Visual Handgrenade

01. Nicolas Jaar & Maceo Plex - Gravy Train (Nicolas Jaar Remix) [Get Physical Music]
02. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise [Clown & Sunset]
03. Laxx & Farkas - Creature
04. Nicolas Jaar - Don’t Break My Love [Clown & Sunset]
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05. Angelo Badalamenti - Conversation On Twin Peaks [Warner Bros]
06. The Brothers Four - Greenfields [Columbia]
07. Jay-Z - My First Song (Acapella) [Roc-A- Fella]
08. Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood [NONESUCH]
09. Los Ángeles Negros - Tu Y Tu Mirar… Yo Y Mi Cancion [Harmless]
10. LaShun Pace - It’s Me Oh Lord (Acapella Praise) [Shanachie]
11. Jonny Greenwood - Open Spaces [NONESUCH]
12. Pearson Sound - Footloose [Pearson Sound]
13. The Electric Prunes - Holy Are You (There Is No God Edit) [Reprise]
14. Aphex Twin - Ziggomatic 17 [WARP]
15. Keith Jarrett - Tokyo, November 14 (Encore) [ECM Records]
16. My Girl And Me - Always Back To You (feat. Lorraine) [Unknown]
17. Vera November - Last Night Together (You’re Coming Back Edit) [Rough Trade]
18. Nikita Quasim - L’amour L’après Midi [Clown and Sunset]
19. Nikita Quasim - The Way I Felt Today [Clown and Sunset]
20. Feist - Caught A Long Wind [Polydor]
21. Shigeru Umebayashi - Yumeji’s Theme (In The Mood For Love) [In The Mood For Love OST, Higher Octave OmTown]
22. *NSYNC - It Makes Me Ill (Edit) [JIVE]
23. Unknown - Unknown
24. Charles Mingus - Myself When I’m Real [IMPULSE]
25. Bill Callahan - America! [DRAG CITY]
26. The Field - The Little Heart Beats So Fast [Kompakt]
27. Sneaky Sound System - Always By Your Side (Nicolas Jaar Remix) [Modular]
28. Just Friends - Avalanche [Unknown]
29. Pavla + Noura - Don’t Owe Me A Thing [The Prism, Clown and Sunset]
30. Acid Pauli - La Voz Tan Tierna [Clown and Sunset]
31. Igor Wakhevitch - Taddy’s Dream: Ramallah’s Road [Pathé Marconi EMI]
32. Nikita Quasim - Derridu [Unknown]
33. Beyoncé Knowles - 1+1 [Columbia]
34. Anouar Brahem - Vague / E La Nave Va [ECM]
35. Rio Grande - Let’s Groove (Tonight Edit) [Unknown]
36. Gonzales - Manifesto [Sunnyside]
37. The Grass Roots - Let’s Live For Today (Learn To Live Edit) [Dunhill]
38. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Sk Edit) [TAMLA]
39. Man Friday - Real Love (The Paradise Garage Mix) (feat. Larry Levan) [Nite Grooves]
40. DJ Slugo - What That Do [Subterranean Playhouse]
41. Ricardo Villalobos - What You Say Is More Than I Can Say [Playhouse]
42. Untitled - Untitled [Unknown]
43. Nicolas Jaar - The Student [Wolf & Lamb]

Incredible stuff from Floating points on a new 5 track EP ‘Shadows’ with Eglo records pick it up here http://eglo.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/eglo22/Floating_Points_Shadows.html

brilliant… from Stephen Wildish http://stephenwildish.tumblr.com/

Here some notes from a talk i attended in SXSW interactive festival which i thought might be of interest.

South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is commonly referred to as ‘Spring break for geeks’ and is a place to meet, collaborate and network with people who shape the future of interactive technology. Sitting down at a panel or seminar you can rub shoulders with some of the leaders of toady’s online community in a relaxed way that you would never be able to do otherwise. I’ve met some of my heroes out here and it’s incredible to get a chance to chat face to face with them.

Make a Kinection: The Future of Interactive Design
Speakers
Amish Patel (Design Producer Xbox/Microsoft)
Twitter : @amishpatel
Kay Hofmeester (User Experience Lead Microsoft Xbox)
twitter: @kayhof

you can listen to the talk here in full:

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10381

Microsoft Kinect is the technology which is poised to unlock the next generation of digital design and allows us to bridge the gaps between physical and digital.
As Kinect becomes more prevalent, accessible, and smarter as an open source tool we need to look at how this new technology expands our palette of interactive experiences.
The next generation of user experience will be based on human senses, we need to embrace the characteristics of human interaction to harness natural user interaction. The Kinetic today is good for full body immersion but not navigation and precise interaction, the challenge of gaming isn’t relevant to navigation.

There are several inherent challenges with creating ‘natural’ navigation with kinect. The 2D plane we are familiar with from point and click interfaces on the desktop is nearly impossible to recreate in 3D space accurately. To create natural navigational experiences we have to consider gain, fatigue (waving our arms about makes users tired!), and throw out the old languages of point and click interaction.

So, how should we be doing it?

•Look at human gesture properties

•How far can a person reach and what’s comfortable?

•Strength, What part of a human is strong? and what areas are weak.

•Precision, Fingers are precise but not strong, shoulders are strong but not precise

•Endurance, You don’t want to hold up your arm for long periods of time to interact with the menu.

•Joint movement Circles are easy to make with your arm or hand but making straight lines is very difficult due to joint movement.

To create interaction with kinect we must also understand its limitations

•Field of vision

•Occlusion, Kinect only has one ‘eye’ so anything between the user and the movement you are recording will stop the camera from picking up details.

•Resolution, the camera opn a Kinect is not high resolution.

•Detail, How detailed are the interactions we need to see, the further away a user is, the less precision and detail we can record.

•Speed, how fast can a user move?.. can Kinect keep up?

What is a natural user interface?
Human to human interaction is incredibly detailed, and we’re very good at communicating, we study facial expression, eye movement, tone of voice etc to get a deep understanding of the message we’re listening to when we communicate with each other. We’re born communicators, from the moment we’re born we start this communication process. Because of this human interaction is central to understanding that the more senses we use for interaction design, the better we understand the navigation and the more confident we are about our own interaction.

How can we use Kinect to help create natural interaction?
by combining the built in input methods of the kinect system sound, vision, and gesture to create multi modal interfaces rather than just using one at a time for a very shallow interaction experience.

Here’s the official video of Joy Orbison’s remix of Lana del ray’s ‘Video games’  love the understated feel to this and the fact that they called on Joy orbison to do the remix is amazing.  Listened to the Lana Del Ray album the other day… and apart from video games this was a giant musical anti climax. Really thought she was going to be great after seeing her on Jools Holland http://youtu.be/IOP2Yd_jpYQ

http://io9.com/5873372/an-exclusive-look-at-the-making-of-dragon-tattoos-stunning-titles

Great article from iO9 on the making of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo titles.

An app i designed for the Kinsale International Advertising awards for iPhone you can download it here and watch the intro video here [vimeo]

a Facebook app i created recently for BT2 http://www.facebook.com/pages/BT2/380839574576

Opening animation for the BT2 iPad app

An app I designed recently for Brown Thomas Department store for thier BT2 Denim bar called ‘Destination Denim’. There was a big design challenge on this job as it required us to design and code for iPad, iPhone and Android phones, which took into account a largte number of variants in terms of screen sizes, orientation and operating system requirements.  I also created a nice little app intro animation for this which worked out quite well which you can look at here [vimeo]

you can download it in the iTunes store here or for android here