An interactive map (requires Chrome or Safari) created by Iain Mullan for London Music Hack Day 2012 based on all the locations mentioned in the Man In Black’s 1966 recording of Jeff Mack’s 1959 tune.
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Spanish audiovisual producers MyLapse use a technique that turns timelapse footage into moving kaleidoscopic images.
Here, they apply it to the architecture of Barcelona.
Related: Eye Candy: Mirror City
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Now that you’ve updated your iPhone to the latest version of iOS that Cupertino has spawned, you’ll be looking for apps that have been built to take full advantage of all the new shiny features.
So here’s a couple of Irish built apps to start you off filling all those empty screens.
Event Post
Event Post by Keven McCafferty is an app to help you remember when you last did all those dull things you just don’t want to be bothered remembering.
A small form lets you set up an irregular but reoccurring event (like buying heating oil) and simply record when it happens so you can remember far more important things like who’s round it is next time you’re in the pub with your mates.
Goal Streaks
It takes about 66 days to form a new habit and Goal Streaks by Peer Assembly aims to help you along the way by gently reminding you how you’re doing.
It’s quick and flexible to add in new targets. There’s a lot of joy to be had from ticking things off and seeing a streak build up (or is that just me?).
Soundwave
We’ve talked about the guys from Soundwave a few times before. They are, as far as we can tell, the only Irish app to have been featured by Apple in their “Designed for iOS 7” section. This is on top of getting selected as an Editor’s Choice on the App Store. They’re great ambassadors for the capability of the IRish tech scene.
They’ve rebuilt the interface from scratch to take full advantage of the new look and feel of iOS and it’s already getting plaudits from the tech press.
Available on iTunes for free (there’s also the an Android version)
(The Broadsheet app will be updated soonish)
(As always no favours were given or received for this post)
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The retro news of the week courtesy of dailyinfographic.
Artist Pedro Reyes has a thing about turning weapons into musical instruments. His new project, Disarm, is an eight-piece mechanised orchestra constructed (using weapons confiscated from Mexican drug cartels) with the help of several musicians and media studio CoCOLab.
All the mechanised instruments are connected to computers and pre-programmable.
The exhibition debuted earlier this year at the Lisson Gallery in London and moves to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh next month, with a talk by the artist on October 1st.
A stunning digital trompe l’oeil of aerial sequences by London-based editor and motion graphics artist Theo ‘mustardcuffins’ Tagholm who sez of it:
Hiding in plain sight, the photograph skims across the skin of reality.
Yes indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6eNuJdxAoQ
The short film Noah by first time filmmakers Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg plays out entirely on a teenager’s computer screen.
Shortlisted for the 2013 Toronto Film Festival, it’s a thoroughly modern tale of suspicion, betrayal and heartbreak in which the eponymous hero’s love life takes a sudden turn for the worse as he multitasks online.
Briefly NSFW (male nudity)
Of this shot, captured last Saturday during the launch of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, NASA sez:
A still camera on a sound trigger captured this intriguing photo of an airborne frog as NASA’s LADEE spacecraft lifts off from Pad 0B at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The photo team confirms the frog is real and was captured in a single frame by one of the remote cameras used to photograph the launch. The condition of the frog, however, is uncertain.