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geekgirl (r)osiex aka the metal cupcake publishing about interesting things for a really long time!
The proliferation of digital cameras means that we are creating hundreds of thousands more photos then we used to, and consequently devising ever more creative ways of categorising them. In this case it is the somewhat silly, unexpectedly cute and momentarily philosophical faces in places, a photographic collection of faces found in everyday places.
Google has launched OpenSocial, its platform for building social networks. Unlike Facebook, OpenSocial is not a consumer destination. Rather, it’s a way for developers to more easily build social networks, and to link them and their users to other OpenSocial nets. Very clever. But Facebook is still the consumer network to beat.
Google’s version of this “write once run anywhere” concept is called OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable developers to create applications for social networks, blogs and any Web sites that accept the OpenSocial code. Currently, developers have to write new programs for each site, even if the functionality will be the same on each site.
This initiative “marks the first time that multiple social networks have been made accessible under a common API,” according to a Google statement.
The OpenSocial resources for developers and Web sites will be available at code.google.com/apis/opensocial.
GIRLS BOYS MACHINES 2007 Screening by RMIT Media Arts Graduates
When: November 15th 2007 @ 7pm Where: ACMI, Federation Square Melbourne Cost: Free
RMIT’s Media Arts course has a long and illustrious history within the Melbourne art scene. This year the graduating students have produced work that explores relationships between technology, content and form, whilst remaining innovative and dedicated to a consistent art practice. The resulting screening will be a mix of multi- disciplinary screen based work at once challenging, original and exciting. Spanning synaesthetic experience, performance, hand-drawn gestural works and much more. Art + image + sound collide at ACMI Nov 15th 2007 @ 7pm. Come get some!
Dubbed electroluminescent yarn, or “EL yarn”, this new fabric is created from a multi-layer electroluminescent thin film composite material made of regular yarn on the inside dipped in a special light-emitting ink. Developed at Manchester University’s School of Materials, EL yarn could be put to a variety of uses, such as outfits for joggers and cyclists, novelty and promotional applications or for emergency situations.
In September this year Dr Melinda Rackham, ANAT’s Director and 3D world author and theorist, was invited to join a 6 member international Jury assessing the Annual Second Life Architecture & Design Competition, a first of its kind, held at the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. The jury deliberated over the 126 submissions before a live audience at the Architekturforum Linz, while being simultaneously streamed into Second Life. Four outstanding projects, that took advantage of both the artistic and technical possibilities afforded by Second Life were selected as finalists, Tanja Meyle’s “Living Cloud”, DC Spensley’s “Full Immersion Hyperformalism”, Adam Nash’s “17 Unsung Songs” and Max Moswitzer’s “White Noise”. The selected projects were presented online where the public were invited to vote for their favourite. The winner, Tanja Meyle, was announced on October 25 and received a 1,000-euro grand prize. Dr Melinda Rackham will be contributing an article based on the -empyre- Second Life discussion to the upcoming book, an outcome of the competition, entitled “The Space Between People”.