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Elena

Inspired by the work of computer graphics pioneer John Whitney, Elena is a simple iPhone toy that allows you to create beautiful Lissajous wave patterns that gently oscillate across the screen. Tap and hold to create a new pattern – the longer you hold a finger down the bigger your pattern will be. Whilst [...] (translate)

Yuugen

Yuugen is a simple musical toy created for SCR, a creative label for screen media from Japan’s THA. The idea of creating a very simple musical toy came about when I watched my two year old niece Elena play with the lovely Bloom iPhone app from Brian Eno. I loved the fact that she just [...] (translate)

Layer Tennis - massacre on Friday 13th

It’s the morning after the night before. The night that was my Layer Tennis match with Jeffrey Kalmikoff. It had good bits, bad bits and things in between. Here’s how I saw it. Well I have to say all day I had been pretty nervous about it. You realise that thousands of people are watching. [...] (translate)

Adventures with a Nabaztag - wifi enabled rabbit!

Ever since I wrote in my book Analog In, Digital Out, how I hooked up a doorbell to my Mac so it rang when a visitor came to my site, I’ve always been fascinated with connecting real world objects to the internet. But the doorbell thing was a complete hack, involving java, a Making [...] (translate)

Polaroid

After December 31st 2008, Polaroid will cease to manufacture any more instant film. Whilst there is probably going to be enough stock around to see you through 2009, it’s effectively the end of an era for this iconic approach to photography. Remember when you first saw how a Polaroid works? It was like something magical [...] (translate)

Adventures with Amazon S3 and Flash

Amazon S3 is a cost effective online storage solution. But more than just being a place for you to store or back up files, it can also be used to serve files out to the web. So having recently launched 100 Feelings Felt which stores images on a server, I didn’t want those images [...] (translate)

100 Feelings Felt

I remember when I was a kid I loved to make short films on Super 8 in the back garden with my friends. Mostly they were sci-fi type epics and even had cutting edge special effects - i.e. me taking a scalpel to the film negative frame by frame to make laser beam effects. [...] (translate)

oRganiSmS

A new way to view RSS, oRganiSmS creates tiny graphic “creatures” from the items in an RSS feed. Simply enter your RSS address, or someone else’s, and watch as bizarre shapes are formed. Each item is always unique, with the “seed” for each shape being created from the domain name. A supershape algorithm is then [...] (translate)

DoodleBuzz

DoodleBuzz is a typographic news explorer that uses an experimental interface to create information maps of news events. By simply scribbling a line you can explore connected subjects all powered by those wonderfully clever people at DayLife. DoodleBuzz (translate)

Dynamic Colour (Color) Harmony with Actionscript

If you’re familiar with the fab Nodebox, a Python based app for creating 2D graphics, then you may have come across the really impressive colour library. It allows you to do wonderful things with colour such as finding complementary colours to a base colour and even finding colours that go with keywords such as [...] (translate)

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