henry chilcott

Data, beautiful data (iv)

henry chilcott — 2009-10-17T10:56:02+01:00

Amsterdam SMS messages on New Years Eve from Aaron on Vimeo.

2 / 7920000

henry chilcott — 2009-08-22T09:42:38+01:00

I just noticed that if you put 'noticing' into Google you get 7,920,000 results.

This blog is number 2.

Just after the dictionary definition of noticing.

Whoop whoop.

Stunning

henry chilcott — 2009-07-08T13:05:39+01:00

http://thinkingspace.economist.com

Data beautiful data (iii)

henry chilcott — 2009-05-15T11:57:53+01:00

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Albert Einstein

henry chilcott — 2009-04-09T10:29:03+01:00

Hironao Tsuboi’s LED watch.

Life imitates digital

henry chilcott — 2009-04-07T15:42:18+01:00

Every now and then worlds overlap. The chains of context are broken. And the results can be both surprising and brilliant.

The last time I saw this was a little space invasion here

Hat tip

Data, beautiful data (ii)

henry chilcott — 2009-03-31T20:29:42+01:00

Back in August I wrote about how computers, as they get more and more sophisticated, are capable of making seemingly dull data more and more beautiful. Here's another nice example: 24 hours worth of geotagged photos (64,410 photos to be exact) from last Monday - March 23rd.

In this case the data was brought to life by the talented Rev Dan Catt.

Best watched full screen in HD - click on bottom right of video.

Brand owners hold reams and reams of dull consumer data. By re-purposing this data with a bit of imagination, they can create interesting and engaging stuff - even helpful stuff. I'm certain we're going to see more of this in future.

I'm also sure the idea above will appear on our TV screens as an ad for someone like Nokia in a few months time...

Shackleton and Twitter

henry chilcott — 2009-03-24T11:12:21+00:00

For those of us that can't quite decide whether or not Twitter is - in the most part - an inane vanity project, I just read in polar explorer, Ben Saunder's blog that Shackleton had similar thoughts about an entry into his first Antarctic diary, 107 years ago:

"I turned in about 1am. What a ridiculous thing it must seem to other people to read a diary where such a statement as 'I turned in at 1am' appears as if they were interested in the time another fellow mortal at the other end of the world went to bed… Those sort of items are the penalties that one's friends must pay when struggling to gain a little real information in these reams of paper.
- E.H. Shackleton, diary, 14 July 1902A refreshing reminder that though means and technologies change - we are asking the same questions now as we were 100 years ago.

Beautiful piece of film

henry chilcott — 2009-03-17T09:29:56+00:00

the east side of Los Angeles on a sunny day (tilt-shift & time-lapse) from clark vogeler on Vimeo.

hat tip

Twittery goodness

henry chilcott — 2009-01-28T11:04:48+00:00

Stephen Fry has 80,000 followers and growing on Twitter. He loves it - posting tweets of his humorously eccentric existence all day long. I recommend you join the tribe.

Anyway, just a few moments ago I noticed that someone had asked him to post his sponsorship link (to raise money for his poorly son). Mr Fry promptly did this with the simple comment 'you might consider sponsoring this fellow' and with a click, this sponsorship message went out to over 80,000 people (with Stephen Fry's endorsement). What a nice chap. I've decided I'm going to sponsor James Morely-Smith myself and watch how this lovely tale of human kindness and digital possibilities plays out.

Sponsor James here.