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My investigation into lifestream. I discovered this 1996 dissertation paper from Yale, which talks about the idea from a book called Mirror Worlds, and make into reality as a desktop metaphor (do watch the quicktime video on the web page). I just realized how similar it is to a feature of Apple's latest Leopard OS called Time machine.
After seeing a presentation from visualization legend Robert Horn, I began to work harder to find the right metaphors to build ideas around. Here was the first one I produced for a client, which dramatically helped simplify a complex proposition. Some labels have been changed to protect the innocent :)
Definitions of flip book on the Web:
A flip book is a book with a series of pictures varying gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate, simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but may also be geared towards adults and employ a series of photographs rather than drawings. Flip books are not always separate books, but may appear as an added feature in ordinary books or magazines, often in the page corners.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_book
#ds373 (contender) Go white on white today. Make a photograph of a white subject on a white background. (11/23/10)
hmm, it appears that all whites are not alike. i kind of liked this one because it looks like the hand is floating above the lace but went conventional.
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macromonday metaphor......... btb, this "hand" is actually really small maybe 3 inches long (2/14/11)
This is my photographic metaphor for what a winter in Galveston has done to my psyche.
On the sunless beaches of Galveston Texas.
I selected this as my metaphor for e-learning as I believe that the e -learning provides a plethora of opportunites and avenues for learning and this maze represents the many paths in which it can take, and will continue to change and expand in the future!
This building was going to be Anglo Irish Bank's new headquarters. It's unlikely they'll be moving in now.
*Update 2nd-Sept 2010. Looks like it has finally got planning permission. Whether there's any money to complete it is another matter.
Created by Swedish artist Karl Momen in 1986, Metaphor, exhibits a 27m tall concrete "tree" with six spheres containing rocks and minerals native to Utah. A small, non-visible marker contains the words from Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy". Unfortunately for Metaphor, its location in the middle of the Boonville Salt Flats with no easy stopovers causes confusion to most passing by, many thinking that it is just a communications tower of some type. The fence was recently erected to prevent tiles from falling on visitors.
Wendover, Utah
It's difficult to convey how vexing this app is without actually showing it in action. All the same, I can't recall the last time I encountered a UI that was so full of inappropriate metaphors, unexpected behavior, and unclear information.
Where should we start? OK, how about that stickshift control. Seems straightforward at first...until you start thinking about those icons. What exactly do they mean? I *think* that the aircraft icon means "High performance", but what does the walking person mean in relation to the aircraft? And "Auto"? Does the ordering of the detents reflect in increase in performance from left to right? Right to left? If not, why use a shifter-and-slot metaphor?
Now let's talk about the interaction: Why did ASUS go to the trouble of making the user *drag* a faux stickshift in a slot in the first place? A horizontal click-and-drag isn't exactly the easiest motion in the world. I'd like to watch a person with motor disabilities try to drag it.
Then there's the radial graph thingy on the right....really? If you could see it change when you dragged the stickshift, you'd immediately notice that It's not easy to discriminate between different states. Call me old-fashioned, but why not a line or bar graph? Conclusion: someone in Taiwan got a little carried away with the Photoshop...remember designers, just because you *can* doesn't mean you should.
And those four larger icons up top? I bet you think you can click them. Psych! You can't. They're just kinda there for show or something. Unless I haven't yet figured out how to make them work. Which is a distinct possibility, given my experience with this little piece of bad UX.
I made this negative on November 9, 2008 - the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht. I made this in the Seligenstadt Jewish cemetery (Germany). It was destroyed on that night in 1938; in fact this headstone was destroyed and reassembled later.
For me, this image has a lot of metaphors about those events - death, destruction, walls/barriers, isolation, distortion, etc. To see something that was destroyed/broken and put back together reminds me of the Jewish struggle.
This is an 8” x 10” Waxed Salt Print from a Wet Plate Collodion Negative.
(This is the only un-processed pic on this website)
I went with a few Ukraine friends to Beuel, a small city close to cologne, for some campfire and nature. The most exciting thing though is the meteor shower. Under the influence of various dramas I watched as a teenager, I always thought it's one of the most romantic thing to do. But since I have got a pretty bad myopia and I have not been outdoor that much during nights, I have seen shooting star only once, in my entire life. Also sadly I never watched meteor shower with a lover before either, for various reasons. So I believe it's one of the hardest things in the world to see a meteor shower, or even a shooting star.
I lay on the grass for 1 hours waiting for my beautiful meteor shower. My companions saw more than 8 shooting stars, yet I hadn't seen any! I got pissed.
' Why is it that I can't see any while you keep on spotting them?!!'
' You have to look loosely at the sky, and do nothing but to enjoy it. If you keep busy checking your iphone app for the star map and focusing on a particular one, of course you will miss it.
It's not that difficult. It's all in your minds.'
Then I saw it. I saw five!! Well it's nothing so shockingly beautiful; it's rather ephemeral. We did not manage to see the meteor shower either. But being surrounded by nice people and warm fire, it's cozy and romantic enough.
When you think of love, friendship, or other sacred and far-reaching things like goals of life, they do sound like shooting stars. -Seriously, when you try to perceive it you can not even materialize it - just like the fact that I can't capture stars with my camera. If you focus on the highest goals or the hottest girls/guys (aka. brightest stars), you miss even more beautiful things. The really meaningful things are actually quite approachable, as common as an old shoe.
I used self-reflection in this one because there is no mirror so it is not a literal reflection. This one is supposed to represent the harmful effects nicotine has on the body. It is my hand holding the Puff Bar and the shadow is supposed to look like a gun. I have seen this with a cigarette before, but now that my generation mainly uses vape, I wanted to make it more modern. This could be a literal and conceptual approach. It is more a self-reflection on how nicotine could kill you if not used with caution. I think I was successful but the poster in the back might come off as distracting. The lighting is artificial indirect CF.
Ladies' night on Thursdays. This poster was clever in that it had a lady in traditional Arabic headgear, except that the material was terry towel material.
I took this picture downtown at the Riverwalk and the way the kids simply enjoyed the water was amazing.
If water is a nutrient to life then learning is a nutrient to children. They simply need it to grow.
I spent waaaaay too much time today trying to make a creative photo out of a potato on my couch. This doesn't light me up either but I'm done for the day.
365: the 2012 edition
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Madurai Naickker Mahal. This is seen in many film song sequences (Bombay's Kannalane). It is in shambles.
I saw this pair of swim fins on the motorcycle seat and would have loved to see the motorcyclist operating (or attempting to operate) his motorcycle with them on. Visions of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.