MetaFilter posts tagged with interactive

Britain Can Make It!

Miko — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:53:28 -0800

Making the Modern World presents a set of twisty little passages through the history of science and invention, from the eighteenth century to the contemporary era, brought to you by the UK's Science Museum.

Choose your own misadventure: the story of Interfilm

escabeche — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:45:32 -0800

" 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.

For the Unemployed, the Day Stacks Up Differently

splatta — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:18:15 -0800

How are Americans spending their time? An informational graphic from The New York Times.

Mi Vida Loca

skoosh — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:32:08 -0800

Courtesy of the BBC, an award-winning mystery masquerading as a language education program. Mi Vida Loca is a rather interesting series of interactive, self-guided Spanish conversation exercises for English-speaking users; what's novel about them is that they are embedded within a "you are there" story about a woman whose job as a journalist has apparently earned her some shady enemies. Simple tasks like paying for a meal or buying a bus ticket take on a heightened urgency as you struggle not only to learn the language and make your way around a foreign country, but also to catch up with your mysterious new friend and find out what's really going on. The series recently (as in about a week ago) won a BAFTA TV Craft Award for Interactive Innovation - Service Platform.

You are about to enter the Gallipoli Peninsula at Z Beach

tellurian — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:21:14 -0800

Gallipoli: The First Day [flash] An ABC documentary site about the WW1 ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, on 25 April 1915.

Khmer Rouge

metastability — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:58:50 -0800

A visualization of the estimated 1.4 million deaths resulting from the Khmer Rouge. (Single Link Big Picture) There is no "more inside", thank goodness.

Brooklyn Revealed

Miko — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:29:23 -0800

Brooklyn Revealed

interactive feature highlights

krautland — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:50:15 -0800

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. I am of course aware that it's not just the NYT that's doing great interactive work these days. one example I particularly like is the Los Angeles County Homicide Map but they closed down the accompanying blog. please do feel free to add more great examples. I'm merely trying to get the ball rolling.

YouTube Street Fighter

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:56:38 -0800

YouTube Street Fighter (single link interactive youtube game)

Selfcontrolfreak

johnny novak — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:45:47 -0800

Selfcontrolfreak: experiments in video interactivity.

He Chose ... Poorly.

bwg — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:18:41 -0800

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.

That giant fountain projection thing

Artw — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:39:58 -0800

Primal source at GLOW (video), Burble London (an implementation of Open Burble) (video), Evoke (video) - the transformative artworks of Haque Design and Research. Interview with Usman Haque. Previously.

Ecoda dobutsuen

Artw — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:58:46 -0800

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!

Not Potter. But smarter?

skyper — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:44:02 -0800

Crushed fans of Harry Potter expressed outrage upon learning they must wait another 8 months for the newest film installment. The timing of the announcement rather handily coincides with the release of Scholastic's "39 Clues" -- a book whose blend of interactive intrigue is supposed to take over young readers' imaginations where Harry leaves off. Already user groups are scheduling events based on the book's premise.

Surname Surfin' Sur-prises

dgaicun — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:38:44 -0800

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.

"Telescopic Text"

dobbs — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:30:30 -0800

I made tea. {Flash, I think. Via notcot.}

Googly Eyebot

Kronos_to_Earth — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:56:43 -0800

"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) Golan Levin's Double-Taker (Snout) Flickr set. And his Opto-Isolator is keeping track of things, too....

Phyta

juv3nal — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:19:18 -0800

Phyta. Downloadable (windows, linux) interactive thing. (via PlayThisThing) I hesitate to call it a game because you can't really lose and it just loops on the last level forever as far as I can tell. But boy is it pretty. Bonus linkage: the next installment of shift is out. (previously)

screamyGuy

brundlefly — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:39:39 -0800

screamyGuy: Random Acts of Programming [created using Processing]

The Devil's Tramping Ground

Effigy2000 — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:28:51 -0800

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.

Interactive Architecture

desjardins — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:32:13 -0800

Interactive Architecture is for both geeks and design freaks. Lots of interesting and WTF stuff here, like SandScapes, Funky Forests, Swarming Structures, Colour Responsive Chairs, and Jelly Architecture. Not to mention the amazing Touch, a tower with 4200 windows equipped with RGB color LEDs that can be controlled by passersby.

May 1968

djgh — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:37:22 -0800

An interactive audiovisual tour [flash, audio] of the student protests in Paris in May 1968. Part of a larger look at 1968. [Previously]

Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:03:29 -0800

Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Interactive 3D concept mapping...does your brain work like this?

Miko — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:04:06 -0800

Family Tree of the Greek Gods is a site using a visual organizer (now in beta) called Spicy Nodes. They call it a "natural and inviting" way to present information in "nuggets" that move in virtual space as you view them one by one. Another example: Daylight Savings Time.

Gravityland

Miko — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:54:06 -0800

Gravityland. Interactive Web TV series. Watch weekly episodes, respond, contribute. Read blog. Add moves to music video. Play Where in the world is Gravityland? Read comic book. Build FAQ. Somehow, it's all related, and all possibility. Auteur: MeFi's own John Herman. Via.