This street interview discusses panhandling and street entertainment and legality behind it. Plus, there’s some singing for your enjoyment. I went out with a camera to do consumer insight interviews for an intern project, but took a tangent talking with Eric about singing in the street.
Archive for July, 2008
Singing in the Street
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Visualization of Information: PicLens, Digg Labs and Twitter/Flickrvision
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Here are three applications that allow you to search visually news, status updates, videos, pictures etc. in cool new ways.
PicLens lets you search for photos and videos in 3-D and in full screen. This web browser add-on makes it way easier to search for things with out paging through a website and its also makes it much more fun. Its like apple’s coverflow to another dimension. Once you download the add-on a blue box in the upper right corner will light up when a page is viewable with PicLens.
Digg labs web applications organize all the news items on Digg visually. With Digg Stack, the stories are bar graphs that get taller given the amount of Diggs, so you can watch stories grow. Digg Swarm creates circles around stories that get bigger as they are dugg. All of these applications can be accessed online or used as a screensaver.
Twittervision and Flickrvision allow you to see what people are seeing and saying in real time around the world. Using google maps or a 3-D map this program shows you exactly where tweets and photos are coming from. It can get addicting. You can view it on a browser or download the screensaver. They also have a local version that only shows what is going on in your specific area. There is no way I know of to see only my friends on the map and have multiple tweets or photos up at a time. I imagine these programs will get cooler and developed as GPS is becoming more common in cell phones.
Bon Iver In Paris
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Here’s a beautiful video of Bon Iver playing in an apartment in Paris. There’s one HD camera and I love the uncut intimacy it captures. I’ve been listening to Emma, Forever Ago, his most recent release nonstop. The album was recorded in a cabin in Eau Claire, WI during the “spring thaw” hence the name Bon (H)iver meaning good winter in french. It has a recording style and sound unlike anything I’ve heard before. Check it.
Tasty harmonies.
Dancing in 42 Nations
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I wish I made this video. The opportunity to travel all over the world is fun, but also some reason the idea of convincing tons of people to dance for a camera seems even more fun to me. Bringing people together by being goofy, that’s awkwardly beautiful!
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Radiohead’s Re/mix
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Radiohead held a remix competition on their website in the same open mindset as their recent album release for In Rainbows. This late entry takes the remix in a different but fitting direction. Wait through the first part (or fast forward to about 1:30) it gets better.