Nick Hardeman (via A Look at Those Creatively Working Outside the Box | Fuel Your Creativity
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I am working on a tool that will allow for simple comparison of two texts, centring around word usage.
In this case I have used two of President Obama’s speeches: the first in July at the University of Cairo, and the second in November at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
The tool allows us to see which words were shared by both text (the words in the middle), which words were used the most (the biggest words), and when, on average, each word was used in each text.
By highlighting individual words or groups of words, we can see excerpts from the texts and see exactly when each word was used.
This project will be released as an open-source software tool soon.
Built with Processing v.1.0
Immaterials:A new film by Timo Arnall for Touch and Jack Schulze for BERG. This is the final version of the raw footage Jack was showing me on his jesusphone at the WIRED UK launch gig (by which time I’d drunk at least one bottle of Irish whiskey).
There are 4 billion RFID tags in the world. They may soon outnumber the people. Readers and tags are increasingly embedded in the things and environments in which we live. How do readers see tags? When we imagine RFID and their invisible radio fields, what should we see? Immaterials explains the experiments we have performed to see RFID as it sees itself.
Via Warren Ellis.
Dada Visualization I
Quoth Quasimondo:
One of the 8 works I created for the Data Art Show at the Pink Hobo Gallery in Minneapolis.
All these pieces are a pun on the new craze for data visualization. The goals of data visualization as I understand them are to make complicated issues more understandable, to make obscured connections visible and to reveal hidden patterns in the data. After all these tasks have been solved ideally the result should be aesthetically pleasing as well.
But when I look around what is being done in data visualization today I have the suspicion that in many cases the design is more important than the actual information and that the use of data is more an excuse to justify the use of aesthetics.
Since I do not have a problem with aesthetics for their own sake in these pieces I deliberately took the opposite direction. Since I wanted to create something visually interesting I made up my own data which would give me the desired results. All these works are the result of generative algorithms, so all the elements and their connections are actually data and not something I assembled manually in Illustrator.via @lennyjpg
been thinking about this kind of stuff for a little while now - more thoughts to come
