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Came across some of the “iamamiwhoami” vids at the end of last year and meant to follow up but have been too busy. The names of the vids look like coordinates and sure enough the folks at unfiction are on the case.

The marriage of ARGs and music is such a natural fit. NiN did an effective take on it with Year Zero a few years back. In fact many have thought these viral vids are the work of NiN and earlier tonight Trent Reznor tweeted

Nice little collab between American Apparel and Protein channel LOOKBOOK.nu

Our boy Bjorn has made this rather awesome messaging service. Best of all it's 100% Chromo Enabled.

Josefa Garcia Rojas walks through the eerily barren streets of Potosi, a small Venezuelan city where she lived most of her 84 years, amid the skeletons of trees and groups of curious onlookers. This is the first time she's stepped foot here since she and a thousand other residents were forced to flee their homes to make way for a hydroelectric dam being built to block the water of a river that ran through town. It's been 26 years since then, but due to an unprecedented drought in the region, Petosi has reemerged from the murky depths. While it may bring some nostalgic comfort to Josefa and others to see the town's old church once again--there's the creeping sense that all is not well.

/via treehugger

Wasted Spaces has commissioned Hellicar & Lewis to develop The Hello Wall. This installation uses Twitter to let the public interact with the huge wall projection on Wembley High Road.

Starting Monday 8th March, you can get involved by Tweeting commands to @thehellowall, or shapes (triangles, squares, circles), commands (more, less, shake) or just hello.

Hellicar & Lewis are a London-based duo – Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis. They have embraced the open source revolution which creates art that is accessible and interactive.

The artists explain the artwork in more detail as follows:
“In visual terms, The Hello Wall will be a simple single colour background, with a foreground of simple shapes, in a physically realistic two dimensional simulation. Imagine a series of red circles on an orange background, bouncing off each other in zero gravity.
The installation is designed to empower people, to allow them to have a creative input into the architectural space that they find themselves in – often without any sense of control or ownership.”

Our boy INSA is rolling big time at the Tate Britain as part of the awesome Chris Ofili show ... and we've got some exclusive pictures of his work for you right here:

Protein friend David Bausola's latest project is taking the social conversation to a whole new level. Props to the Herdmeister for the tipoff.

I often post about data viz. Here’s a nice animated vid that compares internet data across services, outlets and country.

234 million websites

126 million blogs

12.2 billion videos viewed monthly on youTube (US)

1.4 billion email users

1.73 billion internet users

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

MIT’s Futures of Entertainment conference is held each fall. I had the privilege of speaking at the event in 2008. It’s an amazing mix of people from various sides of the industry. This past year the conference had a number of excellent transmedia focused panels. In the following panel the team behind Purefold give an inside look at the project.

I’ve been tracking thesixtyone for a bit. The first version of the site matched social gaming with music discovery. The newest incarnation has taken a slightly different approach one which is more discovery focused with a mix of simple challenges called quests that encourage you to listen to music and gain reputation points.

The part I love about the new design is the simplicity and richness of the interface.

Via Koldcast

One of the more interesting launches at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week is the Puma Phone. It's a white labeled Sagem with a few extra "sporty and fun" features, so we will watch how this one develops with interest.

With Protein TV shortly returning (shhh, don't tell anyone), I thought I'd share this Jim Jarmusch classic featuring GZA, RZA and Bill Murray getting "delirium" over coffee and cigarettes:

Props to Mr Moo for the link.

Of course you could look at the picture on the box but this is a cool use of AR to demo the contents prior to purchase.

Meet “Yuki-taro, the friendly snowbot” – for a million yen you can have a Snow Removal Robot that clears snow while creating igloo bricks, is GPS enabled and uses twin cameras to see.

(hat tip inventorspot)

http://www.super-collider.com/sciencefair

http://www.absolut.com/uk/imhere/events

This film was produced by Architecture Masters student Keiichi Matsuda, as part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality.

Very much looking forward to the release of Bioshock 2 which comes out this week. I’d love to get my hands on the game bible that I’ve heard rumors about – Bioshock is a rich game world while at the same time haunting, beautiful and bizzare.

Recent D&AD winner and comes c/o the clever folks at Mytton Williams.

To mark the day one month before Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie hits theaters, Alice 2010 presents their Cheshire Cat paper toy.

Build your own Cheshire Cat and download + unzip the pdf file (283KB) here: Cheshire Cat

1. print it out on 60# card stock.
2. score the dotted lines.
3. fold the dotted lines.
4. cut out the pieces following the solid lines second.
5. glue everything together using the tabs.

The WorkBook Project joined forces with Filmmaker Magazine to produce a number of daily videos from Park City. SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.

Enter The Ninja is an awesome video by South African band Die Antwoord (translated: The Answer).

Check it.

PS: I SO want a Yin Yang shirt.

A visual snapshot of internet consumption – provides an interesting look at the state of the internet in 2009.

Printable Valentine card by EMpapers

Inside reads: ‘Can’t you see I Love You?’. An instant printable valentine card, just download, print and fold. A2 envelope template included.

An orchestral milk float, robots drawing humans, and a family of holographic beings as well as other immersive experiences and arty happenings at the second annual Kinetic Art Fair.

February 4th - 7th 2010, P3, 35 Marylebone Road, W1 London.

Cool industrial ring by KinektDesign.com

Kinekt Design’s Gear Ring from Glen Liberman on Vimeo.

We've been waiting for this for a while and now can show you a sneak peek of the future of online video. Please be upstanding for HTML5.

What's all the fuss about? No flash, no plugins, no buffering issues, no worries. Yes, this is what Steve has been waiting for and one of the main reasons why you find any Adobe products on your iPhone. Props once again to cousin Ciaran for the linkage.

Kate, Naomi, Kristen, Amber, Natalia, Daria, Jeneil and Lara shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot.

Out on Feb 8th.