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This work introduces layer jamming as an enabling technology for designing deformable, stiffness-tunable, thin sheet interfaces. Interfaces that exhibit tunable stiffness properties can yield dynamic haptic feedback and shape deformation capabilities.
credit: Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab
NHTSA Administrator David Strickland says “Today’s numbers reflect the tangible benefits of record seat belt use and strong anti-drunk driving enforcement campaigns.”
Photo Courtesy of NHTSA
U.S. highway deaths fell to 33,808 for 2009 -- the lowest number since 1950.
The record-breaking decline in traffic fatalities occurred even while estimated vehicle miles traveled in 2009 increased by 0.2 percent over 2008 levels.
In Texas, total fatalities were 3071 in 2009, compared with 3476 in 2008. Alcohol-related fatalities were 1235 in 2009, compared with 1310 in 2008.
To see a chart on a state by state basis, visit:
www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811363.pdf
and scroll down to Table #8.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released the updated 2009 fatality and injury data in a press release September 9.
According to the press release:
2009 saw the lowest fatality and injury rates ever recorded: 1.13 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2009, compared to 1.26 deaths for 2008.
Fatalities declined in all categories of vehicles including motorcycles, which saw fatalities fall by 850 from 2008, breaking an 11-year cycle of annual increases.
“At the Department of Transportation, we are laser-focused on our top priority: safety,” said Secretary LaHood. “Today’s announcement shows that America’s roads are the safest they’ve ever been. But they must be safer. And we will not rest until they are.”
As part of the Department’s campaign to reduce traffic fatalities, Secretary LaHood is holding a National Distracted Driving Summit this week in Washington, D.C. The Secretary is bringing together leading transportation officials, safety advocates, law enforcement, industry representatives, researchers and victims affected by distraction-related crashes to address challenges and identify opportunities for national anti-distracted driving efforts. This follows the first summit Secretary LaHood held in the Fall of 2009 that sparked a national conversation about texting and talking on cell phones while driving.
According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study based on 2006 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for those between the ages of 3 and 34.
In addition to the record-breaking drop in fatalities, the number of people injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2009 declined for a 10th straight year in a row, falling an estimated 5.5 percent from 2008, according to NHTSA data released.
Alcohol impaired driving fatalities declined by 7.4 percent in 2009 – 10,839 compared to 11,711 reported in 2008. Overall, 33 states and Puerto Rico experienced a decline in the number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in 2009 compared to 2008.
“Today’s numbers reflect the tangible benefits of record seat belt use and strong anti-drunk driving enforcement campaigns,” said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland. “But we are still losing more than 30,000 lives a year on our highways, and about a third of these involve drunk driving. We will continue to work with our state partners to strictly enforce both seat belt use and anti-drunk driving laws across this nation, every day and every night.”
Forty-one states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico all had reductions in fatalities, led by Florida (with 422 fewer fatalities) and Texas (with 405 fewer fatalities).
For more information about this and other national highway news, visit:
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The 2016 exhibition "Radical Atoms" is centered around the works of MIT Tangible Media Group.
© 2012 Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab
This simple video projection window display installation was a collaborative art project between Chairman Ting and Tangible Interaction in Vancouver, Canada.
The installation piece was created for only one night during the popular fireworks event to help maximize impact and generate awareness for Single Bicycles, a quality bicycle brand situated in downtown Vancouver on Robson Street.
From concept to production, this art installation took over a month to prepare, execute and test. The custom music track was composed and produced by Tom Pettapiece.
CREDITS + INFO:
Animation and production: Tangible Interaction
Illustration and artwork: Chairman Ting
Concept: Chairman Ting x Tangible Interaction
Music: Tom Pettapiece
Video edit: Chairman Ting
Client: Single Bicycles
Location: Vancouver, Canada
LINKS:
www.flickr.com/photos/tompettapiece/
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Our Maker Faire project was a 16x8 array of nylon lanterns suspended in two canopies that filled a 20x10 foot space. Half the space contained couches for weary Maker Faire guests to relax and admire the overhead patterns shifting to music. This year was the busiest Maker Faire ever, and the couches were always full, the aisle in front of the booth was always packed, and we were answering questions nonstop.
The lanterns were lit with our new RGB LED modules, controlled by our new 8-channel LED controller, the OctoBar. They aren't in the macetech store yet, but will be soon. The concept was inspired by our customer Alex Beim at Tangible Interaction, who used our products to light a 10x10 grid of lanterns for a 2011 New Years party. We used a Processing sketch to send the pixel array to an Arduino at 25fps. Several video effects were contributed by the community.
Gagarin’s most recent production is the Wild Reindeer Exhibition in the Nationalpark Centre in Hardangervidda. The exhibition is comprised of 13 interactive installations where users get to explore and experience, via tangible and unique solutions, the various historical, biological and social aspects related to the existence of this wild creature.
Gagarin‘s role in this project was the concept design, script writing, construction of prototypes, media design, programming, media technology planning and construction of the installations.
The exhibition was designed by Torbjørn Nielssen from Spekter AS and Rjukan Data Service provided the IT hardware. The project leader was Per Lykke.
Matt D. Jones showing off his nifty Nokia mobile phone.
This photograph was taken during the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California at the Westin Horton Plaza Hotel.
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 19, 1893) was a prominent American abolitionist and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women.
In 1847, Stone was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was the first recorded American woman to retain her own last name after marriage.
Stone's organizational activities for the cause of women's rights yielded tangible gains in the difficult political environment of the 19th century. Stone helped initiate the first National Women's Rights Convention and she supported and sustained it annually along with a number of other local, state and regional activist conventions. Stone spoke in front of a number of legislative bodies to promote laws giving more rights to women. She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the largest group of like-minded women's rights reformers, the politically-moderate American Woman Suffrage Association, which worked for decades at the state level in favor of women's right to vote.
Lucy Stone was born on August 13, 1818 on her family's farm at Coy's Hill in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. She was the eighth of nine children of Hannah Matthews Stone (born Hannah Bowman Matthews) and Francis Stone. Her father drank too much hard cider, had a raging temper, and ruled the household as master. The family lived close to the land; to augment the food supply, the boys fished, and hunted squirrels, woodchucks, deer, and birds. To supplement the family income, the girls wove fabric, canned fruits, and sewed piecework for the local shoe factory. All the children tended the family's cows. Despite a steady but modest income from selling cheeses and shoes, Hannah Stone had to beg her husband for money to buy clothing and other necessities for the family. Hannah sometimes stole coins from his purse, and she sold an occasional cheese out of his sight. Lucy was unhappy seeing the subterfuge required of her mother to maintain a simple household. When the Bible was quoted to her, defending the subordinate position of women to men, Stone declared that when she grew up, she'd learn Greek and Hebrew so she could correct the mistranslation that she was confident lay behind such verses.
At sixteen, Stone began teaching in nearby New Braintree to augment her family's income. In 1837, she replaced a male teacher in Paxton, but was paid less than half his wage. Stone asked for equity, and her salary subsequently increased to $16 per month ($329 in current value)—higher than average pay for a woman but less than that of a man doing the same work.
In 1838, Stone was a member of a Congregationalist church in West Brookfield. A young deacon of the church, in contravention of the pastoral letter, invited Abby Kelley to speak to the congregation against slavery. For Kelley's appearance, the church was filled with residents of the area, including the whole Stone family. A church meeting was subsequently called to discuss the deacon's rebellion and to determine if he should be punished, and Stone raised her hand to vote against any penalty. The minister discounted her vote, saying that, though she was a member of the church, she was not a voting member. This event angered Stone and spurred her interest in women's voting rights.
In early August 1843, just before she turned 25, Stone traveled by train, steamship and stagecoach to Oberlin College in Ohio, the country's first college to admit both women and African Americans. She entered the college believing that women should vote and assume political office, that women should study the classic professions and that women should be able to speak their minds in a public forum.
After Stone returned to Massachusetts as the first woman in that state to receive a college degree, she returned to teaching so that she could pay back several school loans. In October 1847, she gave her first public speech on the subject of women's rights, entitled The Province of Women, at the invitation of her brother Bowman Stone, to speak at his church in Gardner, Massachusetts.
Stone's forthright ability to speak out about abolition was noticed in early 1847 by William Lloyd Garrison, and in mid-1847 he approached her about becoming an agent for his abolition society. In 1848, she accepted and was hired for $6 a week by Garrison and Wendell Phillips as a lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, to speak about the evils of slavery.
In the summer of 1852, Stone went to Seneca Falls, New York, to meet at the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and help draw up the charter for a proposed "People's College". Horace Greeley was there, and Stone met Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Amelia Bloomer for the first time. Stone admired Bloomer's trousered dress that she had been advocating since 1850 as offering greater freedom of movement and being more hygienic. The costume allowed women to work more freely, especially to carry things up stairways rather than using both hands to lift their dresses. Back home, Stone bought black silk for simple pantaloons and arranged for the tailoring of her own Bloomer dress, scorning any feminine adornment such as lace.
Stone affiliated with the temperance movement because it attracted a wide range of men and women who were willing to push for change in society. For Stone, temperance was a stepping-stone—it offered a compelling reason to give women further rights.[61] Stone argued that a woman should be able to file for divorce if her husband was a drunkard. In this, Stone was more radical than Susan Anthony who proposed only a legal separation between an alcoholic man and his wife and children, to allow for the possibility of the husband's redemption and recovery. Stone also argued for property rights for women so that a man could not misuse the fruits of his wife's toil. Many years later, she recalled "If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar."
Henry Browne "Harry" Blackwell's first sight of Stone was in 1851 from the gallery of the Massachusetts legislature as Stone addressed that body in support of an amendment to the state constitution which proposed full civil rights to women. Harry Blackwell, an abolitionist from a reform-minded family in Cincinnati, Ohio, saw Stone speak on further occasions and wrote of her, saying "I decidedly prefer her to any lady I have met, always excepting the Bloomer costume which I don't like practically, tho theoretically I believe in it with my whole soul—It is quite doubtful whether I shall be able to succeed in again meeting her, as she is travelling around—having been born locomotive, I believe." Blackwell gained an introduction to Stone through his late father's friend William Lloyd Garrison, proposing marriage to her within an hour of their first meeting. Blackwell was soundly refused, but he began an irresistible two-year courtship with Stone.
In October 1853, following the National Women's Rights Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, Blackwell arranged for Stone a series of speaking engagements in the South during which she was invited to stay in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, with the Blackwell family. Harry Blackwell's parents accepted Stone warmly into their home, treating her as a daughter. The Blackwell family thought highly of her spirited oratory against slavery. Her tour through the South was a financial success, with audiences of 2,000–3,000 packing the halls to see the "Yankee abolitionist in bloomers". From Louisville, Kentucky, Stone wrote to Blackwell "I am holding meetings here which are wonderfully successful. It would not be strange if this slave state should give political and legal equality to its white women sooner even than Massachusetts." Stone earned between $500 and $1,000 a week, some $14,000 to $28,000 in current value; she used a portion of the money to print speeches and circulate them widely. Stone sent much of the remaining money to Blackwell for him to invest as he saw fit. Blackwell, already deep in debt from poor real-estate investments, bought for her over 7,400 acres (3,000 ha) of land in Wisconsin and Illinois, convinced that a major railroad line would pass through it. Rails were laid elsewhere, and the land would prove "a heavy load to carry."
In late 1854, Stone agreed to marry Blackwell. The two set the date for May 1, 1855, and Stone began again to book lectures, including an appearance in Toronto before the Parliament of Canada in support of a proposed married woman's property law. In the months leading up to their wedding, Blackwell wrote a letter to Stone saying "I want to make a protest, distinct and emphatic, against the laws of marriage. I wish, as a husband, to renounce all the privileges which the law confers on me, which are not strictly mutual, and I intend to do so." Inspired by prior wedding statements made by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill in 1851, and by Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina Grimké in 1838,[87] the two wrote up a tract they called "Marriage Protest" and printed a number of copies to hand out at their wedding. To begin the ceremony, they stood up together and read the Protest, after which the usual marriage service (less the word "obey") was officiated by Reverend Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Stone and Blackwell set up house in Orange, New Jersey, and Stone bore her first child in September 1857: Alice Stone Blackwell. Blackwell attended the birth, but both before and afterward was often away on business, leaving Stone alone to raise the child. When the infant was only a few months old, Stone protested a tax assessed on her property, arguing since she was not able to vote, that this was "taxation without representation". The state of New Jersey sent a constable to her home on January 18, 1858 and some of her furniture was taken outside and auctioned off, starting with a marble table and two steel-plate portraits, one of William Lloyd Garrison and the other of Ohio Governor Salmon P. Chase. A sympathetic neighbor bought these three items for $10.50 and returned them to Stone. Enough was realized from the brief sale to meet the tax requirement. Publicity from the refusal to pay taxes served to highlight the cause for women's rights; Stone made no further trouble with tax officials.
During the Civil War, Stone joined with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Martha Coffin Wright, Amy Post, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Ernestine Rose, and Angelina Grimké Weld to form the Woman's National Loyal League in 1863. The group held a convention in New York City, and resolved to fight for full emancipation and enfranchisement of African Americans. In 1864, the organization gathered 400,000 signatures to petition the United States Congress, significantly assisting in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. Once Reconstruction began, Stone helped form the American Equal Rights Association (AERA). AERA's main goal was to achieve equal voting rights for people of either gender and any race.
The theme of the evening was "tactile" and it featured several Digital Design students and grads presenting their projects. Alex Beim, CEO/Creative Director from Tangible Interactions presented a special talk about projects that are both multi-touch in their behaviour and "touching" in the way they connect with audiences.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.
In this image, Duncan Rawlinson brilliantly blurs the lines between photography and modern AI-powered image generation tools to produce a visually captivating portrayal of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Rawlinson starts with his signature photographic method, leveraging his prowess in capturing the nuances of his subjects. His choice of the Phase One XF IQ4 150MP Camera ensures an unmatched level of detail, a testament to his commitment to quality.
From this photographic foundation, Rawlinson skillfully transitions to the digital art realm. The AI's "head" and its complex neural network are not captured through the lens, but through the precise and calculated application of AI image generation tools. These tools allow him to visualize an abstract concept like a neural network, converting it into tangible lines and nodes, interweaving through the AI's head.
The creation process is thus a symbiotic dance between high-resolution photography and AI-driven digital art. Rawlinson marries the tactile realism of photography with the boundless possibilities of AI-powered graphic design. The result is a unique hybrid image, demonstrating how AI can be used as an artistic tool to bring abstract concepts to life.
By creating the image in his signature style, Rawlinson adds a layer of artistic interpretation to the AI's representation. He invites the viewer to appreciate not only the AI's intricate complexity but also the novel way in which traditional photography can be elevated by modern AI tools. This image stands as a testament to the intersection of art, technology, and human creativity.
The exhibition shows through fourteen interactive stations that the fate of man is tied together with the fate of the seabirds along the coast of Norway.
In short; The fact that our birds, our old way of life and our climate are threatened are intertwined, and they all result from our globalized way of life.
When designing the exhibition the goal was to, by provocative and evocative installations, motivate people to action rather than overload them with information or preach to them with morals. The focus was on interactivity rather than on a passive intake of information.
The installations are quite unique where tangibility plays a key role and adds to the playfulness of the experience, but we also used Kinect motion tracking for a “full body interaction” when needed.
Together this creates a meaningful experience where guests are involved to be co-creators through multiple interactions.
The exhibition was designed by Gagarin and Batteriid Architects aſter winning a 1 prize in a competition for the project.
The energy was tangible at this year's PMA Fresh Connections: Retail! Over 170 attendees gathered April 11-12 at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott to make new connections and gain new business solutions. From the cocktail reception and immersive UnConference to the optional Produce Rescue Glean and Produce Retail Tour, attendees were surrounded by peers and potential partners at every turn, and the buzz could be felt over the entire two days.
Tangible Engine is a new visualizer, configurator, and software development kit that allows developers to easily connect real-world objects to applications running on Ideum multitouch tables. Tangible Engine also comes with a starter kit of object markers and instructions for 3D printing them. Tangible Engine works with Ideum multitouch tables that use 3M touch technology, including the 55" and 65" Platform and Pro.
To learn more please visit our website.
The exhibition shows through fourteen interactive stations that the fate of man is tied together with the fate of the seabirds along the coast of Norway.
In short; The fact that our birds, our old way of life and our climate are threatened are intertwined, and they all result from our globalized way of life.
When designing the exhibition the goal was to, by provocative and evocative installations, motivate people to action rather than overload them with information or preach to them with morals. The focus was on interactivity rather than on a passive intake of information.
The installations are quite unique where tangibility plays a key role and adds to the playfulness of the experience, but we also used Kinect motion tracking for a “full body interaction” when needed.
Together this creates a meaningful experience where guests are involved to be co-creators through multiple interactions.
The exhibition was designed by Gagarin and Batteriid Architects aſter winning a 1 prize in a competition for the project.
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See the video via Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/14031747
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This simple video projection window display installation was a collaborative art project between Chairman Ting and Tangible Interaction in Vancouver, Canada.
The installation piece was created for only one night during the popular fireworks event to help maximize impact and generate awareness for Single Bicycles, a quality bicycle brand situated in downtown Vancouver on Robson Street.
From concept to production, this art installation took over a month to prepare, execute and test. The custom music track was composed and produced by Tom Pettapiece.
CREDITS + INFO:
Animation and production: Tangible Interaction
Illustration and artwork: Chairman Ting
Concept: Chairman Ting x Tangible Interaction
Music: Tom Pettapiece
Video edit: Chairman Ting
Client: Single Bicycles
Location: Vancouver, Canada
LINKS:
www.flickr.com/photos/tompettapiece/
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There has been a tangible lack of free music and arts shows in the heart of downtown Seattle since the historic Summer Nights at the Pier concert series was shut down a few years back. Who could forget those sultry summery concerts that unfolded against a backdrop of glistening water and setting sun since 1991? Some of my more memorable nights at Pier 62 & 63, included performers that have ranged from sexy soul singer Macy Gray to quirky Scottish rocker David Byrne, and not forgetting the timeless and über-talented Carole King of Tapestry fame.
But thanks to that wonderful, cover-all invention of "Health and Safety", gone are those marvelous summer concert nights on the pier, to be replaced by - wait for it - a dozen cheap, randomly placed plastic chairs that are screwed to the pier and a ping pong table emblazoned with "Waterfront Seattle" with a selection of burst ping pong balls you can't even use. And they call this entertainment……
Leica M4 & 4/21mm Super-Angulon
B+W ND2 & B+W Orange Filter
Sekonic L-308S
Ilford PanF 50
Adox Adonal (1:100 - 60min Stand)
Plustek 7600i & Vuescan
The exhibition shows through fourteen interactive stations that the fate of man is tied together with the fate of the seabirds along the coast of Norway.
In short; The fact that our birds, our old way of life and our climate are threatened are intertwined, and they all result from our globalized way of life.
When designing the exhibition the goal was to, by provocative and evocative installations, motivate people to action rather than overload them with information or preach to them with morals. The focus was on interactivity rather than on a passive intake of information.
The installations are quite unique where tangibility plays a key role and adds to the playfulness of the experience, but we also used Kinect motion tracking for a “full body interaction” when needed.
Together this creates a meaningful experience where guests are involved to be co-creators through multiple interactions.
The exhibition was designed by Gagarin and Batteriid Architects aſter winning a 1 prize in a competition for the project.
The energy was tangible at this year's PMA Fresh Connections: Retail! Over 170 attendees gathered April 11-12 at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott to make new connections and gain new business solutions. From the cocktail reception and immersive UnConference to the optional Produce Rescue Glean and Produce Retail Tour, attendees were surrounded by peers and potential partners at every turn, and the buzz could be felt over the entire two days.
Our Maker Faire project was a 16x8 array of nylon lanterns suspended in two canopies that filled a 20x10 foot space. Half the space contained couches for weary Maker Faire guests to relax and admire the overhead patterns shifting to music. This year was the busiest Maker Faire ever, and the couches were always full, the aisle in front of the booth was always packed, and we were answering questions nonstop.
The lanterns were lit with our new RGB LED modules, controlled by our new 8-channel LED controller, the OctoBar. They aren't in the macetech store yet, but will be soon. The concept was inspired by our customer Alex Beim at Tangible Interaction, who used our products to light a 10x10 grid of lanterns for a 2011 New Years party. We used a Processing sketch to send the pixel array to an Arduino at 25fps. Several video effects were contributed by the community.
The energy was tangible at this year's PMA Fresh Connections: Retail! Over 170 attendees gathered April 11-12 at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott to make new connections and gain new business solutions. From the cocktail reception and immersive UnConference to the optional Produce Rescue Glean and Produce Retail Tour, attendees were surrounded by peers and potential partners at every turn, and the buzz could be felt over the entire two days.
We worked with Apologue Studio on the reopening of the new CHANEL Soho store in New York. We provided a custom graffiti wall installation to allow the public to tag the walls of the store. The night was packed with actors and models as well as CHANEL fans, staff and designers, including Karl Lagerfeld.
We created two custom 20 foot walls that run on both Wooster and Spring street in Soho. The walls were used by the guests on the night of the opening and during the day for fashion night out. The tags were captured during the night and played for days after.
There is a uncountable number of tweets and magazine articles reporting on the event and the installation.
Here are a couple
New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/fashion/11DIA RY.html?_r=1&...
Vogue
www.vogue.co.uk/celebrity-photos/100910- chanel-soho-store...
Twitter:
@tangibleint
The Digital Graffiti Wall is a product by Tangible Interaction
The exhibition shows through fourteen interactive stations that the fate of man is tied together with the fate of the seabirds along the coast of Norway.
In short; The fact that our birds, our old way of life and our climate are threatened are intertwined, and they all result from our globalized way of life.
When designing the exhibition the goal was to, by provocative and evocative installations, motivate people to action rather than overload them with information or preach to them with morals. The focus was on interactivity rather than on a passive intake of information.
The installations are quite unique where tangibility plays a key role and adds to the playfulness of the experience, but we also used Kinect motion tracking for a “full body interaction” when needed.
Together this creates a meaningful experience where guests are involved to be co-creators through multiple interactions.
The exhibition was designed by Gagarin and Batteriid Architects aſter winning a 1 prize in a competition for the project.
The exhibition shows through fourteen interactive stations that the fate of man is tied together with the fate of the seabirds along the coast of Norway.
In short; The fact that our birds, our old way of life and our climate are threatened are intertwined, and they all result from our globalized way of life.
When designing the exhibition the goal was to, by provocative and evocative installations, motivate people to action rather than overload them with information or preach to them with morals. The focus was on interactivity rather than on a passive intake of information.
The installations are quite unique where tangibility plays a key role and adds to the playfulness of the experience, but we also used Kinect motion tracking for a “full body interaction” when needed.
Together this creates a meaningful experience where guests are involved to be co-creators through multiple interactions.
The exhibition was designed by Gagarin and Batteriid Architects aſter winning a 1 prize in a competition for the project.
See the video via Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/14031747
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This simple video projection window display installation was a collaborative art project between Chairman Ting and Tangible Interaction in Vancouver, Canada.
The installation piece was created for only one night during the popular fireworks event to help maximize impact and generate awareness for Single Bicycles, a quality bicycle brand situated in downtown Vancouver on Robson Street.
From concept to production, this art installation took over a month to prepare, execute and test. The custom music track was composed and produced by Tom Pettapiece.
CREDITS + INFO:
Animation and production: Tangible Interaction
Illustration and artwork: Chairman Ting
Concept: Chairman Ting x Tangible Interaction
Music: Tom Pettapiece
Video edit: Chairman Ting
Client: Single Bicycles
Location: Vancouver, Canada
LINKS:
www.flickr.com/photos/tompettapiece/
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The Rainbow Group Seminar was off due to exams so Alan organised a demo for Neil Jenkins' Tangible HarmonySpace and Rose Johnson's MusicJacket
Our adidas x Forces of Nice art show in Hong Kong was a huge success thanks to all our friends who have been so supportive and helpful. The show attracted a ton of media and we managed to get some great press in 4 very respectable local magazines including Milk, a prominent urban fashion magazine in Hong Kong.
As the adidas store filled up at maximum capacity of 300+ socialites, celebrities, editors and models we kicked off the party with a live electronic music performance set by Tom Pettapiece and I did a quick digital graffiti wall performance (provided by Tangible Interaction) demonstration.
We are super grateful and happy that the art show party exceeded our expectations but more importantly our friends at adidas were extremely happy with how it all turned out.
We will share more press clippings here as we get them.
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October 2010
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
i'm becoming a monster, just like you
after it all you'll try to break me too
falling forever, chasing dreams
i brought you to life so i can hear you scream
Polaroids are real, tangible, immediate. To a small child watching them develop, they are magic.
Polaroids are unmistakable and instantaneously recognizable. "Ah, that's a Polaroid..."
The Greeks has encaustics (pigmented wax), and many artists today still work in encaustic The Romans had fresco, a difficult and unwieldy medium that is still available should someone want to use it. Silverpoint, lithography, drypoint; all still options for visual artists. Sculpture, weaving, furniture, and so on... every craft and art can still be executed in the media that has been available to its artisans for centuries.
Then there is photography. Newton & Windsor goes out of business, painters can always purchase another brand of oil or acrylic. Sculptors will never run out of things to carve, weld together, or otherwise manipulate. Photographers are not so lucky.
The fate of all photographic media - the very tools on which a photographer's means of expression depend - is decided entirely by the corporations that manufacture said media. Once production of a media is halted, the form of artist expression that depends on that media, dies forever.
Finally, Polaroids existed before I was born and I cannot bear the thought that I might outlive this fantastic medium.
That is simply not fair.
DALIAN/CHINA, 15SEP11 - Shinichi Takemura presents his Tangible Earth -- the world's first digital globe -- to visualize the impact of natural disasters on our planet and the crucial need for emergency preparedness at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China, September 15, 2011.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Qilai Shen
The exhibition shows through fourteen interactive stations that the fate of man is tied together with the fate of the seabirds along the coast of Norway.
In short; The fact that our birds, our old way of life and our climate are threatened are intertwined, and they all result from our globalized way of life.
When designing the exhibition the goal was to, by provocative and evocative installations, motivate people to action rather than overload them with information or preach to them with morals. The focus was on interactivity rather than on a passive intake of information.
The installations are quite unique where tangibility plays a key role and adds to the playfulness of the experience, but we also used Kinect motion tracking for a “full body interaction” when needed.
Together this creates a meaningful experience where guests are involved to be co-creators through multiple interactions.
The exhibition was designed by Gagarin and Batteriid Architects aſter winning a 1 prize in a competition for the project.
NHTSA Administrator David Strickland says “Today’s numbers reflect the tangible benefits of record seat belt use and strong anti-drunk driving enforcement campaigns.”
Photo Courtesy of NHTSA
U.S. highway deaths fell to 33,808 for 2009 -- the lowest number since 1950.
The record-breaking decline in traffic fatalities occurred even while estimated vehicle miles traveled in 2009 increased by 0.2 percent over 2008 levels.
In PA, total fatalities were 1,256 in 2009, compared with 1,468 in 2008.
Alcohol-related fatalities were 406 in 2009, compared with 499 in 2008.
To see a chart on a state by state basis, visit:
www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811363.pdf
and scroll down to Table #8.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released the updated 2009 fatality and injury data in a press release September 9.
According to the press release:
2009 saw the lowest fatality and injury rates ever recorded: 1.13 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2009, compared to 1.26 deaths for 2008.
Fatalities declined in all categories of vehicles including motorcycles, which saw fatalities fall by 850 from 2008, breaking an 11-year cycle of annual increases.
“At the Department of Transportation, we are laser-focused on our top priority: safety,” said Secretary LaHood. “Today’s announcement shows that America’s roads are the safest they’ve ever been. But they must be safer. And we will not rest until they are.”
As part of the Department’s campaign to reduce traffic fatalities, Secretary LaHood is holding a National Distracted Driving Summit this week in Washington, D.C. The Secretary is bringing together leading transportation officials, safety advocates, law enforcement, industry representatives, researchers and victims affected by distraction-related crashes to address challenges and identify opportunities for national anti-distracted driving efforts. This follows the first summit Secretary LaHood held in the Fall of 2009 that sparked a national conversation about texting and talking on cell phones while driving.
According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study based on 2006 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for those between the ages of 3 and 34.
In addition to the record-breaking drop in fatalities, the number of people injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2009 declined for a 10th straight year in a row, falling an estimated 5.5 percent from 2008, according to NHTSA data released.
Alcohol impaired driving fatalities declined by 7.4 percent in 2009 – 10,839 compared to 11,711 reported in 2008. Overall, 33 states and Puerto Rico experienced a decline in the number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in 2009 compared to 2008.
“Today’s numbers reflect the tangible benefits of record seat belt use and strong anti-drunk driving enforcement campaigns,” said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland. “But we are still losing more than 30,000 lives a year on our highways, and about a third of these involve drunk driving. We will continue to work with our state partners to strictly enforce both seat belt use and anti-drunk driving laws across this nation, every day and every night.”
Forty-one states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico all had reductions in fatalities, led by Florida (with 422 fewer fatalities) and Texas (with 405 fewer fatalities).
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