andytlr:

Winscape

This is pretty crazy. Monitors in window frames move the picture based on your position using a Wiimote. So whatever is outside the ‘window’ looks real. Useless, but pretty rad.

(via tmblg)

i know it’s a bias… but i think you could make some really interesting screendance works using this sort of technology. adjusting the vertical and horizontal location of the video/picture to emulate angles of vision is great - but by tracking the user (albeit wearing a wii remote) and being able to present different videos based on location there’s a whole range of possibilities.

must look for an open source equivalent (in all my spare time of course)

ABC iView

we often record shows from the ABC via a digital tuner onto hard drive for watching later. particularly the docos. sometimes though, the recording doesn’t happen because of a number of reasons…

iView has a ‘catch up’ section, which allows you to watch recent shows that have been screened via a streaming Flash based interface. i had thought of doing a screen capture of these, particularly as it’s unmetered content from my ISP, but that was such a pain to do.

fortunately some people have worked out how the ABC site authenticates the client IP and lists shows that are available to stream over iView. they’ve then gone and created scripts to make it easy for anyone to download these streams as .FLV files.

i love the internet.

the script (on a forum, lots of info about it all)
another version (for Mac OSX)

steve lambert’s site is well worth digging through. he’s got more than a few gems in there.

an interesting read from an interesting author

want to keep open access to the internet in australia?

a great looking conference for:
• Artists, designers and musicians who want to create interactive art, information visualization, or personal software tools;

• Teens, undergraduates, and graduate students who wish to combine art, design, interaction, and computer science;

• Middle-school and high-school teachers who want a more expressive way of teaching programming and computer arts;

• College educators and professional artists who want to learn the most cutting-edge tools for interaction design;

• Computer-science education researchers interested in visually-oriented learning tools;

• Anyone who has been wanting to learn how to program their own software, but hasn’t known where to start!

anything that encourages people to get involved in programming and the arts is a great initiative in my book.

cute site. another social web sharing site - simple and easy to use. and it lets you import your faves from vimeo and last.fm

can integrate tumblr too… but why?

this is gold.

john mckerrell has made a little url frontend for google maps (and other online mapping services). simple to use as well.

if you want directions, use http://mapof.it/[start location]/[end location]

or to find somewhere, it’s http://mapof.it/[location]

ie. http://mapof.it/melbourne/sydney