This blog is Kate Hollenbach's way of periodically updating the internet with what she's working on and random things she's thinking about design, programming, and technology.
Now Amber and Kelly Dobson are running a four-week g-speak workshop as part of the Digital+Media course Outer Space Inner Space, as Kwin writes at oblong.com.
Running from 2005 – 2008, Openstudio was an experiment in creativity, collaboration & virtual economics created by the Physical Language Workshop led by John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab. Participants created and sold artwork in an online marketplace using a virtual currency.
More than a thousand participants created and traded art in Openstudio. This group will function as a space to archive and share the content that former Openstudio users backed up before the site went down.
It’s fun to see that people have saved so many of their illustrations, and the hundreds of profile pages that Kyle has uploaded. I have a small collection of images, and hopefully you do, too! Thanks to Luis for getting this effort started!
Oblong Industries unveiled TAMPER at Sundance Film Fesitval this year as part of the New Frontier exhibition in the heart of snowy Park City. Visitors to the site used their hands and gestured to create whimsical digital video collages (as in the video above). Some of those collages — along with footage of their creation — are up on our YouTube Channel.
Happy holidays!! I made an interactive greeting card for the new year … it animates some snowflakes made out of letters when you wiggle around the mouse. The source is written in Processing.
It feels good to write some code after a semester of mostly print-based work. I hope I can make some more time for work like this in 2009.
