Fad or no fad, Chatroulette’s 15 minutes of fame isn’t up just yet. An art gallery is showing “a tableau of human reactions” gleaned from the viral video chat site; the exhibit is called the Narcissus Series.According to the gallery’s curators, “The premise of the Narcissus Series is to recreate the conditions of the myth and capture that moment of self-recognition. Bespoke software was created to divert the incoming video feed, reflect it and feed it back so that each person was confronted with their own reflected image, in place of an expected remote random partner.”In other words, instead of being connected to another human being, the Chatroulette user on the other end of this program would just see themselves upside down, which references the mythical character Narcissus seeing his reflection in a body of water.Between February and May, several thousand people were captured for this art project. We don’t know whether these people have given their permission for the use of their likeness; still, the results are interesting.“Narcissus Lament” is a 10-minute video grid (excerpt below) composed of 108 separate frames displaying still shots of Chatroulette users experiencing their own “moment of self-recognition.” The exhibit also includes “Regret,” “Redemption” and “Remorse,” three prints containing 576 images each.The artist, Liubo Borissov, is an assistant professor at Pratt Institute’s Department of Digital Arts. His work lives at the intersection of science, technology and art. If Narcissus interests you, we recommend giving his Vimeo channel a gander, too.So tell us, which kind of Chatroulette-inspired art do you prefer: the Narcissus Series or Merton the Chatroulette Piano Guy?More About: art, chatroulette, exhibit, gallery, video chatFor more Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad
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Chatroulette Spawns Art Gallery Exhibit, “Narcissus”
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July 7 2010, 7:14pm | Comments »
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Technology Review: TR10: Social TV
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Oil Factory: Tomorrow's Brightest Minds
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March 10 2010, 4:26am | Comments »
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TubeMogul.com | In-Depth Tracking, Analytics for Online Video | Web Video Syndication
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January 18 2010, 7:53am | Comments »
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Deltree » Light & Sound, To Move You.
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Sputnik Observatory : Themes
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Video on Agile Design from my Creative Mornings talk is up
http://designnotes.info/?p=1792
5/8 Michael Surtees from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
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surtees_agilededesign Michael Surtees Publish at Scribd or explore others: Other Research agile DesignI’m really happy to mention that my Agile Design talk at Creative Mornings can now be seen on Vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/4831538. The entire video is about half an hour with the Q & A—I guess I went over my ten minute slot, ha. I just want to thank Tina and the entire Creative Mornings team for giving me the opportunity to talk, setting up the event and producing a great video that ties my talk together. I also wanted to thank James A. Reeves who was hanging out in Finland and was the virtual skype guest, and Core Industries for sponsoring the talk. And please let me know what you thought of the talk. I’m kind of curious to hear from designers who are working in a more traditional framework of waterfall. Does agile seem like a good idea or something that should be left to engineers? And to save some time, here’s the links from the last slide… The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It by Joshua Cooper Ramo Adaptive Path http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ Is incremental design the wave of the future? http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/02/incremental_design.html Ethan Eismann (Look for the Designing for Agile: Seven Practices) http://eismann-sf.com/news/?cat=12 Twelve emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/emerging_best_agile_ux_practice.html Design as an Iterative Process http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=686&fileId=1657 Is Your Agile Software Process Handcuffing the User Experience Design? http://design-for-users.com/user-experience/agile-software-process-user-experience-design/ Kanban Development Oversimplified http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/2009/kanban_over_simplified.html
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What if GPS worked like Here & There?
http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2009/05/08/if-gps-had-here-there/
You get used to the Here & There projection really fast. Timo Arnall, friend of S&W, was talking to Jack: I’ve been sitting here staring at the map, pretty much on and off since yesterday. It comes across as a totally natural projection! … it’s as if you have wired two separate bits of my brain together; the bit that does maps, and the bit that does perspective. Here’s a comparison:
Thanks Chris Woebken for the photo! It starts feeling weird that you can’t see over rooftops. And while these prints we’ve shown so far are tied to two intersections (one looking from 3rd and 7th, and the other from 3rd and 35th), yes we are working on doing it on the fly, and yes we’re looking at generating projections from all kinds of places for one-off prints. The natural question is, what would this look like driving round Manhattan? (If you forget about the traffic.) As Fast Company and Gizmodo said, Garmin should do it. They totally should. And so here it is.
The Here & There projection is on the left, and the equivalent normal view is on the right. Click through and watch the HD version. It’s cool. There’s another video too, that shows how the streets distort to make the projection possible. Here’s what I’d like for my future magic in-car navigation system:
the superpower to see through the city into the distance real-time! traffic volume overlaid on the distant city map, with my route a way to peek around corners seeing further the faster my car is going
Any more?
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May 8 2009, 9:18am | Comments »
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Notes from Justin Ouellette of Muxtape Talk
http://designnotes.info/?p=1747
Below are my incomplete notes that I found myself typing away on my iPhone last night as I listened to Justin Ouellette of Muxtape talk at the Apple SoHo store for the AIGA NY DesignerRemixed series. I’ll try adding more context to some of the bullet points through the day as thoughts come back… · lists and music go pretty well together · playlists give context, much more interesting then an algorithm · what’s better than a computer recommendation? A human recommendation · exposure and threads are shown via those human playlists · limits allow for quality · contrast of different music types, not in a vacumn · less is often more · myspace music player is scary, interesting he noted that he was “confronted” with advertising · played the below video…
The Top (Music Video) from Francis and the Lights on Vimeo. · design principles and respect · all those charts and info vs a simple question of what you’re trying to get, showed example of is Obama up? · reverse of simplicity is more maximal. Showed the Sistine Chapel. · getting people to listen to it is the first step to get attention to make money · people being concerned about miss out on next big thing… Edrea Lita has a couple better pics of the talk on her flickr stream.
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Location-Based Apps for Love (or Concert Buddies)
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/10/location-based-apps-for-love-or-concert-buddies/
Who needs privacy? Loopt
When I was researching which location-based app to track me on my recent cross-country road trip, I discovered Loopt, which allowed me to take a picture and hit an update button to feed into a running diary of my last 10 updates. I tried to use Google Latitude, but it doesn’t include a history of where you’ve been, only where you are, at any given point. I also discovered a tab on my Loopt iPhone app called “Loopt Mix,” which pinpoints people who are, right then and there, within your own block, neighborhood and city, and who have “similar interests.” It seemed to me that wherever I went across America, only gay men looking for love seemed to be using this app robustly. But the more I dived into location-based social networking, the more it seemed to be an untapped technology. Imagine being at a Death Cab For Cutie concert and wanting to find other people who are also into emo bands, you’d make a connection. This is the kind of place-based social networking usage that another geo-aware app, Brightkite, is hoping to achieve. Like with most other social networks, communities form around certain services. Where Loopt seemed to be full of gay men, Brightkite seemed chock-a-block with savvy Web 2.0 marketers, pitching their brands, something personal users have grown wary of. I followed three couples on their meetup escapades, and here’s what happened:
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Motorola ·· Experience
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