Coney Island
A small series I shot at Coney Island.
Peter VRMRCK
“Cause nothing’s making sense today”
April 20, 1950: The Woolworth Building reflected in a puddle in City Hall Park. The original caption deemed it “an eerie reflection of the skyline.” Photo: Arthur Brower/The New York Times
MOTIV is an open source project that uses Kinect to give digital musicians direct control of emotional expression by interpreting their physical gestures in real-time.http://musicwithmotiv.com/
Talk to Me
If you’re in NYC soon, make sure you don’t miss Paola Antonelli’s (and her overly talented female team) new exposition Talk to Me. Talk to Me is an exhibition on the communication between people and objects, and how designers write the initial script that enables the two parties to communicate effectively and elegantly. Some interesting people like Rob Faludi, BERG and Jer Thorp have mentioned they’re also collaborating. After the fantastic and avantgarde Design and the Elastic Mind in 2008 this should be the must-see exhibition this year.
The exhibition hinges on an important development in the culture of design (and in culture at large), a shift from the centrality of function to that of meaning. From this perspective, all objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use or appearance. Whether openly and actively, or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us, and designers help us develop and improvise the dialogue.
Talk to Me will focus on objects that involve a direct interaction, such as interfaces, information systems, visualization design, communication devices, and projects that establish an emotional, sensual, or intellectual connection with their users.
