Jul 30, 2011

Karl Martens


The work of Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the present European art-and-design landscape. Martens can be placed in the tradition of Dutch modernism – in the line of figures such as Piet Zwart, H.N. Werkman, Willem Sandberg. Intimately connected with this design work has been his practice as an artist. This started with geometric and kinetic constructions, and was later developed in work with the very material of paper; more recently he has been making relief prints from found industrial artefacts.

Karakuri

it's not easy for a swiss to admit, that something related to clocks from japan is amazing, but this is:


Splendor by Sebastian Schwinkendorf and Matthias Löwe


Splendor maps the photographs of landmarks in connection to the landmarks itself. As a result, each landmark can be characterized with respect to its "best viewed angle", the distance at which it is typically photographed, etc.
The data are from geotagged photographs on Panoramio and the Landmark-Database Qype

Geotag-Typeface

Not a revolutionary idea but very well executed: URbanized Typeface

Jul 29, 2011

Skyscraper database

looking for the 100 tallest skyscrapers?
looking for history of skyscrapers?
looking for the future of skyscrapers?
looking for isometric drawings of any skyscraper?
need any information on skyscraper?




This site has it all! 

Quid


Quid software is used by decision-makers running companies, NGOs, banks, and funds. It captures data, structures it, and enables people to visualize and interact with the information,
to understand the global technology landscape.

jonathan ellery: the sewers of humanity

Do you look at blogs? Are you a social media person?

I use the internet all the time but I vary rarely visit blogs. I’m not on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter or any of them. I would rather stare at the sun than join the sewers of humanity.

jonathan ellery

full interview here

Jonathan Ellery is a graphic designer and artist. He runs the London based design group Browns.

Simon Rogers on data journalism

Good roundup on data journalism in this article from Simon Rogers:
"Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it?"
Simon Rogers edits the Guardian Datablog andDatastore - and is a news editor for the Guardian.

Evol




German street artist EVOL has constructed this urban “X” in a field outside of Hamburg as part of the upcoming MS Dockville music and art festival. The structure took eight days to dig and construct and you can see an annotated photo series showing the process here.




Link to the Foto-Stream

Music Video Break

Today nice Video with nice surfing, enjoy:


Friday Skate Berak

Jul 28, 2011

Twitter polarizes



Previously, we used to have a national media, including newspapers and network TV, produced a fairly unidirectional message. It was like we were all forced to sit in on the same lecture, delivered by the big responsible adults who weren't supposed to favor either side. Today, we can now ignore those adults and break off into whatever little subgroups we like. We can easily listen to only the people we agree with, and the charts above show that this is in fact what seems to be happening. And that can't be good for our political dialogue.

David Zax: You Can't Keep Your Secrets From Twitter

Interesting article about sociolinguistics adobted for the cyberspace:
Mitre found that given certain characters or combinations of characters, the computer could wisely bet on the gender of the tweeter.

Here, from the paper, is a table breaking down how various combinations of data helped boost the gender prediction success rate:


Link

Soon in Belgrad: Resonate

Resonate is setting new standards in the arts industry by creating a new platform for networking, information, knowledge sharing and education. It will bring together distinguished, world class artists, accomplished in their respective fields, with an opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture. 

Belgrade New Media Festival
16-18 September 2011

Dynamical Systems and Chaos


These two pendulum systems quickly diverge, though they both start off with nearly the same settings.

Wild Beasts III



Wild Beasts II
Wild Beasts I

Jul 27, 2011

Ernst May: exhibition at DAM, Frankfurt




The exhibition of the important architect of the "New Frankfurt" and Frankfurt Planning Director Ernst May will present for the first time the complete works of all his creative periods – on the basis of historical photographies, plans and models May's legs in Frankfurt, the Soviet Union and Africa will be displayed amongst others.
Unfortunatly the Exhibition focuses only on celebrating instead of evaluating the difficulties with his heritage as well.

Stanford University: Journalism's Voyage West


This visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers. 
Data visualization by the Rural West Initiative, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University
Credits: Dan Chang, Krissy Clark, Yuankai Ge, Geoff McGhee, Yinfeng Qin and Jason Wang

Link to the interactive Version.

Selected by Mike Gruppy


Link

Björk: Biophilia iPad app

Bjork’s Biophilia iPad app and its first in-app release, Crystalline, are STUNNING.  Seriously, words cannot really do it justice.  You play a game where you collect crystals in certain sequences to unlock different arrangements and elements of the song, which you can then arrange in real-time while playing the game by choosing different tunnel.  I’m addicted, and Bjork is giving me something I’m willing to spend money on.
Stop whining, music industry and get creative!


See also this post about location aware music.

Jul 26, 2011

Cinemetrics: another movie visualization

But this one is interactive! Very nice work from Frederic Brodbeck:

cinemetrics from fb on Vimeo.

Link to cinemetrics.
The code is available here.

watch the book online after the jump

Moritz Stefaner: The Vizosphere



This map shows 1645 twitter accounts related to the topic of information visualization. The accounts were determined as follows: For a subjective selection of "seed accounts", the twitter API was queried for followers and friends. In order to be included into the map, a user account needed to have at least 5 links (i.e. follow or being followed) to one of these accounts. The size of the network nodes indicates the number of followers within this network.
made with gephi, embeded with visualizing player

Jul 25, 2011

And another award goes to: Niklaus Troxler


The TDC Best in Show award for Niklaus Troxler.


Niklaus Troxler was honored with thel Best in Show award for his poster Ullman-Kühne. Niklaus Troxler also had 2 other pieces in the show this year. His achievements in the competition go back 24 years, with his work appearing 31 times.

Niklaus Troxler, Ullmann-Kühne

100 Beste Plakate


Einer der Preisträger:
Stephan Bundi für Theater Biel Solothurn, Biel
Infos zum Buch und Link nach dem jump

Computable Document Format by Wolfram Alpha

Interaktive Visualisierungen erstellen ohhne Progtrammierungskenntnisse?
Ah, interessant...
Zur Darstellung der Visualisierungen wird ein Browser-Plugin benötigt. Uh, das Interesse schwindet wieder...
Da spielt es auch keine rolle mehr, dass die gesehenen Beispiele optisch nicht überzeugend sind und das Plugin etwas langsam reagiert. 

Jul 24, 2011

Minimalistic



see this one too

SEMICONDUCTOR at FACT Liverpool



In the work, these films have been re-contextualised to emphasise and examine three distinct relationships; the erupting volcano as all-powerful and humbling the spectacle as people gather to watch in collective amazement, photograph and be photographed and the taming of the volcano through scientific probing, measurement and human endeavour.
We’re really playing with the idea of the science documentaryEveryone is very familiar now with the very standard format of creating a narrative and a way of documenting science, and hopefully we’re challenging this.SEMICONDUCTOR

Jul 22, 2011

"understand" how "big" the us debt is

File in São Paulo

FILE, the Electronic Language International Festival that takes place in São Paulo this Summer. As usual, the event mixes and matches immersive installations, animations movies, performances, machinimas, besides works of web art, documentary, and other goodies you expect from this ambitious new media art festival.

ADA - an analoge interactive installation, by Karina Smigla-Bobinski.

ADA is a huge helium-filled ball trapped inside a room. Its surface is spiked with charcoals that leave marks on the white surface of the walls, ceilings and floors as it bounced from one side of the room to the other.

more after the jump...

Jul 21, 2011

Lese-Tipp: Москва — Петушки

Die Reise nach Petuschki von Wenedikt Wassiljewitsch Jerofejew.


Ich habs vor langer Zeit mal in der sibirischen Eisenbahn gelesen, wie der Fisch im Wasser, sozusagen. Ich hab Tränen gelacht und die Unwirtlichkeiten der weiteren Reise mit einer kumpelhaften Gelassenheit den Russen gegenüber hingenommen.
Ich werds diesen Sommer nochmals lesen. Diesmal auf dem Liegestuhl, an der gesunden Meerluft, als Kontrastprogramm sozusagen.

English (just the distillate): Read the book Moscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations, and Moscow Circles by by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev.

Music Video Break

Friday Music Video Break



Lorena Turner: Made in China



For this project, items made and packaged in China were purchased in US department stores and bodegas. They remained in their original packaging until they were dusted for fingerprints and then photographed under black lights. This process allowed for the evidence of another's touch, quite possibly the person involved in constructing and packaging the item, to be revealed.
Made in China highlights the human factor and invisible history in each object's production, and forces us to reconsider the relationship those who are leaving their fingerprints on each item may have with it.
 more after the jump

Marshall McLuhan, born 100 years ago!


This book, published in 1967, was McLuhan's best seller, "eventually selling nearly a million copies worldwide." Initiated by Quentin Fiore, McLuhan adopted the term "massage" to denote the effect each medium has on the human sensorium, taking inventory of the "effects" of numerous media in terms of how they "massage" the sensorium. 
McLuhan himself just approved the selection of text passages as well as pictures, typography and layout. The ruour is spread that the only thing McLuhan contributed was to leave the misspelling of message.

More spreads from the phenomenal illustrated classic "The Medium is the Message" after the jump

Wild Beasts II


Wild Beasts I

Looking for a online-dating-name?

The german dating agency eDarling "discovered", that usernames are related to the success in online-dating. 

So here are the names you should choose, when you're online-dating in switzerland:

The winners and losers for switzerland (% deviation from avarage clicks on profile):



In generally: choose a name popular among the folks at the main holiday-destination of you online-dating-hood.

Data via südostschweiz (Link)

Jul 20, 2011

Prouvé RAW


Prouvé RAW is a collection of newly interpreted furniture classics from French designer and artisan Jean Prouvé. Thanks to the cooperation of G-Star, the Prouvé family and Vitra, Prouvé’s most famous designs have been re-issued with a contemporary flair, while some of his lesser-known designs have been rediscovered.

Of the seventeen designs in the exhibition, nine will be available from fall 2011 in a Special Edition at select Vitra retailers around the world. The products of the Special Edition Prouvé RAW are numbered and feature a Prouvé RAW label.

more pictures and link after the jump.

Herzog & de Meuron: new Stadium for Bordeaux

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron are building the new stadium in Bordeaux. The «Stade Bordeaux Atlantique» will have a capacity of 43'000 people. It will open for public in 2015, one year before the european soccer championship 2016 in France.



More Pictures after the jump.

Electroland: Skate 1.0 at A+D Museum, LA


SKATE 1.0 is a sound and light installation by Electroland. It is installed at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles as part of the COME IN! 2: SURF.SKATE.BIKE exhibition. The exhibition dates are from June 14-July 24, 2011.

Link to the Exhibition 
Link to Electroland 

German after the jump

Thats what the Visualizing Player can do:

Embeded Visualizing Player:

Embed visualizations in your blog was never so easy befor: go fullscreen and hit the play-button!

Example:
How healthy are our hospitals? by Lisa Strausfeld from Pentagram.

Talk To Me, stamen design

stamen design, a San Francisco based design and technology studio is featured at MoMa's Talk To Me Exhibition as well:
Our team have two pieces in the exhibit: prettymaps, the open data yellow-and-green smorgasbord that we accounced last year, and Walking Papers, the Open Street Map-based project on display for a few more days at the Art Institute of Chicago
They also designed the accompanying website for the exhibit, currently availabile in beta at http://moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome. The full site will launch on July 24. 

Thursday?


Swiss newspaper "Tages Anzeiger" has already thursday (Donnestag), luckily still the 20th of July...

Jul 19, 2011

Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects

The Catalogue to the Exhibitoin Talk to Me at MoMa is now available.
Order it here (oder über Amazon).

Création d’un centre mondial de communication, Hendrik Andersen


Das Buch als Ort der Utopie

Cosmic 140 by iA, still available


The 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting and what they first said. It took quite some time until we had it in the shape we envisioned.
A0-Poster, super high quality paper, the parts that appear in grey on the file are PP-Varnish.

More Pictures, Info and a Video after the Jump!

Map of the swiss political landscape

by sotomo (Link)

Far an Pretty



Other Worlds by Nicolas Sassoon

Visit somewhere far and pretty

Jul 18, 2011

Apropos Float: Ab in die Tiefe

Apropos Float:

Zur Zeit wird in den Zeitungen und Architekturzeitschriften auch wieder mal der Untergrund als Bauland hervorgehoben. Der Idee, Infrastruktur, Kaufhäuser und Kinosäle in den Untergrund zu verlegen kann ich da eindeutig mehr abgewinnen, als mit der Zersiedelung auf dem Wasser weiterzumachen.

Den Problemen die sich beim Planen und Graben stellen, widmet sich der Artikel "Ab in die Tiefe" in der NZZ vom 13. 7. 2011.

Der Artikel im Tages Anzeiger vom 18.6.2011 (Link) beschreibt, wie
ETH-Verkehrsprofessor Ulrich Weidmann wenigstens den öffentlichen Verkehr in der Zürcher Innenstadt unter die Erde bringen will (auch nachzulesen in der aktuellen Ausgabe des Hochparterre (Link). Aber Tramfahren unter der Erde wäre der Hölle ein grosses Stück näher, wenn man all den Mitfahrern nicht mit einem Blick nach Draussen entfliehen könnte. Sollen doch die, welche mit der erweiterten Privatsphäre Auto unterwegs sind, im langweiligen Untergrund verkehren.



Schöne Beispiele für das Wohnen knapp unter der Erdoberfläche finden sich im Beitrag von Susanne Fritz für Architonic (Link). Sie vergisst auch nicht zu erwähnen, dass das Bauen im Untergrund schon vor ziemlich genau 70 Jahren wahnsinnig in war.

Visualizing Player 1.0

And here comes the next big launch in the visualization sphere:
Visualizing.org announces the visualizing player 1.0,
the first-ever media player designed for data visualization.

What it does:
  • A single frame that supports 7 formats and counting (HTML5, Java, Flash, PDF, Video,Image, URL)
  • Experience visualizations in full screen with viewing tools tailored to your format
From the submission agreement:
We may present contests (called Challenges or an "Event" in the terms below) that permit you to submit a visualization based on specific criteria and may offer awards to some participants.
and
By submitting Visualization Content, you agree that such Visualization Content shall be licensed to members of the general public under the most recent version of the Creative Commons license known as the "share-alike, for attribution, non-commercial license" (the "Creative Commons License"), as defined at creativecommons.org.
 Link

Buch-Tipp: Float

Ein Buch übers Bauen auf dem Wasser. Liegt ja eigentlich auf der Hand, so langsam damit zu beginnen, die schönen freien Wasserflächen auch noch zuzustellen. Und die Zersiedelung an Land wär dann sicher kein Thema mehr. Ausserdem sind 71% der Erdoberfläche von Wasser bedeckt und Fische hats eh bald keine mehr. Legen wir los!

Trotzdem ein schönes Buch, ausserdem ist es noch on sale. Hier zugreifen.






More Info and english after the jump

Cybraphone by Found Electronics





Cybraphon is a robotic music instrument, a data-mining-computer, a visualization-machine, a mind-blowing interactive art piece. 
If you have an iPhone, you can check Cybraphon’s mood on the move, here.

more info and link after the jump.

and some fashion-photography on monday


Arizona Muse photographed by Glen Luchford, issue n°34. Styling by Marie Chaix.
Additional Credits

Nicos Livesey: a different clay-stop-motion



Jul 15, 2011

Max Jacob

Das Kind gab mir seine Hand und ich hielt sie fest gegen das Unglück.
Max Jacob.

Artikel in der Zeit vom August 1970


One Day on Earth

A nice Project! i gave my 5$


On October 10th, 2010 (10/10/10), thousands of inspired individuals, representing every nation of the world, filmed their perspective and contributed their voice to a collaborative global film project. We amassed over 3,000 hours of footage on the day.
view the project on kickstarter

iPhone Mapping


Since OpenPaths it is widely known that the iPhone constantly tracks your location. The video by Michael Kreil shows the movements of 880 different iPhones in Europe that have been analyzed for the month of April 2011.

Are you interested in funiculars?


The swiss Funicular Inventory (www.seilbahninventar.ch) lists almost all of the swiss funiculars. From the worldwide first touristic funicular to the underground Skymetro at the airport in zurich. Get very detailed information for all listed funiculars, an interactive map and lots of pictures. Explore them by mouse-click or order the printed brochure via denkmalpflege@bak.admin.ch



Friday Skate Break

 i specially like the audio from "The Warriors" (i loved this movie as a teenager):



"The Warriors" Movie Trailer after the jump

BONAPARTE

 Music Video Break


Jul 14, 2011

Wild Beasts I

And another network platform...

Yesterday was the launch of visual.ly, a newnetworking platform for infographics and datavisualizations.



Once their web servers can handle the load, the new and the already much hyped website allows access to over 2,000 different infographic illustrations, uploaded by designers like JESS3 and David McCandless, and including a large collection of own infographics. Visual.ly has already attracted key partners in publishing, design and distribution, including The Atlantic, CNNMoney.com, eBay, GOOD Magazine, OMD, National Geographic, The Next Web, and Smirnoff. Each of these publications is allowed to upload its own graphics, which can then be embedded and shared via a Visual.ly-created embed code.

Link

PreBook: cyclo.id by Carsten Nicolai

A decade since its inception on Raster Noton, Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai are relaunching their collaborative project, cyclo., a project that focuses on the visualisation of sound and seeks to create a new hybrid of visual art and music. In their shared work, they generate new hybrid forms of audiovisual art and expand the possibilities of digital technology.
Book:
Vinyl:
  
CD:

Essentially the sounds on 'Id' are inextricable from their visual corollary. They're the unmastered sonic illustrations of detailed graphical data, and vice versa, developed from a database of sounds composed to produce visual responses when analysed in real time with the help of stereo image monitoring equipment. Most importantly, the sounds are subservient to the image, hence the record remains purposefully unmastered in order to retain the waveform's original integrity when visualized through an XY phase scope, transcending the usual sound>image dynamic. Release Date: September 2011 Format: 18,5 x 23 cm Features: 328 pages, b/w, hardcover, incl. CD-Rom Language: English Publisher: Gestalten
Gestalten: Link
Carsten Nicolai: http://www.carstennicolai.de/
Vinyl and CD:
Raster Noton: http://www.raster-noton.net/