Flash without the plug-in
Smokescreen – iPad demo #1 from Chris @ RevShockAds on Vimeo.
We don’t thiiiiiink this is an April fools thing, some guys seem to have made a javascript that actually reads a .swf file and re-plays it in javascript, so it works on the iPhone etc. This is truly amazing if they can make it fast enough (which they can). Imagine doing great Flash web sites, and then being able to have a fall back iPhone version in HTML5, that actually shows animations and sounds. Or to finally be able to view all those videos online that is just not possible now on iPhone and iPad. Good work, we cross our fingers. They are releasing it open source so may be we’ll contribute.
New Media Meeting Festival
New Media Meeting festival is the festival you wanna go to, even though it’s in Norrköping, 2 hours south of Stockholm. This clip (Shaidon Effect (Denmark) and Ida Selbing’s sculpture (Sweden)) features one of the many installations they show 20-27 November every year. Look out for this event come fall.
Interactive Institute
Whenefver you’re approaching a problem, you should look at what the Interactive Institute have done, they will probably be way ahead. We wanna highlight a few of their interactive pieces here on the blog to show you just about how clever these people are. Worth mentioning here is that this was our Kalle Thyselius‘ dream job when he was studying at Hyper Island many years ago. We’ll post these highlights in their separate posts. Perhaps the brilliance is not only in the ideas, but also the fact that they can actually play all day.
Magic advertising
This Harry Potter magic coffe cup is clever in so many ways.
# Virually free to create, all that’s needed is a little nerd
# Wonderful to experience IRL
# Viral when uploaded to YouTube
# Awards will rain down from the sky
We Feel Fine (in case you missed it)
“We feel fine” is Jonathan Harris famous interactive piece from 2006. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). All of this information is saved. The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 – 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions.
Explore Jonathan Harris´ other work at http://www.number27.org/ especially I Want You To Want Me which blew us away at MOMA in New York last year and LoveLines.
Check out what can be done in HTML5
You can find a lot of great HTML5 experiments on http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ One really neat app that we found was Dark Room. It’s sort of an Apple Aperture/Adobe Lightroom lite version, where you can open images and adjust exposure, color temp and much more. Browse around, and then let’s make some great HTML5 projects together!
Reza Ali's SuperShapes
2D SuperShapes from Reza on Vimeo.
“SuperShapes are organic shapes that are rendered by evaluating the superformula with different parameters. This formula creates some beautiful and very organic shapes that can be used in other graphics to make a dynamic graphic composition (either interactive or static).”
