Sur America!
I am in the drain covers mood… this Frog-Tadpole one won’t last an hour in Bogotá :(
Frog-Tadpole drain cover in Vancouver BC
mmmm another cool musical project about how any suface could be an instrument: Touch Interfaces everywhere
This is kind of amazing: if you put a contact microphone on a hard surface and then process the sound in realtime, you can turn that surface into a touch screen…or a programmable musical instrument.
Zamborlin’s own words, here’s how the magic is accomplished:
Through gesture recognition techniques we detect different kind of fingers-touch and associate them with different sounds. In the video we used two different audio synthesis techniques:
- physic modelling, which consists in generating the sound by simulating physical laws;
- concatenative synthesis (audio mosaicing), in which the sound of the contact microphone is associated with its closest frame present in a sound database.
Generative Beethoven: Dramatic visualization of Beethoven ninth symphony
Tangerine Tango named 2012′s Color of the Year
Chosen because of its “sophisticated and dramatic undertones,” Tangerine Tango (Pantone 17-1463) is a continuation of last year’s winner, Honeysuckle (Pantone 18-2120). The 2011 winner was said to be “inspiration to face life’s everyday troubles with verve and vigor,” with Tangerine Tango building off of that by giving an “energy charge” to move forward. Pretty dramatic language, but these people takes their colors seriously.
”first ever social network ecosystem exploration tool” Platar reveals All User Actions’ How many moere user actions Facebook will add in 2012? it will be interesting to see how the circle grows ….
The center is the user profile, from which users interact with the icons present in the inner-most circle. Each icon represents a specific area on Facebook, such as Events, Photos, or Apps. The outer-most ring then shows the different features that can be performed, according to the inner-most area. Lastly, the colorful dots represent actions, or ways users are able to interact with these areas. Tooltips then present detailed information about each shown keyword.
via: infosthetics.com
