We’re (Cyborgs) disappearing into our Devices

Posted on August 31, 2011 by rahulsen79

Watching Amber Case’s presentation (‘From Solid to Liquid to Air’) about us ‘cyborgs’ at Media Evolution 2011 in Malmö, I went back to look at a video-skit I’d done for a project 2.5 years ago while still at UID.

The video was hacked together very quickly in a few hours, with my friends as actors and scenographers (a big thank you to all, if you’re reading!) but what struck me about it now was how much closer to the dream/myth/promise of augmented reality we are today. And where we’ll be in a few years from now.

I was reading ‘Talk to Me’, the exhibition put together at the MoMA by Paola Antonelli (another amazing person I was honored to meet at the conference) and I was astonished by the writing and thought of Kevin Slavin about why we needed to keep our reality untouched and intact.

More on that later, but this video needed a bit of dusting, and now I’m smiling.

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The future on my fridge.

Posted on January 7, 2011 by rahulsen79

Got this as an amazing Christmas gift from Dennis and Chrystyna!

I have a refrigerator. It’s not ordinary one. It has my app-board attached to it. I move them around to the different places where I need them and use them. I can dispose of them, synch them together (by touching), and a lot of other cool things. Someday in the near future…

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Ra.One – India’s first Sci-fi film after Enthiran

Posted on January 3, 2011 by rahulsen79

Anything Hollywood does, Bollywood ‘adapts’ and does even better!

We still don’t know much about the film, except that SRK’s character is called G.One, and he’s some sort of superhero — and above is our first look at him.

A bit of backstory: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) was set to star inEnthiran, the killer-robot movie from director S. Shankar, but left that project over creative differences. But then Enthiran turned out to be a megahit — and there was a lot of talk that the story and action set-pieces in Ra.One were way too similar toEnthiran. So Ra.One has had to be retooled to make it different, and more time is being spent in post-production beefing up the effects, delaying the release from the first half of 2011 to around October.

Link here.

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MultiTouch in cinema

Posted on December 6, 2010 by rahulsen79

Been working lots lately on multi-touch technology (both on MS Surface, iPhones and other projects).

Just thought it would be interesting to jot down my list of favorite multi-touch technology visions as seen on film.

Minority Report (duh!)

James Bond Quantum of Solace –

District 9

Iron Man 2

Avatar

The Island (thx Mattias!)

More?

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I’m Here – The Movie

Posted on August 28, 2010 by rahulsen79

Some golden nuggets from ‘I’m Here’, a short story about love in an Absolut World by Spike Jonze.

Man: “What do you mean? We (robots) cant dream!”

Woman: “Of course you can, you just make it up!”

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Man: “…This dream was easily the best dream in the history of all dreams”.

A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to a the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and love begin to fall apart, he discovers he has a lot to give. This short film proves that ordinary is no place to be. (via IMDB)

View the trailer here…

I was reading some essays on Design Fiction by Julian Bleecker recently and was especially struck by this film after reading it. ‘I’m Here’ is such a perfectly imagined and made work of design-fiction in the sense that it makes you completely believe in the World which is created here. Not only are the ‘props’ and costumes entirely authentic, the fact that its set in the Almost Present makes the impact breathtakingly moving and simple. It focuses on human/robotic emotion while keeping the work of design very secondary.