wireframes, the other kind

nice.
http://www.thomasraschke.de/wireframes/index.html



not the wireframes i work on every day!!

CHUMBY: hackable web appliance with silly name

http://www.chumby.com/

From their site:

"Introducing the chumby, a compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web: music, the latest news, box scores, animations, celebrity gossip...whatever you choose. And a chumby can exchange photos and messages with your friends. Since it's always on, you’ll never miss anything.

it’s versatile

Wake yourself up to mp3s, or load up your chumby with tons of other useful and amusing widgets.
affordable

Well, it's not for sale yet but we're shooting for $150 or less — stay tuned. Nothing extra to buy, nightstand-ready.

Open inside and out

For the true geek, the electronics are "hackable," the case is removable. Your chumby can look however you like (bling-it-yourself or choose from 3rd party options). Stay tuned — who knows what creative programmer-types will make it do?
"

thanks to kevin for the link

The New York International Gift Fair at the Javitz Center - Winter 2007

The gift fair is a totally amazing place to get new products or new ideas, and to get a sense of the general zeitgeist of trends in the home product/design world.

It's not actually publicized as such, but it's free for students, so i went to take a look...it was an amazing lesson in how the business works as well as a wealth of good new ideas, materials, and manufacturing processes to check out.

highly recommended!!

There's another one in the summer that's supposed to be even better, in case you missed this one.

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Dates and hours: (read more on their site)

January 28 – February 1, 2007
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Passenger Ship Terminal Piers, and the Metropolitan Pavilion


Sunday 1/28 – Tuesday 1/30:

9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center & Passenger Ship Terminals: all divisions

Metropolitan Pavilion: New York’s Newest, Extracts®, and the New York Home Textiles Show®

Wednesday 1/31:

9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center & Passenger Ship Terminals: all divisions

9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Metropolitan Pavilion: New York’s Newest, Extracts®, and the New York Home Textiles Show®

Thursday 2/1:

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center & Passenger Ship Terminals: all divisions

League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots! Tonight in Brooklyn!

TRANZDUCER
The first in a monthly series of performances and installations at LEMURplex

Date: Friday, Jan. 26, 2007
Time: 8 to 11 p.m.
Address: 461 3rd Ave (between 9th & 10th Sts), Brooklyn, NY
Cost: $5

Performances by
Jamie Allen/Circuit Music (http://heavyside.net)
Loud Objects/Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta, Katie Shima
(http://www.loudobjects.com)
Joshua Fried/Radio Wonderland (http://radiowonderland.org)

Installations by
LEMUR
Eric Singer
Rocio Barcia
Leif Krinkle
Nick Sears
Joshua Goldberg

More information at http://www.lemurplex.org/tranzducer

By subway:
Take the F/M/R to 4th Ave. and walk one block down either 9th or 10th
St. to 3rd Ave. LEMURplex is on 3rd Ave. between 9th & 10th Sts. Or,
take the F/G to Smith & 9th Sts. and walk two blocks up 9th. Cross
and then turn right onto 3rd Ave.

Google Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=461+3rd+Avenue,+Brooklyn,+NY+11215&ie=UTF8&om=1

oldie but goodie: nice interface reminder: NID GALLERY

i keep forgetting the url for this site, and since del.icio.us makes it so hard to find anything (see previous post). I will post it here instead!

lalala i have a blog lalala!

here is the link: http://www.nagaoka-id.ac.jp/gallery/gallery.html

PLEASE NO FORGET ME

i hate del.icio.us so i use my blog instead

I hate del.icio.us. I can never find anything! What people need is a more visual way to display their bookmarks.

it would be great to visualize your friends network and see their bookmarks in a visual format, maybe something like FlickrGraph, but with screenshots of websites instead of people's faces.

Doug Aitken's Sleepwalkers Opening Tonight at MOMA

TONIGHT!! When else are you going to get to see huge projections on the MOMA's exterior walls?


get more info on the Creative Time site
more info on the MOMA site

From the moma site: "The Museum of Modern Art and Creative Time, the New York–based public art organization, have jointly commissioned Doug Aitken to create the artist's first large-scale public artwork in the United States. The project is also the first to bring art to MoMA's exterior walls. Continuous sequences of film scenes will be projected onto eight facades, including those on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets and those overlooking The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Inspired by the densely built environment of New York's midtown, the artist will create a cinematic art experience that directly integrates with the architectural fabric of the city while simultaneously enhancing and challenging viewers' perceptions of public space. The project, filmed in New York City, will be shown daily from 5:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., and is intended to be visible from many public vantage points adjacent to the Museum."

Event Tonight at AIA

Jason Bruges Studio

Visual Echo Discussion and Exhibition Opening

Friday, 01/12/2007, 5:30–10:00pm (RSVP)
5:30pm to 6:30pm Designer Jason Bruges, Jason Bruges Studio, presents his work followed by a talk with Randy Sabedra, President, IESNY

6:30pm - 10:00pm Exhibition Opening Party

Visual Echo: This interactive light installation acts as a meandering ribbon of light by remembering the colors visitors wear. While also recording the rhythm and frequency of visitors, the ribbon transforms the viewer's perception of space. Using cutting edge LED tiles, this work by Jason Bruges Studio demonstrates exciting new potentials and questions how light, space and color can interrelate in architectural space. Exhibition on view January 12 through March 10, 2007.

Speakers: Jason Bruges, Jason Bruges Studio, Randy Sabedra, President, IESNY;
Party - 6:30pm to 10:00pm;
RSVP Required;
Must be over the age of 21 to attend
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter, Illuminating Engineering Society, New York Section, the International Committee AIA New York Chapter, and the Royal Society of the Arts
Sponsored by: Color Kinetics and SKYY90

*presented as part of the SKYY90 Diamond Design Series
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)

Color by Numbers - Cellphone / Light Installation

this article from Metropolis Magazine explains it well

With the use of a touch tone phone, viewers can watch as they change the windows’ colors on a Stockholm landmark, the Telefonplan tower.

here's the artists' site: http://colourbynumbers.org

they even have a live video feed

iPhone Keynote: See the Magic

The only thing I don't like about the iPhone is that I have to wait til June to get one!
I thought the keynote was really great-- Steve Jobs is a great speaker and really shows how important the user experience is to him in developing these amazing products.

See the keynote here

Monoface: Best Corporate Holiday Card of the Year!

Shuffle the elements that belong to the faces of the people who work there. All the eyes, noses, mouths, etc, are made to go together to recombine into something really funny almost every time.

Also, if you click on the actual image instead of "shuffle face" you can recreate an actual person by choosing all the elements that belong only to them.

genius!

check out the site