Rolando is a cute iPhone/iPod Touch game developed by Simon Oliver (under the name Hand Circus). I was at his lecture at the last This Happened and I must say it was impressive for everyone around. Thumbs up! Btw, I should have asked why the latin name!
Reminder via ComputerLove, posted by Chris O’Shea by the way :)
Add comment July 2nd, 2008 posted by nako
It gets complex, but I like it. Hyperwords is a neat Firefox plug-in that makes pretty much everything into a link. You can select a word, a sentence, you can opt to go straight to a Wikipedia entry or even translate a block of text (with the usual crap translation though), keeping the new text in the page layout (probably caching an html and editing it on the fly). The initial setting is quite annoying – it replaces your toolbar and make any selection call the plug-in – but you can push it to the background and only opt to call it with a shortcut key.
Funny, found it via old media: Rummaging through the internet - The Economist.
Add comment June 19th, 2008 posted by nako
Fleet Foxes @ ULU…a day to remeber… possibly my best concert of the year so far.
video by raggedwords
Add comment June 13th, 2008 posted by antonio pedro
Stop motion has been more used than ever. Perhaps it’s because other technologies just bore our eyes; everything is pretty much possible nowadays. I’ve been looking at so many examples these day which made me remember Willian Kentridge’s animations and drawings. This south-african artist is really inspiring.
Add comment May 14th, 2008 posted by daniel
Tip from Piloto
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Add comment May 14th, 2008 posted by info
The article at Wired describe exactly my feelings:
“Ready to taste envy? To burn with regret? Meet Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe. They’re selling words at a buck per letter.”
Simple, sarcastic, self-sustainable (well, not sure if there is some level of moderation), and the money flows in. The Big Word Project is a new dictionary which let’s you own the mean of a specific word, paying US$ 1 for each letter. Similar to The Million Dollar Page which sold each pixel for US$1, this project is more clever (define clever?) and for sure more ambiguous: they could get way more than a million. Just during the time I’ve monitored it (well, yep, I am working), they managed to sell 30 words over a couple of hours.
1 comment May 13th, 2008 posted by nako
If you guys haven’t seen the work of this chap, please do. I can assure you it is not because I’m a fellow nokian; Jan Chipchase is probably the most notorious Nokia designer, and just by quickly skimming through his work, it’s easy to understand why. His deep ethnography research puts a new (for me the right) perspective on development, what is progress and why designers should observe how people actually use technology rather than simply dictate dogmas from their (our) ivory towers.
Here you go, a few links:
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? - NYT article
Jan Chipchase - The Economist interview
From his website:
“The presentation-lite slides from last week’s Global Philanthropy Forum panel on Early Warning: Listening, Technology, Activism can be downloaded from here (PowerPoint, 2MB).”
1 comment April 15th, 2008 posted by nako
Fontstruct is a cool setup created by Fontshop for those want to develop their own type free of charge and an easily way. Alright, it’s not for advanced typographers, but it’s really helpul. Be honest, raise the hand which one of us has never imagined to design a type like that?
Add comment April 4th, 2008 posted by daniel
