Please talk about the Space Is the Limit project. Who are some other artists/designers involved? Do you really plan to shoot something into space?
Space is the limit is a site created to promote the course I attended at Hyper Island, the aim was to create awareness and get agencies to check out or work. Our idea was to make an interactive site where you could send any message, feeling, statement etc. to outer space. All students were involved more or less and we also had a launch party for it. We received a lot of traffic and PR from the site and soon we will launch everyones messages into space. Literally.
Human Pyramids Collective was formed in 2007 by an international group of artists and friends. Though we have been happily making art and working within our own cities and circles, the idea of forming some kind of creative intersecting outlet was appealed to us all. A place where we all can share our stories, news, interests, and arts. Ergo, Human Pyramids was born - our online marketplace filled with chunks of wonder and slices of awesome from all around the globe. Dig it!
I Love Bees (also known as ilovebees or ILB for short) was an alternate reality game (ARG) that served as both a real-world experience and viral marketing campaign for the release of developer Bungie’s 2004 video game Halo 2. The game was created by 42 Entertainment, who had previously created an ARG for the film A.I., and would later create Why So Serious? for the Warner Brothers film The Dark Knight. I Love Bees was commissioned by Microsoft, Halo 2’s publisher.I Love Bees was first advertised by a subliminal message in a Halo 2 trailer; players who investigated the titular website discovered that the pages appeared to be hacked by a mysterious intelligence. As players solved puzzles, audio logs were posted to the ilovebees.com site which gradually revealed more of the fictional back-story, involving a marooned artificial intelligence stranded on Earth and its attempts to put itself back together.I Love Bees was a marketing success; 250,000 people viewed the ilovebees website when it was launched in August 2004, and more than 500,000 returned to the site every time the pages were updated. More than three million visitors viewed the site over the course of three months, and thousands of people around the world participated in the game. I Love Bees won numerous awards for its innovation and helped spawn numerous other alternate reality games for video games.
Alternate reality games or ARGs are designed to involve fans of video games or other media in a form of viral marketing which CNET described as encompassing “real-life treasure hunting, interactive storytelling, video games and online [communities]”.[1]I Love Bees began when jars of honey were received in the mail by people who had previously participated in alternate reality games. The jars contained letters leading to the I Love Bees website and a countdown.[2] At around the same time, theatrical trailers for Halo 2 concluded with the Xbox logo and a URL, xbox.com, that quickly flashed a link to ilovebees.com,[3] ostensibly a hacked site related to beekeeping.[2]
Both events, not connected publicly for several weeks, caused the curious to visit the website ilovebees.com. The site, which appeared to be dedicated to honey sales and beekeeping, was covered in confusing random characters and sentence fragments. Dana, the ostensible webmaster of the ilovebees site, created a weblog stating that something had gone wrong with her website, and the site itself had been hacked.[4] Suspecting that this was a mystery that could be unraveled, Halo and ARG fans spread the link and began to work on figuring out what was going on.
Players respond to a phone call
The gameplay of I Love Bees tasked players around the world to work together to solve problems, with little or no direction or guidance.[5] For example, the game presented players with 210 pairs of global positioning system coordinates and time codes, with no indications to what the locations referred to.[5] Players eventually figured out the coordinates referred to pay phones and the times to when the phones would ring; one player in Florida stayed by a phone while Hurricane Frances was minutes away in order to recite answers to prerecorded questions.[6] Other phone calls were made by live persons known as “operators”; these calls allowed players to interact with the characters of the games in spontaneous and occasionally humorous ways.[7] Other players treated the corrupted data on ilovebees.com as encrypted files to decipher, or used image files found on the web server to solve puzzles.[6] After players completed certain tasks, they were rewarded with new installments to an audio drama which revealed the reasons for the ilovebees.com malfunction.[6]
Over time, the game’s mechanisms for contacting players grew more complex. Players were sent messages via email, called on their cell phones, and travelled to arranged meetings between players and characters.[8] The game culminated by inviting players of the game to visit one of four cinemas where they could get a chance to play Halo 2 before its release and collect a commemorative DVD.[9]
Ioli Sifakaki, a student at the Royal College of Art, made ceramic tableware set cast from her own body and invited a dozen men to a feast. The dinner service was inspired by the Greek myth of Tantalus, who, after revealing the secrets of the gods, cut up his son, boiled him, and served him as food as a sacrifice for the gods.
Sifakaka told Dezeen: “The ritual of eating is a key element in my work… By casting myself, I copy, dismantle and offer parts of me, in order to provoke new, unusual relationships between the maker and the user.” Note that there’s no silverware — they had to eat with their hands.
“Avocado Slicer - There were many candidates for most useless vegetable or fruit slicer, but we wanted to include just one, and this is it. Avocado slicer? Really? You can’t use a spoon?”
The latest installation from Illegal Art happened on a chilly May afternoon in the Lower East Side. A long floral panel fixed against the store window of Kaight boutique. People slowly gathered to share and honor a(or a few) past loves.
“From the days of Junior High where holding hands constituted a romantic affiliation to the complications of adulthood affairs, the ending of a relationship can be both trying and freeing at once. Divorce, separation, one night stands, three months to twenty years. If it ended, whether it was good or bad, it always stays in our head and sometimes, heart.
As an honor to your past, and theirs, write down the name of someone you broke up with or who broke up with you. First name. Last name. Or both. Think of it as the “Wailing Wall of Relationships”. The names of the participants of the collective broken relationships of the neighborhood, the city and world.
This is what the sidewalks look like during Vappu, the Finnish May Day celebration where students dress like race car drivers (academic jumpsuits color-coded by university department) in sailor hats (graduation caps)…
It’s a question every New Yorker wonders – how much are my neighbors paying for their apartments? I’ve Lived: Post-it Notes for Neighbors is an interactive installation that helps demystify the topic by inviting local residents and other passers-by to share information about their living situation. Inspired by Illegal Art’s “To Do” installation, this participatory project covers a storefront window with Post-it notes stamped with specific fill-in-the-blank forms. Passers-by can fill in a note with their own apartment information and balk at the high and low numbers paid by others. By the end of the week, the window will have transformed into a useful collection of personal notes created by and relevant to the community, as well as serve as a reflection of changing real estate values.
I’ve Lived: Post-it Notes for Neighbors was part of the Windows Brooklyn exhibit that paired artists with storefront windows in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens June 14-22, 2008. Candy’s storefront: vintage furniture shop Yesterday’s News at 428 Court Street and 2nd Place (which happens to be right around the corner from where she used to live). They sell classy old-school furniture, maps, and other cool items. Check it out and say hi to owner JP! Installation assistance by Kay Cheng.
Now this moment I must stop for a commercial from my sponsor…and your sponsor: the human brain. You’re carrying around a perfect instrument. This instrument is designed to create any reality that you can wire it up to create. The brain is perfect. It’s that program that screws it up. The programs that they lay on us. I’ll tell you what the brain wants, the brains wants to be excited. To be surprised. Electrified. Your brain wants you to take your brain everywhere. Your brain doesn’t want to be stuck in cities all its life. Your brain wants to do it all and see it all. Your brain wants you to go all the way - wouldn’t you if you were a brain? And to continually show your brain that same old dumb soap opera…here’s what your brain is gonna do. It’s gonna turn you off. The brain wants to…evolve! That’s the end of the commercial. How about a round of applause for the brain! (Applause)
If all goes well—or very wrong—Earth may receive a message from aliens from the Altair solar system as early as 2015. Japanese astronomers Hisashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Morimoto sent an email there back in 1983, which was lost and has just been re-discovered by the latter at the Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory. Hirabayashi says they were drunk at the time, which explains why some of the 13 71 x 71 pixel images are the molecular formula for ethanol, the kanji characters for “kanpai!” (cheers!), and the English word “toast.” Check out some of the pictures and play drunk alien yourself after the jump.According to Hirabayahsi, he “came up with that idea while drinking. The aliens probably won’t understand that (kanpai and toast) part.” We can only hope that whoever is looking for life at their radio telescope up there won’t be drunk as well, if only to ensure good inter-planetary relations from the start. Example:
Obviously, this means: “Dear People of Altair, We are organisms who reproduce sexually to form families. Life on Earth started in the water.” Kind of scary, but better than the alternative—after five whiskies: “Hey alien dudes, here on Earth we are all nudist. Some of us are giants with big tits. Others are giants with tiny penises. Fishes like to suntan on the beach. Turn the page to see us drunk. Kanpai!”
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 movement being a characteristic of striated space as opposed to smooth space where points do not terminate a path), became a space for people to become producers, creating and sharing new information, activities and ideologies—Benjamin’s description of the ideal production apparatus in the hands of the proletariat. However, as prescribed of organic and planned forces intermingling, the smooth space of the internet has bred a new striated space of ’social networking tools’, tools which threaten the act of production.
With “social networking tools”, such as facebook, we have stopped communicating directly with each other and instead ‘update’ our ’status’ via ‘wall posts’. We do not personally invite our friends with a phone call or email, but create an ‘event’ in the confines of the ’social networking tool’ which our network of real-life friends may not learn of if they are not a part of that insular network. We don’t express grief or even news of losing a grandparent other than by creating a status update that you are ‘going to a funeral’. The empathic connections between members of a society are cut, and without the feelings of kinship, care, respect, etc. the human connections in a society are severed and social responsibilities to each other are lost.
For about a year now these oxygen bottles have been for sale in 7-eleven in Japan.
They come in several choices such as melon, coffea or like the in the photo below, “forest”.
Exactly what to do with these bottles including how, when and why to use them remains unknown. But a competing convenience store chain has answered by offering oxygen-rich water on bottle.
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“Can I Make Everybody Happy?” is a collection of e—mail dialogues between the client and the graphic designer in practical situations. It started out as an assignment by Linda van Deursen at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, about the limitations in graphic design. Later on this assignment ended up in a set of 6 different books. Avaliable as a series or sold seperately. Avaliable at Amazon
Future Perfect is about the collision of people, society and technology, drawing on issues related to the design research that I conduct in part, on behalf of my employer - Nokia.
The New York Times has a decent write-up of this research here, related media here.
I currently conduct research for Nokia Design and split my time between running user studies and developing new applications, services and products that, if I do my job right, you’ll be using 3 to 15 years from now. Prior to this role I worked as Principal Researcher in the Nokia Research Center, Tokyo. I specialize in taking teams of concept/industrial designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists, and ethnographers into the field and, after a fair bit of work, getting them home safely. The tough part of the job is in using the data to inform, inspire and affect how my colleagues think and what they do, and in turning research into core intellectual property that underpins the future business. Since March 2009 I live and work from Los Angeles - with stints in London, Berlin and for the last 9 years, Tokyo.
Leave it to students at the MIT Media Lab to develop a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. With an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, they attached a mirror and connected it to an internet-enabled mobile phone. A mere $350 of off-the-shelf components and suddenly the glass window at Macy’s, your car door, or your arm become a computer display. Want to Google the latest Dow Jones, Nasdaq, or S&P 500 returns? No problem, just do a quick search on your shirt sleeve.
WindMaker is an ambient weather widget which applies the current wind conditions to (almost) any Web site.
WindMaker uses a United States ZIP code to grab local conditions from the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed. It then parses a Web site into individual pieces such as text blocks and images. Finally, WindMaker sets the pieces in motion according to the strength of the wind
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iQuit generates a formal letter of resignation from its library of pointed, yet ambiguous, sentences.
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