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Got a tweet from Carl Malamud today that led me to this article about Martin Wattenberg. It’s always great to read about a whole yarnball of my interests at one time. Culture, information, visualization, and the meaning we can bring to data by creating context. See an ongoing project at the TATE in the UK. ( MW2MW is a collaboration between Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg. Started in 1997, both artists work independently but come together on long term projects such as Apartment, Wonderwalker, Thinking Machine and Noplace.) http://www.mw2mw.com/
These experiments and journeys open up new ways to look at what we see each day in a new light.
The aesthetic is a bit clumsy for my liking still the work at the conceptual level is very intriguing and the visualizations shed light on the snapshots he takes.
Take some time to enjoy these works. Love to know your thoughts.
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a find at the itunes store
I crawl around the iphone store now and again to add more fodder to my need for an iPhone. Here is a really cool app that solves one of the problems that drives me crazy from time to time. I use my laptop for almost everything — that means no number keys. I hate the extended keyboards because they just take up too much space on my desk.
{ Do you remember when you could buy a numberpad to attach to your keyboard when you needed it? I had one of those clunky beige things that worked by plugging it into my keyboard… I used it for keying in coordinates for objects in my vector files or layout applications. Most of all I used it when creating schedules and I had to put in date fields. }
Well, here’s a sweet little iPhone app that lets you turn your iPhone into a number keypad and it’s wireless. All for $1.99.
One caveat it’s Mac only.
Ah, the beauty of the iPhone platform.
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