Interface of the future? 576 cubes hooked up to 20...
The Intel Infoscape I would love one of these 7 foot screens! Intel shows off it’s new i7 processor (the entire system runs off only one processor!). Particularly like the way they have abstracted information using cubes on the touchscreen. It would be great to be able to stack and arrange the cubes, perhaps the touchscreen could double...
March: The Ray Mann Three
To celebrate our birthdays, a group of us went to see the Ray Mann Three (who recently supported Al Green here in Oz) and I was overwhelmed not just by their beautiful music but their joyful vibe and happy energy that was infectious. Singer, Ray Mann creates his own animations, visuals and poster art. At the gig he described...
Inspiration: Learn about creativity in 1 minute!
head Bet someone wished they’d thought of this – courtesy of @mumbrella - a great video by Vancouver based agency Rethink, illustrating in 1 minute, tips on developing your creativity. I particularly like the fact it uses a pop up book as the visual mechanic, love it , love it. Props to them for using it to promote their own...
OLPC Amazing Product Design – Laptops for Charity
I’ve been a fan of this organisation for a while now and would love to do some work for them (possibly resolution #3 for 2010!).
One Laptop Per Child have released photos of the new concept for their hardy laptops which are donated to children that don’t have the same opportunities to have the web at their fingertips and a wealth of accessible and free knowledge.
One Laptop Per Child - Laptop Design - the X03
Check out the rest of the XO-3 designs here by the Fuse design team and information on their work and how you can help. They look amazing…..
My tumblr experiment – streetscout
Am experimenting with tumblr – just set up streetscout to post up all my street art pics 
Spotted: Paste Up Art in Enmore
Luckily my dodgy old Nokia N95 has a half decent camera on it as I carry it everywhere, one of the main reasons is to capture anything street art wise that interests me. This could be anything from guerilla knitting to graffitti to paste ups (like this one below). I’m never sure as to what is ‘real’ street art to what is actually some pr or marketing agency. Anyway, I’ve also decided to experiment with Tumblr (shock horror) but with the focus on stuff I have spotted and that inspires me around the Inner West so we’ll see how that goes
Paste Up Art - Enmore
Little Nerdy has moved to www.littlenerdy.com.au
I had to dust off my html hat and start fiddling with <div> tags – it’s a little like riding a bike, you never forget to add the </> tag
i heart bit.ly.tv
Always being behind the eight ball, I have just come across bitly.tv and have completely fallen for the simple interface that uses a slider bar to filter video clip thumbnails so you can view what the ’world’ has been watching and is currently watching while also providing the ability to view a specific video and see associated tweets. Feels like I will be using this a lot…….
Some interesting Twitter stats – Brazil surges ahead
Accordng to a survey by By Sysomos Inc., comparing stats from the previous year, there was a significant surge in Brazilian tweeters of almost 400% while the % of U.S tweeps has droppedfrom June 2009. However in terms of % of tweets contributed, the U.S topped it at 56.6% as the most active twitter users. Read the full report on the original site here. Proof that amazing beaches and beautiful people are not enough to distract people from their P.Cs!
January Inspiration of the Month: MDM Props London
This year, I thought I’d post up who or what has inspired me each month. To start off 2010, the company I’m nominating for January is MDM Props in London. A company I first read about last year on wired.com in an article by Kate Kitamura, MDM are commissioned by artists such as Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Jake and Dinos Chapman to create and build their physical works of art, taking their ideas and ‘white labelling’ them by bringing them to life.
Why do they inspire me?
Working within digital production, we often work backstage, pulling strings, making cups of tea and trying to figure out problems from the banal to the complex. Most of the time we sit staring at the pixels working with ‘digital’, something that is abstract and not physically in front of us, there is no mass to digital, it boils down to alot of binary.
Imagine the challenges however of trying to find a shade of black paint that is ‘20 times blacker than the next blackest shade’ or fighting with the laws of physics all the while managing the creative expectations of an artist.
Despite the inevitable stresses and pressures that this process must entail, imagine too the satisfaction of having completed a monumental piece of installation art.
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This is a blog about my thoughts and adventures in digital.
I'm a digital producer based in Sydney & I like making stuff.