We Feel Fine – scans newly posted blog entries searching for occurances of “I feel” or “I’m feeling” and tries to determine some demographic info about them, like their age, location, what the weather is where they are. About 20,000 sentences a day get put into it. He has some awesome visualizations for these, one […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
Golan Levin
December 2, 2007 – 4:32 pm
Experiements at the Intersection of Art, Technology, and Nonverbal Communication. Golan’s site is Flong.com. (I like that it rhymes.) “From the perspective of a typical computer, a human is a brain with one finger. – Joy Mountford So much of the life is conducted through the mouse. The mouse has to be the narrowest straw […]
Jim Cox and Michael Fry
December 2, 2007 – 4:30 pm
They showed some cartoons from RingTales.com, pretty funny. Mike does a cartoon called Over the Hedge. It was the first he had seen that had an email address. He sent him an email and said “Can we make a movie?” The movie came out last year from Dreamworks, 10 years later. There must be an […]
Ken Librecht – The Secret Life of a Snowflake
December 2, 2007 – 4:29 pm
He does snowflake photograph, a camera attached to a microscope. He lives in Southern California, so he has to travel a bit. Northern Ontoria is his favorite. He lets snow fall on the cardboard, then looks for one that looks nice. He then picks it up with it up a paintbrush, and then put it […]
Donald Jackson
December 2, 2007 – 4:27 pm
Most museums wouldn’t think of inviting a living calligrapher, they only want the dead ones. He has two more years left on the bible he’s working on. He has spent his whole life doing something that most people don’t think that they want. But people realyl do, when htey find something that they need to […]
Nathan Myhrvold – Why do we think things are cute?
December 2, 2007 – 2:59 pm
While in the Falkland Islands he saw some birds and started wondering why we think things are cute or not. Human children have many features of cuteness. Head large for body Rounded features Eyes too large for head Long eye lashes Wide set eyes Dilated pupils Small nose Large hadnds with stubby fingers Fuzzy or […]
Gran Tourismo
December 2, 2007 – 2:00 pm
Miguel Angel Corzo is giving a background on the music here at the conference. All of the music is from students at his conservatory, the Colburn Institute. He thought it’d be a good start to talk about one piece, called Gran Tourismo. In his view these conferences really are about a sense of discovery, a […]
Kevin Kelly and Eduardo Santana
December 2, 2007 – 1:50 pm
Eduardo Santana on the left is from Guadalajara, he’s a biologist (with a penchant for birds) and he’s currently working on creating a new natural science museum. He’s here to gain perspective to help him shape the museum, which they hope to launch in 2011. Kevin Kelly is a speaker at EG. He has a […]
Different Strokes Cheatsheat
December 2, 2007 – 11:46 am
The first session today is going to be called “Different Strokes.” You can of course read the bios of all the presenters, but here are a few links and recent news about each that hopefully give a little more background. Richard Saul Wurnman — home page, Wikipedia entry, his 81 books. (One of which I […]
The Entertainment Gathering 