Ever wanted to track some data from your everyday life? Perhaps, perhaps not, but if you do then Daytum is the app to help you do it. Via it’s beautiful layout you can track and graph progress in your daily life in a variety of ways. (via It’s Nice That)
0100101110101101.org is the home of digital rebels Eva and Franco Mattes. Creating compelling digital and physical art since 1998 these two seek to obtain ‘the largest visibility with minimal effort’. Their projects include internet collages, fake artists and a computer virus to name a few. I really enjoy their shock tactics and also the convergence / blurred reality between online and physical life.
Taiwa-Hensokuki is an installation by Yuko Mohri, where two IBM notebooks ‘converse’ with each other with speech synthesis and speech recognition software. As they continue in this process the original message becomes transformed and distorted (perhaps in the same way as in a game of Chinese whispers).
Pimp My Logo is an awesome motion graphics initiative by Tom Hemeryk. You send in your logo in vector format and Tom will pimp it into a 2 or 3 second motion ident. Some of these idents are absolutely amazing and wouldn’t look out of place on bradcast television.
Minimaforms are and architecture and design form who build experimental and ephemeral structures designed to engage and experiment. Shown above is a still from their ‘smoke signals‘ installation which explores the dynamics of smoke and light integrated with todays SMS technology.
Here’s an idea that’s long overdue. Collabfinder is a website that helps you easily find other like minded people to collaborate on that idea/project you’ve had on the backburner for so long.
Humus is a long standing e-zine showcasing some great work in the fields of art, design, motion, illustration, literature, photography and more. Currently at issue 12 it’s definitely worth checking out for a rather interesting diversion.
In a similar vein to Subblue, Art From Code has some wonderful examples of the beauty of generative art.
