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Muto

Jonathan — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:16:01 +0000

“An ambiguous animation painted on public walls”. Really rather good indeed and I can’t believe how long it lasts for! More here.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

I Want You To Want Me

Jonathan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:45:05 +0000

Amazing interactive installation that scrapes data from dating sites. Really beautiful and tip of the iceberg when it comes to the web powering art. It’s all about human beings and we’re slowly but surely coming back to that. Being human on the web is something I am extremely passionate about.

The interactive installation “I Want You To Want Me”, by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, for their “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition.

I Want You To Want Me explores the search for love and self in the world of online dating. It chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, using real data collected from Internet dating sites every few hours.

The piece is presented on a 56″ high-resolution touch-screen, hanging vertically on the wall, and was installed at MoMA on February 14, 2008, Valentine’s Day.

[Via Noah Brier]

Good things should never end

Jonathan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:37:36 +0000

Nice work for Orange done by Poke. Like it a lot – been having a good play around.

Actually a quick idea too. There’s loads of content being generated by people from Poke evey single day. Why don’t you just aggregrate all content from everyone on the main Poke site rather than having an “obligatory blog” that was last updated in March? Sure you’re all over it . . . . but it makes me sad to see that empty little blog.

The 7 best ads of 2007?

Jonathan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:46:34 +0000

Look here. Yes, the gorilla is in there. According to Altogether Digital, who by the look of a quick peek around their site know their stuff, are bloody good at what they do and can get a story high up on Digg to help increase their blog readership rather nicely. Altogether rather good. Wonder if we all agree?

Square Leg Dance GIF

Jonathan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:46:08 +0000

Don’t worry – I’m not just going to post GIFs every few days . . . But – here’s one my mate Tom created to go into the best man speech at my wedding, basically taking the mickey out of my dancing skills. Anyway, I thought it was cool and I’m glad a GIF made an extra special appearance on the day (as well as a reference to my love of the Mac).

PS – was a lot younger when the headshot was taken . . .

ASCII coded geeky curtains

Jonathan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:26:44 +0000

I love stuff like this where geekery makes its way into the real world. Here’s a lovely pair of curtains complete with ASCII tree graphic, found via the amazing We Make Money Not Art blog, ran by Regine Debatty who I had the pleasure of bumping into at PSFK London a while back. Um, how many links can I cram in one sentence?

Clip Art

Jonathan — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:11:28 +0000

Remember that? Blimey how things have come along. Accidentally hit the Insert>Picture>ClipArt button today and it bought back lots of memories.

Wicked! Rad! Cool!

Jonathan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:21:39 +0000

If there was one thing that might have benefitted from a bit of collaboration/UGC it was the design process for the London 2012 logo. What if they’d stuck out an open brief, allowed agencies and individuals to enter and got the nation to vote for their favourite? It looks much better animated but as a static thing, not so sure. It reminds me of those stickers you got free in cereals in the early 90s . . .

Here’s the petition. Help us help ourselves.

Online/Offline

Jonathan — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:42:24 +0000

PR Blogger has a good post on the entertainment industry and news that Lonelygirl15 is set to star in a movie (!), along with other examples where the line is blurring between the on and offline worlds.

I also came across this today which is a really great example of digital media content making its way into offline media – Creative Review turning a rather nice blog post on Noisy Decent Graphics into a full page feature a month or so later.

As Russell Davies points out (as does Ben when he posts about the above) sooner or later everything real becomes digital and everything digital becomes real. Bring it on I say and make it quicker.