6. johnny cash project
same guys!
Chris Milk collaborated
with Aaron Koblin and
Mr Doob to allow Johnny
Cash fans to draw each frame
for Johnny Cash's final video.
The Johnny Cash Project
7. singing fingers
An ipad app that lets you record sounds to actions and then play them back by tracing the action
8. hatsune miku live
A live concert by an avatar featuring songs written by users using synthesizer software
10. we're all fans.
UGC Social content mosaics of Grammy nominated artists.
grammys-were-all-fans
See also:
MTV's Music Awards Twitter Tracker
11. in bflat
inbflat.net opens video up
as a creative space.
It turns user-generated content into
a user-generated
composition by embedding
videos of people making music
(in the key of Bb) on the same
webpage and allowing you to
play them. At the same time.
It's a brilliantly simple idea.
12. sour
Sour had their fans tightly choreograph an incredible routine using only their webcams. (see also pepsi)
13. kutiman
Kutiman crowd-sources musical samples from
YouTube and then splices together the videos to
create new tracks. See the whole album at thru-you.
com
14. one frame of fame
One frame of fame uses fans to recreate and replace each single shot of their music video.
15. a youtube symphony
Allows musicians
worldwide to audition for
an international orchestra
using the youtube
platform.
youtube.com/symphony
16. musical ar app
(also youtube symphony)
Tellart created this AR app which allows you to play music using your phone.
Take a pic of the marker, turn the phone to face your webcam, and then use it as a musical
instrument. youtube.com/symphony?x=experiment
18. life in a day
What happens when you ask everyone in the
world to take a video of their life on the same day?
A project with Kevin McDonald, Ridley Scott and
many more.
youtube.com/lifeinaday
27. ugc star wars
The classic as you've never seen it before - diced into 15 second long cuts, lovingly recreated, submitted,
selected and edited together by the crowd in a thousand unimaginable variations : starwarsuncut.com
32. david mccandless
A brilliant visual data-journalist : http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Global media scare stories:
33. bbc: dimensions
Take something simple like relative
scale and make it super simple
[like Berg did for the BBC].
howbigreally.com
34. wefeelfine.org
A pioneering & ongoing example of data-scraping and visualization.
Or, in the words of Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar:
"An exploration of human emotion, in six movements"
wefeelfine.org
36. real-time transit
mash-ups
Trains in Switzerland
Buses in NYC
Tubes in London
[None of these work as well as
they could. Except the Swiss -
which is based on (reliable)
predictions anyway]
37. polymaps
Polymaps is a free
JavaScript library for
making dynamic,
interactive maps in
modern web
browsers.
polymaps.org
stamen.com
41. dreams in high fidelity
An artwork created over a decade by thousands of computers around the world running Electric Sheep.
Scott Draves classic work is constantly renewed by developments in immersive projection.
42. commencer une autre
mort
Digitally altered recordings of staged
performances are used to create a
striking "revised" scene from Bizet's
Carmen.
43. remakes
remaking is in, and then mashing up remakes of remakes.
man with a movie camera | remake (hitchcock)
44. greyworld
greyworld are a group of artists that create public art, usually in urban spaces, usually with technology.
paint tests
musica
46. john gerrard
John Gerrard is an Irish artist who creates perfectly recreated digital
environments that run in their own space-time - literal alternative realities.
johngerrard.net
47. daniel crooks
Daniel Crooks is an Australian artist who digitally manipulates footage to create distortions in time
danielcrooks.com
48. rafael lozano hemmer
Vectorial elevation at the Vancouver Olympics. Users could log in around the globe, using maps to
create their own personal lighting pattern and then upload and watch as their set went live.
bitforms.com || lozano-hemmer.com
49. time, colour, data
Flickr Flow is an creative experiment whose materials are color and time. flickrflow
Time Flow is an analytical tool for visualising temporal data. timeflow
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are behind both. hint.fm
59. mobile interactive
projection
"Participants were able to use their
mobile devices as magic "brushes" to
interact with the installation. They
could choose between three colors,
green, blue and red. Green for growing
the plant, blue for feeding the
blossoms and red to burn it down."
www.projektil.ch
http://vimeo.com/13307183
64. ipad 3D light magic
Berg & Dentsu make future magic with an ipad and a long exposure
65. user-text projection
a collection of interactive public projections and performance created in 2006 by Paul Notzold
txtualhealing.com
mobileactive.org/
67. outrace
Send a 70char message to a light installation in Trafalgar Square. Receive a light-based music video
with robot arms writing your message in long exposure motions. http://www.outrace.org
75. multi-player reality game
using oyster cards
chromaroma.com
vimeo.com/10017464
"Chromaroma is an online
multiplayer game played
out as you travel the city
with your Oyster card. By
using Oyster data we are
able to show you your Tube
travel, and every journey
means you amass points,
taking a few steps further
along the way to owning
London."
78. trans-siberian online
Travel the length of the trans-
siberian railway courtesy of google
maps and a webcam with a audio
version of dostoyevsky for
company: russianrailway
79. 10k.an event apart
The challenge? Build a web app in less than 10 kilobytes that inspires the internet.
10K challenge
81. iButterfly. catch
augmented insects. win.
"iButterfly" is an iPhone application
using AR, motion sensor, and GPS
functions to let users see and 'catch'
butterflys to win rewards.
mobileart.jp
91. crowdsourcing
heroism. Ushahidi.com is a powerful example of
the potential of crowdsourced data.
NY Times article.
Ushahidi.com
92. country against country
An interactive infographic of the world's top 100 countries on newsweek.com
newsweek.com
93. distorting maps
to tell the truth
Cartographer Benjamin Hennings collects maps distorted by datasets to look at information in a relative
form. viewsoftheworld.net
94. open-access data
journalism
The Guardian newspaper has an
open strategy to data journalism,
scraping public data, using open
platforms like manyeyes and
trimectric , sharing raw data via
google docs, encouraging developers
to mash-up and re-use data sets as
well as coordinating mass
investigations such as the mps
expenses making insights available
in impossibly short-times.
more
96. nike head2head
A stat-to-stat visualiser allowing athletes to compare statistics with local competition, or the best in the
world, understand your weaknesses and get advanced tutorials to improve your personal best.
head2head (R/GA)
97. IBM
analyses
US Open
Data was collected from every
aspect of the game in real-time and
presented back to the viewer as an
visual analysis of 'momentum'
creating a separate perspective to
'watch' the game from.
US Open Point Stream
98. twitter-replays
Watch how the game panned out in a high-speed replay of trending twitter tags over the course of a game
World Cup 2010 Twitter replay
99. olympic twitter streams
Representing the conversation around the Winter Olympics, NBC used twitter to
visualise the most discussed stories. Stamen (again)
101. evolving typeface
RCA student Jack Gilbey's
dynamic typography where the font
adapts to contextual changes
within the content.
rca
102. stephen fry's book app
Stephen Fry and Penguin digital
make his latest book into an ipad
app that is browsable in completely
new ways.
103. don quixote read by you
(...2149 of you)
Spanish-speaking bibliophiles
are creating the first
collaborative audiobook
el Quijote by Miguel de
Cervantes is being cut up
into 2149 10-line sections.
Readers request a section
(randomly assigned) and have
6 hours to record & upload.
www.youtube.com/elquijote.
104. spotify choose-your-
own-ending
Hurts, promote their new album
with a short story called 'Don't
Let Go' on Spotify read by
Anna Friel.
The reader searches for a given
code on the site for each new
segment - everything ends with
a song.
Start the story
106. mongoliad
Neal Stephenson is
leading/writing a serialised
13c historical epic with
community-enhancment,
wiki-contribution, a
subscriber model and
multiple writers and then
releasing it all on iOS (i.e.
as an app).
mongoliad.com
108. making oral history
historypin.co.uk is an initiative that lets people upload videos,
digitalplace photos on maps and write their own historical accounts
within a Google map
109. september 11 memorial
A site that allows people to overlay video testimonial and footage from 9/11
positioned from their own geographical perspective using streetview
makehistory
110. maps API = time machine
themannahattaproject.org takes you to Manhattan/Mannahatta in 1609
112. all about social
Old Spice (W&K) used a character from a popular advert to break the fourth wall and have the
character interact in real-time shooting ads and responding directly to hundreds of messages
over several days, including a marriage proposal.
113. smile vending
Unilever worked with Sapient Nitro to create an ice cream vending machine that detected your
smile and rewarded you with a free ice-cream (and let's you upload your pic to FB)
(see also kraft macaroni cheese - less cool)
114. continual motion
Three similar ideas over the course of two world cups. 2006 Nike's joga bonita campaign asked users to
send videos keeping the ball in the air. For 2010 Coke had users celebrating the longest goal celebration.
Both are trumped by the Eternal Moonwalk: a Michael Jackson Tribute
115. tippex
Tippex integrated their product into a 'viral' video in an interactive way that captured the imagination.
The product is used to 'correct' the title and allow the user to suggest what should happen next.
Watch
116. chalkbot
Livestrong & Nike promotion with the Tour de France: an automated trailer printing 'chalked' messages from
anything texted or tweeted @chalkbot in the tradition of the le tour. livestrong.org/chalkbot
117. making it personal
Personalised online video was notably used by the Obama campaign in 2008.
Recent examples: Action Aid fundraiser, Pentagrams's Type campaign, Latitude demo, and for public
service campaigns encouraging you to get a TV license and warning about the dangers of online profiles
118. ask a friend
An IKEA's manager used tagging on Facebook to turn his photos into an online showroom
119. Creative Lab
anything by
UNIQLO utweet
lucky switch
lucky counter
Uniqlo / dentsu let users fashion map
become part of the
campaign by personalising
their advertising around
their own social
media stream.
