Stories in Digital Media

April 18th, 2009 @ Caligari Theater in Wiesbaden

We will explore new approaches that are being developed to confront the flood of information and transform it into useful knowledge

Speakers will be Aaron Koblin (made that Radiohead music video), Sebastian Oschatz from MESO and others.

Tickets for students are 40€. Drop me a line if you want to join so that we can order tickets together (it’s a cinema anyway).

Oblong Inds. presents a spatial interaction to good to be true. Now, if I could afford a MS Surface table and get this here… I would degrade it to a… well, a table.

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

An interesting info-animation, maybe some readers can relate.

Did you ever ask yourself how to play around with your webcam ?

Two years ago I started a small project to track a certain color range within the frames grabbed from my webcam using real-time image processing. So I came across the Open Computer Vision Library for C/C++, in short OpenCV, developed by Intel and published under a BSD License. As an example : The built-in facetracking algorithms are definitly the favorite toys of our Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble.

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There are a bunch of tools for creating Typefaces, but fontstruct is one of the easy to use ones. After registering you may easily create fonts out of a palette of predefined shapes, allowing a huge variety of results.

A few years ago, when I dreamed of being a famous designer, one of the first great and inspiring websites I stumpled upon was neave’s, an interaction designer from the UK.

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When: Tue 8 July, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Where: ZIMT (Flughafenallee 10), room 122

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Lübeck is quite close (north of Hamburg).

This is the Homepage, unfortunately in German:

http://vielmehr.org/index.php

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