web aesthetic

play

indie publishing power

impermanent, ephemeral

personal

rarely involves formal institutions (galleries, agents, museums, etc)

rarely involves commissioned or purchased works

artists pays for viewers, not vice versa

paradox: popular works become financially unsustainable

jared tarbell

levitated.net

complexification.net

organic machine

invader fractal

  • symmetrical 3x5 pattern
  • each invader placed in random percentage of space until all space is filled
  • small amount of data translates to huge graphical representation

    • sea thing "Half the fun of programming these things is naming them."

  • click to divide

    • bubble chamber

    binary ring

    node garden

  • nodes grow along spiral paths
  • nodes are bigger near each path origin
  • connections between nodes are drawn as lines
  • the larger a node, the further away it can make connections

    • how the?

    zach and golan's messa

  • voice bubbles

    • we fail

    martin hughes, jordan stone

  • the art of transitions (audio, visual, emotional, conceptual)
  • poke, prod, investigation...unravel threads, wind, rewind
  • death of the button generation
  • "check out" vs "tune in": someone arrived, do something, communicate

    • motion is experience

  • everything moves, even mountains
  • everything is a liquid, even solids

    • wefail.com

    so-fake (jordan)

  • this is a book
  • spotter

    • the facing new york

    bob schneider music

  • just give 'em the damn cd

    • sexy ui

    vodaphone

    james patterson

    presstube.com

    insert silence

    dvd trailer

    rondarlis

    world enough and time

    mechanical pong

    naoki mitsuse

    sex slave rebel

    joe's story

    much more at ultralights

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    when is the future?

    audiopad

    fastfroots

    fast froots mario kart clone (raycasting in flash)

    titoonic's spider

    spider

    ferry hallim

    orisinal

    strong bad email

    trogdor

    james tindall

    modify me

    square root of -1

    hoss gifford

    spank the monkey

    mixing heads

    visualize

    music plasma

    robert hodgin

    flight404 early work

  • exploring an idea, an effect

    • flight404 an arrival, of sorts (click passenger manifest)

  • rj hollenbach
  • jerry caldwell
  • joseph edward barnes

    • flight404 recent work (processing)

    marcos weskamp

    it (project no longer online)

    social circles

    news visualizer

  • item size indicates ammount of related articles inside each news cluster in googlenews
  • the bigger, the more coverage a story is getting

    • you need this

    alex uhlmann's animation package

  • massively useful for programmatic motion graphics

    • se|py

  • actionscript 2.0 editor for oop

    • bldoc

  • automatic documentation generator for actionscript 2.0 (ala javadoc)

    • more more more

    erik natzke

    joshua davis

    yugo nakamura

    amit pitaru