Nicholas Felton | Feltron.com Touch: Method To produce a collective portrait of desire, we polled hundreds of people’s opinions about parts of the body. To do so, we teamed up with Dolores Labs to crowdsource the data gathering step through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk site—a marketplace where paid workers perform simple tasks. This means that we set up an open call to anyone on the Mechanical Turk site who was interested in answering questions about desire and the human body. We developed the rating interface below, which prompted users to rank how exciting several points of the body were to the touch. Taking into account the respondent's gender and sexual preferences, we told people to imagine they were caressing, or being caressed by a lover. Then, based on images like the ones below, we asked two questions: How good would it feel to touch this area? Overall, we asked questions for 707 different points on male and female bodies. Want to take the survey?
Communication Nation Nexus Graphs Your Facebook Friends and More Looking to visualize your Facebook friend graph? You can with a Facebook app called Nexus. This app is a friend grapher that displays a visual analysis of your Facebook connections. But it's not just a pretty picture: in addition to viewing how your friends are connected, you can use Nexus to discover what interests your friends share and which of your friends are the most similar to you. How To Use Nexus To get started with Nexus, add the app to your Facebook profile. A Nexus Graph For example, clicking on Richard, I discovered he shared commonalities with Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, and Robert Scoble. Discovering common interests You can then click on any one of those shared commonalities and discover other members in your friend graph who also share this interest. Another thing that Nexus can do is help you discover friends who are most similar to you. Not to worry, though - the information gathered is restricted to the permissions you have on Facebook. Why It's Useful
moritz.stefaner.eu - / Blog + News A Family Workshop in Critical 3D Printing: Concepts, Techniques, and Workflows Developed by Golan Levin and Gustavo Valera Originally commissioned by Alhondiga de Bilbao, July 2013 as an activity accompanying the exhibition Artists as Catalysts. Presented in another iteration at FutureEverything, Manchester, March 2014 OverviewThe rapidly decreasing cost and widespread adoption of 3D printers has been aided and accompanied by new software applications that make 3D modeling simpler for everyday people. This workshop is an introduction to 3D modeling and 3D printing for families and educators. Participants will learn the use of several free 3D modeling applications (including the Autodesk 123D suite, TinkerCAD, Sculptris, and Skanect) — as well as the use of the Makerbot Replicator, an inexpensive 3D printer widely used in schools and hackerspaces. This workshop is designed for 8-12 participants. This workshop is suitable for families. Basic workshop equipment assumptions. Workshop Software
The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method Bestiario: organizaciones e interfaces digitales (II) Por JUAN FREIRE (SOITU.ES) Actualizado 15-12-2008 16:24 CET La segunda parte de la ponencia de Santiago Ortiz de Bestiario, en el curso Sociedad Red: Cambios sociales, organizaciones y ciudadanos, fue una exploración guiada de sus proyectos donde se materializa su visión de las organizaciones en un mundo digital, dentro del paradigma de la complejidad y la emergencia. Cada proyecto de Bestiario representa una interfaz digital destinada a explorar y explotar grandes volúmenes de datos generados en redes en que participan agentes externos a las propias empresas. Proyectos experimentales En primer lugar, se centró en aquellos más experimentales que no responden tanto a la demanda de un cliente como a la necesidad de explorar conceptos y tecnologías. Collision. Proyectos "de clientes"
Gregor Aisch – driven by data the color of data — Visual Hint The Art Of Reproduction by fernanda and martin The web can seem like the perfect museum, holding all the world’s art. Type “Danae Klimt” into your favorite search engine, and you conjure up a high-resolution image of Gustav Klimt’s Danaë: tan limbs, a shower of gold, red hair. Or did you find pink limbs? Or were they gray or even green? Curious just how far reproductions stray from each other, we began an investigation. The discontinuities of color, texture and frame tell the story of the inaccuracies in reproduction, forming a tapestry of beautiful half-truths. For some works, we also created compositions comparing the same detail across many copies. Go to our gallery to see all the compositions. That was fast! It seems like just yesterday (or two blog posts ago) that we announced the beginning of Flowing Media. But today we are bidding the company adieu. It’s been a wonderful, though short, ride at Flowing Media. Stay tuned. A timeline takes its first steps A New Chapter A celebration of color
Four Infographic Morsels 3 Earth In Space Thanks to Steve Haddock for that one. Apparently this map is secreted on Google Earth somewhere. Can anybody find a link for it? And on a similar theme – the undiscovered country, Antarctica, grokkable for size. (Apols. Mark Coleran – Visual Design for Film An INCOMING EMAIL alert in 200 point text suddenly flies across your monitor. Why Are Europeans White Skinned? (Thanks to Peter Ayres) Knol, “Google’s Wikipedia”, rules BTW. Mind Mapping A Mind MapLunchbreath’s amusing dig at Mind Mapping (which I personally find rubbish) There’s a bunch more hand-drawn infographical goodness on LunchBreath’s Flickr Stream. Hmmm, strangely map themed this time. In the meantime, if you come across any visual delights, please send them through.
3 Ways To Read The News A Little Differently | MakeUseOf.com As the world continues its rapid movement to the Web, things are changing in the field of journalism. Where once newspapers dominated, the world of blogs and online publications are quickly springing up to take its place. One of the cool things about the Web is that there’s nothing holding developers to a particular layout, interface or format. Anything, with a bit of clever design-work, can be achieved. In the news world, there are a few options for unique, different, and fun methods of reading the news. Whether it’s a game, a puzzle, or an image search, here are three new paradigms for news-reading: Spectra Visual Newsletter Spectra is presenting a whole new way of reading the news. You can even interact with Spectra using your webcam or microphone for an even more immersive experience. Newsmap The Newsmap is essentially a mashup of newspapers with social media. You can sort the results by category (Business, Entertainment, Nation, etc.), or by country around the world. NewsBreaker