Description

This is a project done in collaboration with YesYesNo. The goal was to turn the historic Ferry Building in downtown Auckland New Zealand into a giant interactive playground.

We used 3 different types of interaction – body interaction on the two stages, hand interaction above a light table, and phone interaction with the tracking of waving phones. There were 6 scenes, cycled every hour for the public. The whole experience lasted 6 nights.

Monsters

The monster scene was a full body interaction – as people danced in front of light boxes their contours would magically transform into a playful monster. As groups of people came together they created giant monsters. see more monsters here

Ferns

This scene is another full body interaction – as people made growing gestures a fern would spawn from their contour. Throughout the scene colorful butterflies would flock toward peoples bellies.

Paint

This scene allowed people to finger paint on the entire building.

Constellations

This scene generated large constellations from the motion of people’s cellphones. The more movement people made caused stars to spill from the building.

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Credits

Interaction Design and Software: YesYesNo Joel Gethin Lewis, Zach Lieberman, Pete Hellicar, Kyle McDonald, Todd Vanderlin w/ Daito Manabe sound design

Projection / Staging: Electric Canvas, Inside Out Productions. Production: The Church, Simon Velvin. Production & Art Direction: Hellicar and Lewis

Thanks to NZ Telecom and the Auckland City Council for supporting this, Peter Milne and all the Team, Simon Velvin and all at the Church, Mike Mizrahi, Marie Adams and all at Inside Out Productions, and Takayuki Ito.

update: It even works on cats via: link

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The app load a series of type images that I created. They are analyzed in realtime in order to fide the whole words and then each individual letter. I created many particle system that react to the each letter. I hope to work on the piece some more and do more of these events. Thanks Josh for getting this together, next stop Boston.


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So now that we have a corrected image to track I need to match the projection to the tabletop. We do a very simalar calibration, this does not feel correct but works. You drag the four points of a quad warping the openGL world to the table. This for the most part works but the distortion of the GL world is weird. There must be a better way to do this.

I have been looking into all the techniques done by other systems like TouchLib and Reactivision. Most are a four point or many point touch calibration system. I have not completely figured this out, this is where I ask for help. What is the best way to do this calibration and setup?

Thanks to Ryan Habbyshaw and The OF Team.

“The Bubelle Dress is made up of two layers, the inner layer contains biometric sensors that pick up a person’s emotions and projects them in colours onto the second layer, the outer textile.” (Daily Mail)

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“The Dragonaut is a student project from the Parsons Making Wireless Toys class, created by Kan Yang Li — it’s a cardboard robot that uses an Arduino kit to give him life: “after you use a key to start him up, his arms raise and lower to proclaim ‘awesome!’”

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Ryan throw me that wireless router. (toss)

Ouch! ohh man you cut me. Yes the wireless router cut me on the hand.

What?!

Oh mg god! Ryan look I thing its a sign from the heavens above. As I look down at my hand I am bleeding in the shape of the iconic mouse cursor. This is the first official record of the Nerd Stigmata.

1. About 10 -12 LED Throwies
2. A fan – We found one on the street.
3. A power supply outside.
4. A crowded place for people to watch.

First You will need to find a fan. We found one on the side of the street. Remove the front cover of the fan. This is so that you can put the Throwies on the blades of the fan.

Attach the LED’s so that one is on one side and one on the other. They will hold eachother onto the blades.

You know need to find a place that has power and is crowded. Union Square was the perfect place to release the LED Throwie Throwie. Open the cover of a street lamp. You will just need to unscrew the bolt (usually just hand tight) and open the lid. You will find a plug conveniently for your fan.

You are now ready to let the fan rip. Start the fan on low let it start up and then turn it on high. Stand back and watch the Throwies Throw.

There are some setbacks with the Ultimate Throwie Throwie. Due to the times that we live in the general public may have concerns of the appearances of an LED. If you just so happen to find yourself in trouble with the authorities for such an act. Blame it on art school. I running into such a situation found it a safe and cheap way out of jail.

In all seriousness LED Throwies are a blast but not to be taken lightly. They are an interesting take on public space and graffiti art. Granted they can harm the environment, but they are removable. If you choose to explore the public realm or graffiti art with LED’s don’t take it out on the authorities. See where the stand on the topic, put yourself in their shoes. They have no choice but to take the appropriate actions. The real fight should be against the people that clutter the public space with junk; the crude and intrusive advertisements. Find those targets and “Throwie” them.

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I am currently enrolled at Parsons School of Design in NYC. I took a class called Geek Graffiti a couple of semester ago. In this class we worked in conjunction with the GRL to create technologies for urban communication. I was very familiar with the technology and LED art, so I had an idea what this was. By no means was I scared or thought was a bomb.

A couple of people outside the bar saw me climb the bridge and grab the LED Ad. People around said that they liked the Ad. “It has been up for a couple of weeks, its nice. It turns on at night.” They even mentioned some artist that they thought it was. By no means were these people scared or threatened by the LED Ad.

The Ad was far out on the bridge so I had a hard time getting to it. It was attached with magnets and hard to get off. I told Ryan to catch it but he missed and it broke. We brought it back to his place and started to dissecting it, I wanted to see how the circuit worked. After some testing I found out the construction of it.

The LEDS are attached to a circuit that takes an average level of the light using a photo resistor. Based on the level of light the LEDs will fade on or off. It is powered by 4 D batteries. The Ad life is about 2 – 3 weeks.

Ryan and I documenting the constriction of the piece and posted it to Make Blog and Flickr. This was about two weeks ago. The response was good. A little after this the creator contacted me and said:

“I am glad you got one of the adult swim signs, there are other’s out there as well so keep looking up. We were hoping that people would take them.” After this the story was over, well until the other day in Boston.

After speaking to many reporters I have to say the whole situation is getting out of hand. I respect the police and authorities for acting on the bomb scare. The bomb squad needed to sit back and realize what the Ad was. The word terrorist or bomb should never have been released to the public unless they were certain.

Take a look at this photo and this photo, The bomb squad should have been able to figure this out, before it got out of hand.

See the whole piece up close.

Update:
The maker sent me some info. I guess that interferenceinc.com
were the ones behind it all. Good stuff.
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“This device has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. This device is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained.”

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I saw some of the future this weekend. Photos

apple vs. fi5e

Jeff Han showed off his magic all over Siggraph. The Multi-Touch Interface stole the show. Many of his works were using his research in LED touch sensors, this technology is amazing. It was so inspiring to see all the work and ideas. I put some photos on flickr.

Update:
Project makes it to PixelMakers

Concept:
IDEA:039 (Interactive Paper) is a collaborative art project. Through interaction with a camera the artist composes a designs in time lapse. The results are then uploaded to Flickr, creating a growing “piece of paper”.


Keep in mind this is new technology. Updates will arrive as the software develops. Uploading take some time, be patient. Hopefully Flash 8.5 and AS3 will fix this problem.

Links:
Project Page
IDEA:039 @ Flickr

Parts List:
2 Jumbo red LEDS
2 100k Potentiometers
Fancy Knobs or Dials
3 Small push buttons
Various Resistors (used to create pitch bend)
Various Capacitors (used to create pitch bend)
Wire
Solder

Links:
Flick Page
Hack Baby Video * exporting now
Hack Baby Audio

Flickr Photos

Tenth Floor
Felissimo Design House
February 22-28, 2006
Felissimo Design House
10 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019

Links:
Instructables
Boing Boing
Urban Data Flickr

Update:
I thought that it was cool to get linked up on BoingBoing until my server went down, 28 GB later. All for a little stupid robotic baby. ha!

Other Mentions:
MAKE: Blog
Digg

Taking “Geek Graffiti” this semester, good stuff going on. keep up.
Flickr Photos

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More info

Boston Globe
New Clip

Lots of stuff happening at Apple, go look! iLife 06, intel, iSights in powerbooks, G5 Powerbooks, ohh man!! Apple

coming soon.

Lords of dog town did it right, lets not ruin that. looks like a good one though.

firstdescentmovie.com
Trailer

wow so this is where iPhoto went. Aperture

I guess I’ll do my write up on the new apple gear. It wasn’t just “one more thing”. The new iMacs are very cool, love the built in features (iSight). The remote is very cool, it would be fun to write some apps for it. The new iPod awesome, finally the video rumors can be put to rest. One comment though, iTunes should remain “iTunes”. Apple needs come out with a video version. Its going to get confusion in the music store. Apple

on a side note. I understand that all the money is in iTunes, but don’t forget about the rest. I haven’t seen any updates for other apps in a long time. iPhoto is struggling, it is a crashing machine. Don’t forget about us little ones. I’m not the only one that feels this way. Link

A possible pic. click
(thanks Brandon)

Slashdot Article
News.com Article

Watch Video
The “suck” sensor, very cool. click

Click

The one man band. Click

check out this. click

www.weddingcrashersmovie.com
My Movie (Davis)
My Movie (Steve)
My Movie (Ryan)

delicious-monster.com

Good site, shows of the art and style of this revolution, there could be more though. They needed to use more of the designs seen on the boards and the style Z-Boys created. The quality of the photos could have been better as well.

Lords of Dog Town
Dog Town and Z-Boys

Lords of Dog Town Trailer
Dog Town and Z-Boys Trailer

Google sight seeing. This is a great concept, but lets make the effort to get out there.

Some UFO sightings via google maps.

UFO Sightings
www.googlesightseeing.com

Awesome installation done by Mark Jenkins. They are made out of packaging tape. The concept is that a giant stork is dropping off babies all over DC.

Site

Tiger is sick, there are a ton of new features and bugs as well. Its great though everyone should get it so we can have more 4-way chats.

Jobs forgot to mention at the keynote that you need to have all the internet connections in the world to make the 4-way work properly. I got it to work, but users come in a little blurry. The requirements are unreal for people to actually host a chat, cool though.

So when is this amazing update going to happen. I want to know about this “home sync”. There is no documentation on it but It will fix this desktop to laptop syncing problem in life, I hope.

Happy Cinco De Mayo, its sunny and beautiful put down your PDA and grab a Corona.

TV Spot

Mega Man Yellow Arrow.

Charles River Yellow Arrow

Genzyme building Yellow Arrow

Hatch Shell Yellow Arrow

The Cyber Arts at Kenddal is fantastic, there are tons of really great exhibits there. You need to go down and take a look.

The end of the day.

Ryan found a treasure map.