What we do is what we do. The brand new DEVO video takes the crowd-sourcing/focus-grouping element of their album
Something For Everybody to the music video world. It's a 360-degree video where the user can control the camera. (For the lazy among us, there's also a "random" button that moves from shot to shot.) The link also includes a brief interview with DEVO co-founder/video co-director Gerald V. Casale.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me
on Apr 19, 2011 -
15 comments
A Year at War: One
Battalion's Wrenching Deployment to Afghanistan: "Some 30,000 American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division" out of Fort Drum, NY., based in
Kunduz Province, Afghanistan. Over the next year, The New York Times will follow their journey, chronicling the battalion’s part in the surge in northern Afghanistan and the impact of war on individual soldiers and their families back home.
(First link is an interactive feature containing images and autoplaying video, and requires flash. Second link is a standard-style article.) [more inside]
posted by zarq
on Oct 21, 2010 -
28 comments
Seaquence "...is an experimental musical petri-dish. Adopting a biological metaphor, Seaquence allows you to create and combine musical lifeforms into unique, dynamic compositions."
posted by gwint
on Sep 29, 2010 -
2 comments
"With the midterm elections in the U.S. Senate just six weeks away, everyone is wondering how the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats will shake out after November 2." Wonder no more with Google's
2010 U.S. Election Ratings Map. Information can be filtered by state, type of race (senate, governor, house), and by source. A Google Maps
blog entry has more detailed info for those who want to dig deeper into the application. [via
TechCrunch]
posted by bayani
on Sep 21, 2010 -
20 comments
Pinball - a fun brainstorming and decisionmaking online tool from the BBC.
posted by Miko
on Aug 24, 2010 -
4 comments
Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other, or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them. We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they don’t interfere or inhabit our space. But what if they were not so stable and subservient?
What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly? And what if they did so all at the same time? This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings.
Each object is assigned to a letter on the keyboard, and can be activated or deactivated at any time.
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posted by netbros
on Feb 22, 2010 -
19 comments
" There were lots of small children in the audience. I thought about asking one little girl if she had voted for the paddle, the rod or the cattle prod." In 1995, a company called
Interfilm revolutionized the movie industry.
Oh, no, wait, it didn't. Audiences at Mr. Payback, "the first interactive movie," pressed buttons on a joystick attached to their seat to vote on the actions of the characters on-screen -- for instance, what kind of physical abuse a captured thug should undergo. Despite the pedigree of director Bob Gale (writer/producer of
Back to the Future) and co-star Christopher Lloyd,
critics were not impressed. The company folded a week after releasing its third interfilm, "I'm Your Man," scored by Joe Jackson, which did, a few years Interfilm was the brainchild of "conceptualist" and guy-with-gigantic-glasses Bob Bejan (
Dateline NBC interview), who now works at a
next-generation, data-driven marketing agency that delivers strategic, multi-channeled communication solutions designed to cultivate and sustain relationships between brands and their audiences. Watch:
Clips from "Mr. Payback."
The making of "I'm Your Man." (warning: A. Whitney Brown.) Read: the New York Times
on the 1998 DVD release of "I'm Your Man." Booklet copy from the "I'm Your Man" DVD.
posted by escabeche
on Aug 31, 2009 -
43 comments
Journalism may be going through a painful period but thanks to the web the once lowly information graphic is finally growing up to be all it never could on paper. Especially the New York Times seems to currently stand out in how frequently and quickly they build amazingly detailed and insightful interactive features. Consider the
tracking of US Airways Flight 1549 or the piece on
raising its engine from the Hudson. Other recent highlights:
9,955,441 parking tickets issues in NYC mapped by street,
The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008,
Ansel Adams's Yosemite,
the view from the 10-meter platform explained,
A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses 1789 to the Present,
A Map of the number of medals that countries won in summer Olympic Games,
Going to the End of the Line,
The 44 Places to go in 2009, an explanation of
how the Pentagon responded to criticism of then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld,
The Soyuz Spacecraft,
How the Towers Stood and Fell and
many,
many, more.
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posted by krautland
on Feb 14, 2009 -
16 comments
Survive the Outbreak: Interactive zombie movie. At certain points of the movie you will be prompted to make a choice.
What would you do?
You'll most certainly die, but at least you get to come back and try again.
*
NSFW due to profanity.
posted by bwg
on Sep 27, 2008 -
48 comments
The Eco Zoo - some amazing Japanese 3D Flash. If you take a close look at the animals there... you might be able to get some tips to live in a more environmentally friendly way!
posted by Artw
on Sep 13, 2008 -
13 comments
World Names Profiler is a pretty amazing Flash tool, that allows you to see where other people with your last name are distributed across the world, in frequency per million, right down to the city and regional level. Fun to pair with the
NameVoyager.
posted by dgaicun
on Sep 10, 2008 -
93 comments
"Double-Taker (Snout)" by Golan Levin with Lawrence Hayhurst, Steven Benders and Fannie White "...deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant's trunk, which responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity...."
Googly Eyebot. (
via)
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posted by Kronos_to_Earth
on Aug 13, 2008 -
3 comments
The Devil's Tramping Ground is a barren circle in the forest in North Carolina. As a result of nothing having grown within the circle for at least the last hundred years, it has become the subject of some of that state's oldest legends. John Harden, a journalist, newspaper editor and author said of that place
"... the story is that the Devil goes there to walk in circles as he thinks up new means of causing trouble for humanity. There sometimes during the dark of night, the Majesty of the Underworld of Evil silently tramps around that bare circle; thinking, plotting, and planning against good, and in behalf of wrong. So far as is known, no person has ever spent the night there to disprove this is what happens.". No person until you came along and played
this neat interactive flash movie, that is.
posted by Effigy2000
on May 29, 2008 -
21 comments
