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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!

Wonderful Physics

A Drifting Up from Reza on Vimeo.

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).”

Seven Papervision3D Worlds

http://www.3dgeostats.com/
http://www.creativesunlimited.com/
http://leapday.glg.com/
http://www.flowerbyyou.com/home.php
5 https://nationalgeographic.com/genographic/…
http://www.mycitysoul.com/
7 http://www.dasai.es/

Amazing Collaborative Music Project

This is much more wonderful than the picture makes it look.

“Play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order.”

http://www.inbflat.net/

BMW New Skins

New Shape Shifting tech skins from BMW. The feature makes it possible to change the shape of the car, change the color, adjust for rain, is unscratchable, easy to replace etc.

Audio visualization

Here are two wonderful audio visualizations, one created in OpenFrameworks and one in Flash and Augmented Reality.

AAAA Visuals -Ars Electronica from Aaron on Vimeo.

AR musical instruments from Champagne Valentine on Vimeo.

Text Rain

Camille Utterback has made some really interesting projects, aiming to explore “How we use our bodies to create abstract symbolic systems, and how these systems (language for example) have reverberations on our physical self”. Text Rain is a rather old installation, but shows in a good way a very understandable physical-digital system.