For the launch of the Nike Free Run+ 2 City Pack series Nike invited YesYesNo to develop software to enable runners to ‘dynamically paint’ using their GPS run data, and as you can see from the example above, got some pretty interesting results. Here’s how YesYesNo explain it on their website –
“During the two day workshop at Nike headquarters, we invited the participants to record their runs and then using our custom software we imported the metrics from their run, to create visuals based on the speed, consistency and unique style of each person’s run.
Using the software the participants were able to play with the mapping and adjust the composition of their run which was then outputted as a high resolution print for them to take home.”
Clever stuff..
You can see more of their projects on their website yesyesno.com , well worth a look if this is your sort of thing.
A great little tool for generating your very own guilloche patterns. What would usually be a painstaking afternoon in Illustrator has been made simple (and quite fun to play with) by this, and with the ability to customise every variable you have total control. The only thing I’d say it was missing is the option to output your creation as vectors..
Have a play here
As part of their ongoing projects with ‘Street View’, the more recent addition to Google Maps, Google have now teamed up with leading galleries across the world to bring art into peoples homes. With Art Projects you can explore galleries and museums using their Street View technology, view artworks in high resolution and even create your own collection from the pieces available to share with friends and family. They describe it on the website as –
A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.
With a list including The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), The National Gallery (London), Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and Tate Britain (London), to name but a few, some of the best known collections are now accessible right from your sofa!
You can view the full Art Project here
Twittertry was set up both as a bit of fun and as part of my ongoing experiments with feeds. The idea was to pull random Twitter feeds and put them next to each other in a familiar format and see if an occasional relationship formed between the lines of text. As Twitter runs an instant commentary on day to day occurances from a world wide perspective it’s sometimes nice to see what someone might want to share from one side of the world, placed immediately next to what someone else might be thinking on the other.
Take a look here www.twittertry.co.uk
(If you refresh your browser it searches for a new feed for each line out of a set file of 100 or so)
I’ve just uploaded a little experiment I’ve been working on this morning, it’s part of an ongoing personal project playing with the Google Search API (among other feeds) and ways of translating the results. You can have a play here, and let me know what you think!
