Rahul Sen: Future-Sense » New technologies

We’re (Cyborgs) disappearing into our Devices

rahulsen79 — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:26:05 +0000

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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IxD Bauhaus at Microsoft Sweden

rahulsen79 — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:27:12 +0000

I spoke at Microsoft Sweden, a couple of days after returning from IxD Bauhaus in Seattle. My talk was to an audience consisting primarily of developers within the Microsoft community. I tried to infuse a presentation we did about Windows phone at Ergonomidesign with my talk in Seattle. The result is here for you to see.

Direct link here.

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A first peek at Windows 8

rahulsen79 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:57:29 +0000

Very excited to see the Windows 8 UI. It’s using a Metro-inspired look and feel which is long overdue and will definitely change how we use PC’s.

Making the intangible, tangible.

rahulsen79 — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:45:19 +0000

“The Institute for Digital Biology researches next steps in the evolution of the internet, where websites and services develop into living creatures.”
This scenario lives in the mind of Walewijn den Boer, graduated from KABK in 2010.

During the exhibition, visitors were able to feed a colony of microscopical pop-up creatures, save Chinese websites from a pageview-shortage, preserve an Amazone tribe from extinction by subscribing to its homepage and view a short documentary on how the living internet established itself

via http://www.nextnature.net/2011/01/the-institute-for-digital-biology/

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Light Lovin – my little stop motion experiment with a friend.

rahulsen79 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:08:15 +0000

‘Light Lovin’ from Rahul Sen on Vimeo.

A short film to spread light and love in the World.
My first stop-motion experiment done in collaboration with Lena Edman (while she was with us at Ergonomidesign).
We were a bit exhausted with the ‘why’ and ‘constraints of client work, and decided to just do something for fun.
Hopefully this turned out alright!

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Bill Buxton: ‘NUI – What’s in a Name?’

rahulsen79 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:14:23 +0000

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

rahulsen79 — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:34:05 +0000

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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