the human slinky
hehe, remember these?
Packet garden - your network diary!
By michelle, 4 years, 3 months ago - No Comments
Carrying on from my blog yesterday about Select Parks, one of the games on their website really stood out - Packet Garden.
"Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.
To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from internet address itself. The size of each hill or valley is based on how much data is sent or received. Plants are also grown for each protocol detected by the software; if you visit a website, an 'HTTP plant' is grown. If you share some files via eMule, a 'Peer to Peer plant' is grown, and so on.
None of this information is made public or shared in any way, instead it's used to grow a personal landscape, a kind of 'walk-in graph' uniquely shaped by the way you use the internet. With each day of network activity a new world can be generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to browse, compare and visit as time goes by. You can think of packet gardens as pages from a network diary."
Wow, quite an amazing idea, I wonder what my personal landscape looks like...
I feel open source
By michelle, 4 years, 3 months ago - No Comments
I feel open source after attending the first ever nz open source awards last night. Stray Cinema was a finalist in the creative category, but the competition was stiff, and the prize went to Select Parks, an open source gaming project which looks pretty cool, check it out.
i feel open source.
now you may have come across We Feel Fine before "an exploration of human emotion, in six movements"? Their website describes it better than i could:
"Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. sing a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel?" etc etc
i've just done a search on their website. I asked how women my age in wellington (the city in which i live) were feeling today? no results! how about yesterday, nothing! so by writing this blog i hope to represent the women of wellington today. i wonder if their blog search engine will pick this up...you see i am feeling open source today.
imagine the future!
By michelle, 4 years, 4 months ago - No Comments
im fascinated with the future, the idea of it more so than the reality which may be rather uneventful. hence i wish i could go to re-imagining the city tour next week in auckland nz...but i cant because i live in wellington.
this is a joint production from onedotzero and the British Council, focusing on our shared urban future through the eyes of designers, architects, film makers and creatives.
The tour will travel to 8 countries across asia and australasia, so go to the website and see if you live in on of the lucky cities they pass through.
Interviews...
By michelle, 4 years, 4 months ago - No Comments
While I was in London I did a few Stray Cinema interviews, I thought you might like to have a read. One was for the New Zealand Rockquest website THE SET, and the other for creative community website The Big idea.
By michelle, 4 years, 3 months ago - No Comments