the physical in us. Read more about our method.
Travel-time Maps and their Uses Transport maps and timetables help people work out how to get from A to B using buses, trains and other forms of public transport. But what if you don't yet know what journey you want to make? How can maps help then? This may seem a strange question to ask, but it is one we all face in several situations:
These are much more complicated questions than those about individual journeys, but one thing they all have in common is transport: can I get to and from the places I'm considering quickly and easily? The maps on this page show one way of answering that question. Using colours and contour lines they show how long it takes to travel between one particular place and every other place in the area, using public transport. They also show the areas from which no such journey is possible, because the services are not good enough. Tangible
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/03/tangible_data_visualization.html A new way to explore statistics by representing the values of the worldwide production of cereals by the amount of grains in a tube. two glass tubes, each representing a specific country, are filled with grains by hand, hereby reversing the classical retrieval of statistics: the starting point is the actual number & not the country. one glass tube shows a specific country, whilst the other glass tube can be used for queries for additional countries to detect possible correlations.visual  Magnetic movie  The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?. BANK PORTFOLIOS - 90+ DAYS LATEhttp://and-still-i-persist.com/2008/03/charting-the-banking-crisis-a-boomerang-demo/http://www.gapminder.org/  First lets look at the top 8 banks and their mortgages that are 90+ days late. Below is a flash charting system, feel free to use the controls and experiment. We chart the total assets of the bank along the horizontal axis, the value of loans that go 90+ days late on the vertical, and the size of the circles represent the total loan portfolio for that bank. You can set the charts in motion by hitting the “Play” button and stop them at any time. Hovering over a circle will show you the value for that data point. Today
TODAY is a piece of generative design for mobile phones. It’s an application that visualizes personal mobile communication. It sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring our connectivity through the number and type of calls we receive, subtly displaying them back to us, in the form of a generative graphic. Here, the visual result is a figurative and seemingly abstract picture – the story of your day. Some days will be really colourful and wired, others quieter and more reflective, either way the resulting visuals will always be personal, unrepeatable and unique.  Novospark
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/04/novospark_weather_visualizer.html#more
users can analyze the image from left to right to spot color patterns occurring during the entire forecast period, which usually point to certain patterns in weather conditions, or even weather anomalies. for instance, almost every location will show 6 (by the number of days the forecast is given for) easily identifiable day/night color transitions as weather conditions at those times of the day significantly differ, especially in northern areas. the dark blue or dark red spots usually point to spikes in certain weather parameters like temperature, wind speed or cloudness, & result in weather anomalies like rain or severe thunderstorms. |
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