prosthetic knowledge
-
The Colour Of
iOS app takes a search term, then creates an abstract collage from Instagram images based on that term:
The Color Of App from Kwok Pan Fung on Vimeo.
What is the color of happiness? Now you have an objective answer with ‘The Color Of’ app. When you search for something, the app will grab pictures from Instagram and overlap them to form an abstract image with a dominant color, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard. You can even explore the creations of other users. Free only on 14 December 2012 launch day, 99 cents thereafter. ‘The Color Of’ app is an art project by independent Singaporean designer, Fung Kwok Pan. It is based on his popular web art experiment to objectively find the colour of things based on Flickr. The iPhone app will be launching on 14th December 2012 for free, and with a price of 99 cents thereafter, based on photos from the Instagram community this time round.
When you search for a term, ‘The Color Of’ finds the Instagram images based on their tags, and overlap them to form an abstract image, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard (with our partners at Sincerely). Colors can also be searched by location or username.
In addition to creating your own, you can explore what the other users have created with the app. The Color Of is an annonymous, free-sharing network where you can view, share or save anyone’s creations.
‘The Color Of’ project adds on to the emerging field of new media and data art, where the work goes beyond a static medium by co-creating an art piece together with the user, the photo community and their ever-changing data. As a mobile app, users now have a piece of the project with them for an extended art experience anywhere and anytime.
From its creation till today, thecolorof.com web experiment has over 300 000 visits. Since thecolorof.com began tracking images created by its users 3 months ago, over 20 000 images have been created.You can find out more here
-
“The humble GIF has had a big year: it turned 25 in June, and was the preferred file format during the recent presidential debates. Now, a new honor has been bestowed upon it — Oxford University Press has dubbed GIF the word of the year in the US, beating out YOLO.” -
SYNESTHETIC CALCULATOR by David Genco
Video installation which employs bokeh to fantastic effect - a world in which numbers and words become key to our surroundings. The examples you see above did not employ any motion graphics software. Video and description below:
Synesthetic Calculator / Video Loops from GENCO on Vimeo.
A project about numerical synesthesia
Starting from my own synesthetic experiences, the project
is an attempt to illustrate the personification of numbers
and their associations with a specific gender, colour, shape
and sound.The actor / viewer controls the projection of 100 videos through the use of a calculator. Every calculation and
result produces a new sequence built up from a range of corresponding videos.
It is up to the viewer to associate numbers to tell his own mnemotechnical story. The repetition and oppressing rhythm of the visuals impress on the viewer as a new way for memorizing large numbers.More about the project can be found at the artist’s website here
-
Live Subtitles
Art installation from 2005 by Gareth Long used speech-recognition software to capture what people were saying around the piece, and were printed onto paper as well as projected onto a screen.
A transcript of one of the captures is available here, although it is very repetitive and almost abstract it has a visual pattern quality as you scroll through.
-
SCRAPPBLE!
Tumblr blog / game where you try to create the highest scoring word with app icons.
The Rules:
Also:
entries must be posted on twitter with #scrappble hashtag!
Put together by animator David O’Reilly.
View all the entries at the Scrappble Tumblr blog here
-
The Holy Bible and The Holy Quran - A Comparison of Words (by Pitch Interactive)
An online interactive visualization of word occurrences and frequency in The Old and New Testaments, and The Quran (in English). Type in a word to see the results. Can be viewed in either HTML 5 or Flash format.
-
![OOF by Edward Ruscha (1962) via Gandalf’s Gallery Modern
Rarely uttered aloud, the work “oof” belongs to the world of comic strips, not the great literature and art, and particularly not to painting. We expect the emphatic word to appear wrapped in a speech bubble with an exclamation point at the end, but Ruscha (American, born 1937) has dedicated a large-scale painting to it as if it were worthy of veneration. Of his work from this period Ruscha has said, “I was interested in monosyllabic word sounds that seemed to have a certain comedic value to them.” In capital letters, “oof” floats against an empty blue backdrop, suspended somewhere between image and language and between iconicity and absurdity. [Oil on canvas, 181.5 x 170.2 cm]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltf5o94HBk1qav3uso1_1280.jpg)
OOF by Edward Ruscha (1962) via Gandalf’s Gallery Modern
Rarely uttered aloud, the work “oof” belongs to the world of comic strips, not the great literature and art, and particularly not to painting. We expect the emphatic word to appear wrapped in a speech bubble with an exclamation point at the end, but Ruscha (American, born 1937) has dedicated a large-scale painting to it as if it were worthy of veneration. Of his work from this period Ruscha has said, “I was interested in monosyllabic word sounds that seemed to have a certain comedic value to them.” In capital letters, “oof” floats against an empty blue backdrop, suspended somewhere between image and language and between iconicity and absurdity.
[Oil on canvas, 181.5 x 170.2 cm] -
EXCEED MAXIMUM (via scene360)
Billboard taking advantage of reflective floor to create simple message at Hamburg Airport.
-
acrostic
noun/əˈkrɒs.tɪk/-ˈkrɑː.stɪk/ [C] specialized
Definition
a text, usually a poem, in which particular letters, such as the first letters of each line, spell a word or phrase
-
Scenius The musician Brian Eno invented a word to describe “genius” as the entirety of a scene, rather than the work of an individual:
Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius.”
You see:
Individuals immersed in a productive scenius will blossom and produce their best work. When buoyed by scenius, you act like genius. Your like-minded peers, and the entire environment inspire you.
The geography of scenius is nurtured by several factors:
• Mutual appreciation
• Rapid exchange of tools and techniques
• Network effects of success
• Local tolerance for the noveltiesWhen you find this place, hold on.
(via crlykd)
-
Concatenation
New word learned today:
- (n) concatenation (the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series)
- (n) concatenation (the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc) “it was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances”
- (n) chain, concatenation (a series of things depending on each other as if linked together) “the chain of command”; “a complicated concatenation of circumstances”
- (n) concatenation (the act of linking together as in a series or chain)
-
lethologica
n. inability to recall a precise word for somethingvia funeral / celestica- / lesfleurettes / aladycreeper
-
Skeuomorph
Skeuomorph or skeuomorphism is a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original.[1] Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar,[2] such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines. The word derives from Greek, skeuos for ‘vessel’ or ‘tool’ and morphe for ‘shape’.
-
(via shriyashriyashriya)
-
