Forfatter: Morten Skogly

Creator of Things

Ideas for interactive movies workshop, february 23-25 2001

Found some old notes when cleaning out my network share at work, pretty neat stuff for 2001, and I still want to work more on these. Please don’t steal them, because then I would have to kill ya, and that would be really impractical :) Here it is, unread, unproofed, and unedited. 001. Working title:… Fortsett å lese Ideas for interactive movies workshop, february 23-25 2001

The Blair watch project

Image via Wikipedia Introducing the Blair watch project from Guardian Unlimited: Election 2005 «Devoted Guardian readers will have read Oliver Burkeman’s account of trying to keep track of Tony Blair in Dorset South yesterday, in which he describes how misdirection sent reporters scampering across southern England, in a ‘meandering day-trip’ in search of the prime… Fortsett å lese The Blair watch project

Can you have too much ease-of-use?

Photo: Snooze, from Flickr (CC) Stipping things down to the bare minimum is Apples mantra. But isn’t easy equal to boring? Excerpt from an interesting article on the subject: Think about it… skiing, dancing, chess, photography, flying, dressage, gardening, dog training, environmental activism, religion… when people are into any of those things passionately (as opposed… Fortsett å lese Can you have too much ease-of-use?

SxSW puts 2.6 GB of music online for 2005 conference

SXSW did something truly groundbreaking for their 2005 conference, when picked on song from each of the hundreds of bands performing at the festival online, and distributed it them with BitTorrent. If you have ever, like me, worked with clearing content from bands for online publishing, you can appreciate the amount of work this must… Fortsett å lese SxSW puts 2.6 GB of music online for 2005 conference

Regler for Ekstra Joker Nord

Aka: Reglan førr Jokernord Eksempler på brukerinnsendte regler til Jokernord, gjort legendarisk av Bård og Harald på NRK, i programmet Team Antonsen. §5 Ikke lov til og vrenge bøtta når det er en homojoker i nærheten §7 Du må enten bøtte eller vrenge toeren hvis den havner under en selvmordsjoker. §9 Hvis homo jokern er… Fortsett å lese Regler for Ekstra Joker Nord

Smileplastics

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Smileplastics has created a solution that gives hard plastics a new life as building materials. On their website you can see interesting uses for this mixed plastics material. I’ve been facinated and frustrated with plastic for years. It is a beautiful material with endless uses, strong, and colorful, but we usually… Fortsett å lese Smileplastics

Seven mile boots

The project SEVEN MILE BOOTS is a pair of interactive shoes with audio. One can wear the boots, walk around as a flaneur simultaneousy in the physical world and in the literal world of the internet. By walking in the physical world one may suddenly encounter a group of people chatting in real time in… Fortsett å lese Seven mile boots

Den tilfredse fiskeren

(Photo by Sir Mervs, via Flickr) En fisker hadde avsluttet arbeidet for dagen og satt ved båten sin på stranden og så på solnedgangen. En rik forretningsmann gikk forbi, og ble irritert over å se fiskeren som latet seg. – Hvorfor er du ikke ute og fisker? spurte forretningsmannen. – Fordi jeg har fått nok… Fortsett å lese Den tilfredse fiskeren