This is the most recent outcome of my PhD research: a Layar layer that allows you to visualise dynamic geoRSS feeds with no effort or set-up at all. Just provide the geoRSS feed URL. Here’s an overview:
It is possible to create links that – when viewed on your iPhone – will automatically open Layar, the geoRSS gateway, and your geoRSS feed, using the following format:
layar://georssgateway?CHECKBOXLIST=1&SEARCHBOX=the tinyURL version of your feed
Please use the comments section to report any bugs or suggestions.
There is a rich pallet of user-friendly tools on the web today that can be mixed and matched (and mashed) together to produce incredible
results. Artists and designers are the perfect practitioners to apply lateral thinking and creativity to their engagement with these tools. There is just a small step to grasping them, which can be eased by real-world examples and demonstrations.
DETAILS
We will be looking at cutting-edge photo-reconstruction software, to learn how to take images and finish with a real 3D printed object! Other tools introduced are video hosting (YouTube, Vimeo), image hosting (Flickr, Picassa), blogs and online maps (Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap, Google Maps), exploring how they can be combined into exciting new visualisations using mashup tools (Yahoo Pipes, Dipity).
The workshop is intended to teach this collection of exciting tools, and help facilitate the development of ideas participants may want to bring along. Participants can work individually or collaboratively, and after an initial introduction to each tool, studio work will begin with hands-on assistance.
OUTCOME
There’ll be an opportunity to print your own reconstructed objects, and finished projects will be presented and documented at the end of the workshop, and displayed on the workshop website.
INTERESTED?
Please email josh.harle@gmail.com indicating if you can attend all or select sessions. We have limited places and will favour choosing full participants.
The Experimental Society conference at Lancaster University has just happened, and it was a rich mix of different takes on the need for, danger of, and nature of experimentation of one form or another.
My paper was on Michel de Certeau and how we experience space (…and place/location/architecture), and how our engagement with it can take the form of experimentation. It travels via Heidegger and Deleuze and Guattari, and quietly stewarded by Bachelard, and Debord.
Friend, Artist and aspiring Architect Melody Williams has just installed these chalk boxes in Camperdown Memorial Park. See if you can find them and have a draw.
The park is located in the centre of Newtown, Sydney’s hip, alternative suburb. A long wall down the length of it forms a great canvas for graffiti, and it is constantly being reworked. I’ve made a PhotoSynth of the wall, that lets you navigate along it and zoom in to areas of interest. As well as the images I’ve taken, there are a handful of Creative Commons Flickr images, and this lets you see how the graffiti has changed in the last few weeks. I’ll go back in a few weeks and add more images to the set, and hopefully capture some changed sections and overwritten marks.
View the PhotoSynth to navigate through the park (you will need to download the Silverlight plugin first-time).
Here in Sydney at the moment we are in the middle of Vivid Sydney, a festival of “light, music and ideas”. As part of the festival, a number of historic buildings are being “augmented” with projected animations telling their history in an intervention called Macquarie Visions:
Macquarie Visions casts a new light onto Sydney’s ceremonial street, celebrating in stunning and immersive light displays, the 200th anniversary and story of two great visionary leaders, Governor Lachlan Macquarie and his wife Elizabeth.
The Macquaries’ innovations are revealed with illuminating, theatrical and contemporary light displays in a family friendly free night…
These projections are effectively an analogue version of the sort of Augmented Reality applications we should expect to see in the next few years. (In fact, the AusWiki AR layer does a similar job of pulling up Wikipedia entries associated with important Sydney buildings.) Here, the City has a vested interest in presenting a specific version of history, for the sake of promoting Sydney. The “family friendly” narrative of Sydney space excludes a great deal from its account of history.
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