{"id":246,"date":"2007-07-03T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T22:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2007-07-03T17:46:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T22:46:06","slug":"play-doh-as-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/play-doh-as-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Play-doh as Interface?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/playdoh.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>One of my designers handed me a mind altering book the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Analog-Digital-Out-Brendan-Interaction\/dp\/0321429168\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-2830225-1659245?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1183501320&#038;sr=8-1\">Analog In, Digital Out:  Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design<\/a>.  This boy is a twisted, brilliant, genius, my favorite kind ;)  He uses the most amazing things as input devices for his systems.  Can you imagine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nUsing Play-Doh as a user interface to control the speed of a video<\/li>\n<li>Creating sonic paintings based on the sound-frequence of jazz music<\/li>\n<li>Transforming the movement of people walking on a crowded street into visual creations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How does this guy turn science fantasy into reality?  He believes: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Everything is number.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;There is all this invisible potential being generated in public spaces by people going about their everyday lives.  It&#8217;s all just input waiting for you to manipulate into some kind of fascinating output.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I was captivated by his Snow Globe Project.  You see, Brendan buys snow globes as souvenirs from his travels and he had this crazy idea.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be cool, if when you picked up and shook one of his snow globes, the digital photos that Brendan took on that particular trip would be displayed on his Mac.  Using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makingthings.com\/\">Making Things<\/a> Controller Kit, Brendan soon turned his Snow Globes into triggers for a walk through his digital scrapbook. <\/p>\n<p>Read this book and forever change your perception of what a user interface can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/playdoh.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>One of my designers handed me a mind altering book the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Analog-Digital-Out-Brendan-Interaction\/dp\/0321429168\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-2830225-1659245?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1183501320&#038;sr=8-1\">Analog In, Digital Out:  Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design<\/a>.  This boy is a twisted, brilliant, genius, my favorite kind ;)  He uses the most amazing things as input devices for his systems.  Can you imagine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nUsing Play-Doh as a user interface to control the speed of a video<\/li>\n<li>Creating sonic paintings based on the sound-frequence of jazz music<\/li>\n<li>Transforming the movement of people walking on a crowded street into visual creations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}