RADAR a mobile and web series that I co-created and produce enters its' fourth season. New episodes ever Wed for the next 12 weeks www.babelgum.com/radar
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Worth a bookmark: Opening titles have been elevated to their own art form. The Art of the Title Sequence is a wonderful collection of opening and closing credits. You can browse the stills or watch the actual sequences in SD or HD versions. Just seeing a series of still images from a title sequence gives you a new appreciation for it.
Over the course of 9 days Marc Horowitz and Peter Baldes travel across America via google maps and pick up 150 virtual hitchhikers along the way. Meet Google Maps Road Trip. In this episode of RADAR Marc and Peter share their journey and take some lucky folks on a virtual ride through NYC.
Each week Sophie Blackall scans the missed connections listed on Craigslist and brings them to life in an illustrated interpretation of moment lost in time.
RADAR recently did an episode which captures Blackall’s creative process.
“We Feel Fine” an expansive project that has mined the web since 2005 for the phrase “I Feel” has expanded to include a beautiful book that captures the project.
I’ve been following the “We Feel Fine” project and a number of collaborations between Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar that harness data in interesting and artistic ways.
Here’s how Sep Kamvar describes the project on his site.
“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.”
This is awesome!
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes. For more info visit http://www.eyewriter.org
WOW–count your blessings!
24 Hours of Flight Data
I’m a sucker for the mix tape. Here are two cool projects that make use of
those mix tapes that folks have laying around.
NEW BOOK 
http://cassettefrommyex.com
We covered Cassette from My Ex in season one of RADAR here’s the episode.
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Scott Cambell carves art out of 100 dollar stacks of 1 dollar bills.
Hat tip: Camp Fire Steve
by Jonathan Darby – placed near Great Eastern Street Hoxton
Today we wrapped the first season of RADAR! Our final shoot was with Color Me Katie. Katie Sokoler is a street artist who believes that random acts of kindness can be infectious. She’s seen it first hand. After launching her blog last October she’s gained a global following, many of whom have been so inspired by her work that they’ve created their own.
Our final shoot day was spent placing shadows and thought bubbles throughout Brooklyn.
Favs of the day a Mexican Popeye in front of a laundromat and a poodle named “movie star” thinking about cats.
The day also marked a milestone for WBP – what started as an experiment almost 2 and half years ago has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last six months. RADAR marks a step in a new direction. One of which provides direct creative opportunities to the community that WBP servers. Finishing out the season with Katie was a great way to top things off.
Mike Hedge 10:42 am on November 30, 2009 Permalink
awesome.