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Aug 11
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be2camp Birmingham: Thursday August 12th (Free)

By be2camp, birmingham

We are just fine tuning our talk for tomorrows Be2Camp in Birmingham – an ‘unconference’ about social media, digital tools and the built environment held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on 12 August 2010 from 12.00 – 8.00pm

There are tickets left and its free so if your in Birmingham or around town it looks like an event well worth going to. You can Register Here.

Central Library, Birmingham


Part of the agenda this year will aim to explore the possibilities for the new Library of Birmingham building and discuss how digital tools might change the way we experience a 21st century library.
The speakers and topics confirmed so far are as follows:

Speaker: Brian Gambles – Head of BCC Library Services
Introduction to Library of Birmingham Project
Speaker: TBC

Second Life and the Virtual Library of Birmingham
Speaker: TBC

Wifi, interaction design and the Physical Library of Birmingham
Paul Wilkinson & Martin Brown – Be2Camp

Be2Camp Awards – The final shortlist

Proboscis – http://bookleteer.com
Self publishing + augmented reading

Andy Hudson-Smith – http://www.digitalurban.org (ie us!)
http://www.talesofthings.com

Michael Kohn – SliderStudio
Democratic Design: StickyWorld

Andy Hartwell – Substrakt
Mobile & Web Apps in the Built Environment

Nick Corbett with Geoff Henderson – Urban Living & DNA
Web2.0 & Sense of Place urban design project

Nick Booth – http://podnosh.com
The Librarian at Large

James Thomson – http://www.burohappold.com
Building Information Modelling: Virtual Reality, Parametric Geometry, Google Earth

Bob Leung – Woobius
Getting your web 2.0 fix in large companies

Alison Smith – Pesky People
Disability & Digital Accessibility

Aug 11
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be2camp Birmingham: Thursday August 12th (Free)

By be2camp, birmingham

We are just fine tuning our talk for tomorrows Be2Camp in Birmingham – an ‘unconference’ about social media, digital tools and the built environment held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on 12 August 2010 from 12.00 – 8.00pm

There are tickets left and its free so if your in Birmingham or around town it looks like an event well worth going to. You can Register Here.

Central Library, Birmingham


Part of the agenda this year will aim to explore the possibilities for the new Library of Birmingham building and discuss how digital tools might change the way we experience a 21st century library.
The speakers and topics confirmed so far are as follows:

Speaker: Brian Gambles – Head of BCC Library Services
Introduction to Library of Birmingham Project
Speaker: TBC

Second Life and the Virtual Library of Birmingham
Speaker: TBC

Wifi, interaction design and the Physical Library of Birmingham
Paul Wilkinson & Martin Brown – Be2Camp

Be2Camp Awards – The final shortlist

Proboscis – http://bookleteer.com
Self publishing + augmented reading

Andy Hudson-Smith – http://www.digitalurban.org (ie us!)
http://www.talesofthings.com

Michael Kohn – SliderStudio
Democratic Design: StickyWorld

Andy Hartwell – Substrakt
Mobile & Web Apps in the Built Environment

Nick Corbett with Geoff Henderson – Urban Living & DNA
Web2.0 & Sense of Place urban design project

Nick Booth – http://podnosh.com
The Librarian at Large

James Thomson – http://www.burohappold.com
Building Information Modelling: Virtual Reality, Parametric Geometry, Google Earth

Bob Leung – Woobius
Getting your web 2.0 fix in large companies

Alison Smith – Pesky People
Disability & Digital Accessibility

Aug 04
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Invisible, Hidden, Parallel Cities: Twitter Landscapes

By city map, invisible cities, london paraverse, mapping, New York, social networks, Twitter

By revealing the social networks present within the urban environment, Invisible Cities describes a new kind of city—a city of the mind. The movie below by Christian Marc Schmidt displays geocoded activity from online services such as Twitter and Flickr, both in real-time and in aggregate. Real-time activity is represented as individual nodes that appear whenever a message or image is posted. Aggregate activity is reflected in the underlying terrain: over time, the landscape warps as data is accrued, creating hills and valleys representing areas with high and low densities of data.

In the piece, nodes are connected by narrative threads, based on themes emerging from the overlaid information. These pathways create dense meta-networks of meaning, blanketing the terrain and connecting disparate areas of the city:

Invisible Cities maps information from one realm—online social networks—to another: an immersive, three dimensional space. In doing so, the piece creates a parallel experience to the physical urban environment. The interplay between the aggregate and the real-time recreates the kind of dynamics present within the physical world, where the city is both a vessel for and a product of human activity. It is ultimately a parallel city of intersections, discovery, and memory, and a medium for experiencing the physical environment anew.

Our movie below of London’s Tweets displays a similar ‘hidden city’:


As we posted a few weeks ago, we have been harvesting geospatial data from Twitter with the aim of creating a series of new city maps based on Twitter data. Via a radius of 30km around New York, London, Paris, Munich we have collated the number of Tweets and created our New City Landscape Maps. The maps created by UrbanTick detail the social networking landscaping.

Pictured above is London, below is New York:
UrbanTick has the full run down with New York, London, Paris and Munich, all available in glorious full screen mode via a Google Maps viewer – head over to take a look at the New City Landscapes.
Thanks got to Steven Gray who did the coding and Fabian over at Urban Tick for converting the data into maps. Also thanks to Dr Chris Speed who sent in the invisible cities movie link.
Aug 03
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Rubika: Animated Urban Short for Canal +

By 3dmax, animated short

Below is an amazing extract from a short named Rubika produced for “Le Laboratoire” (Canal +). The short was co-directed by Ludovic Habas and Claire Baudeanit with 6 classmates and Guillaume Plantevin, a 2D artist, who gave them the original idea and the universe.

Extract of Rubika ( Le laboratoire – Canal + ) from Ludovic HABAS on Vimeo.

We think the clip is simply stunning and to top it all below is a ‘making off’ detailing the character animation and a few insights into the building of the world:

Ludovic Habas – MAXscript making Of Rubika from Ludovic HABAS on Vimeo.

Inspiring work.

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