design and the elastic mind
we made sure to get to new york before design and the elastic mind closed… some of our favorite things:
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technological dreams series: no 1, robots (robots have specific personality traits, for example, the black cone is nervous and curious, and will roll to face the person entering the room and examine them with myriad eyes)
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this also gets a vote from memo… monster shadows (a projection that uses shadows to materialize monsters!) was one of the more popular (and hard to get a peek at) parts of the exhibit
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a really nice visualization study/piece : Architecture and Justice from the Million Dollar Blocks project.
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I saw this in action at sxsw: flight paths into and out of the US in a 24 hour period (condensed into a minute)
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