Jan
22
Obama Rama meets the iphone!
The White House has just released its own app for the iPhone and iPod touch! Users will be able to download live streaming of White House events, press conferences, and web chats with government officials. The app also hosts on-demand video, updates from the Briefing Room, posts from the White House blog, and behind-the-scene photos. The US administration will also soon launch a new mobile website, mobile.whitehouse.gov, to let users of other phones stay in touch with what Obama and his government are up to. Did I mention the app is available for free on iTunes?
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Jan
14
Tagging 2010 Style
In December of 2009 self professed copy right violator and graffiti artist Evan Roth photographed over 2,400 graffiti tags found in each of Paris’s 20 districts. Photographs were then archived, tagged and sorted by letter. The ten most commonly used letters by Paris graffiti writers (A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U) were identified for further study. Evan explains that the sets are not intended to display the “best” graffiti tags in Paris, but rather aim to highlight the diversity of forms ranging from upper case to lowercase, simple to complex and legible to cryptic. His work is now on display at the Foundation Cartier-Born in the Streets graffiti exhibition in Paris. Click here to see the video Graffiti Taxonomy
Recently Roth and artist/developer Chris Sugrue created an app that allows graffiti artists to create and database multidimensional tags. This app is part of an ongoing study on the motion of graffiti. Artists use the app to create four dimensional tags that can be saved as GML (graffiti markup language). This project is open source and invites others to use the archived data to create new application and visualizations.
Tags: app, art, artists, graffiti, graffiti artists, media, programming
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