The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Research and development for the Fairytale Fashion collection are shared online at FairytaleFashion.org as an educational tool that teaches about science, math, and technology through fashion. Fairytale Fashion was created with the support of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center nonprofit.

Gideon Obarzanek’s Digital Moves from PopTech on Vimeo.

Experimental Australian Dance Company – Chunky Move – check out their website

This is when code really is poetry. I recently visited the Decode Exhibition at the V&A – December 8 – April 11. This is a must visit exhibition.

I am becoming increasingly interested in the image-making and technology. Not just the static photograph but how we manipulate our surroundings to engage in experience created by technology. What is even more exciting is when this moves into the realm of art and ultimately mainstream experiences.

Although not entirely dead, we are moving away more and more from the producer/consumer paradigm and increasingly into producer/consumer/producer roles. This throws into disarray a lot about how we percieve experiences, we are no longer passive in them and we can either create or manipulate with the use of free and open source technologies.

Why was this exhibition so much fun? Watching it through the eyes of a child. Everything for my son is new – he just plays, no barriers, no questions, no expectations, just simply – play. So, even though I work with these kind of technologies, I know conceptually how they are made, and they may have been technologies around for a while, the simplicity of play makes it so much fun.

The teenies for me are going to be defined by interactions. The blending of gaming, interaction, experience and design. This kind of work which is being produced with so much more frequency than before and even what was produced over the last 5 years was certainly not mainstream or in an exhibition at the V&A. This makes for an exciting couple of years ahead I think.

I so wish I had the luxury of time to learn how to code and create but also play in this space.

A brief rundown of my highlights from the show without spoiling it:

Video Grid 2009 by Ross Phillips – even more impressive when I realised he was the technical director at ShowStudio. Much respect!

Griffin Video Wall 2009

Oasis 2008–9 by Everywhere

It almost beats ShowStudio exhibition at Somerset House which I talked about here I’d recommend both highly. Actually they are same-same but different.

Go see!!!

Lite-Write makes my web camera into a slow exposure camera – meaning I can make pictures that look like I am playing with light.

Just download the software here, get a torch – I find smaller works better and play away.

Lite-write is a piece of nifty software, created using open processing by Tangible Interactions.

This mashing up of photography, experience and technology is something I am becoming increasingly fascinated with.

It is times like this I wish I was a true geek and could write code.

Flickr Gallery here.

The Lite-Write 912 from Company Policy on Vimeo.

Recent piece published for the corporate communications sector. As part of my job at salterbaxter, I am reminded and challenged everyday at how some organisations – ie. corporates are still struggling with how to engage with social media. So as much as I read, listen and want to believe that the revolution is coming, for particularly large organisations, it is like moving a tanker. It is slow and takes a long time and lot of convincing.

This piece was designed to give real examples of what is happening in social media relevant to the corporate sector.

The Sex Lives of the Great Renaissance Masters by Ben Hammersley – Ignite London 18 November 2009 from hurryonhome on Vimeo.

Diarrhea & Dodgy Doners: What’s Special About Bacteria by Matthew Baker – Ignite London 18 November 2009 from hurryonhome on Vimeo.

Rediscovery: Brazil and the 21st Century by Jimmy Greer – Ignite London 18 November 2009 from hurryonhome on Vimeo.

Playful 09 doodling, originally uploaded by melmcveigh.

Went to This is Playful on Friday. Brilliant, full of loads of awesomeness. Lots of doodling while I was listening and watching. I learnt a lot about the playfulness of cricket from Russell Davies, saw the preview to Minesweeper the movie, saw the beautiful work of Chris O’Shea.

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BEFORE

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/

In my spare time, (because I have so much of that) – I worked on delivering this new website.

It was built using wordpress. So much more respect for it as a CMS. Very extensible and worked with a good developer I can say.

There are still a few tweaks to make and a whole of information to migrate across from the archive, but quite pleased with the result.

Came across these guys the other day.

Rocketboom – Know your meme.

My takeaways, scribbles and notes…

Really nice.

Viral & Memetic

Absorbed by the viewer.

Spread by mainstream media.

Saturated within days.

Short lived.

Mashups, remixes, adaptation and copies were part of its charm.

Most mashups within 72 hours.

Meme kiss of death.

Speed, too fast… old meme in its infancy.

Once mainstream, the internet had moved on.

Mashup and amplify.