Rahul Sen: Future-Sense » video http://www.future-sense.net Thoughts, ramblings and experiments in making sense of a complex Future Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:11:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 We’re (Cyborgs) disappearing into our Devices http://www.future-sense.net/2011/08/31/were-cyborgs-disappearing-into-our-devices/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/08/31/were-cyborgs-disappearing-into-our-devices/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:26:05 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=748 Continue reading →]]> 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 Story of Stuff Project was created by Annie Leonard to leverage and extend the film’s impact. We amplify public discourse on a series of environmental, social and economic concerns and facilitate the growing Story of Stuff community’s involvement in strategic efforts to build a more sustainable and just world. Our on-line community includes over 150,000 activists and we partner with hundreds of environmental and social justice organizations worldwide to create and distribute our films, curricula and other content.

Probably old news to most design colleagues, but I thought I’d post it on the blog for keepsakes.

Link here.

]]> http://www.future-sense.net/2010/08/20/the-story-of-stuff/feed/ 0 BERG (London) and Bonnier’s conceptual take on the Digital Magazine experience. http://www.future-sense.net/2009/12/17/berg-london-and-bonniers-conceptual-take-on-the-digital-magazine-experience/ http://www.future-sense.net/2009/12/17/berg-london-and-bonniers-conceptual-take-on-the-digital-magazine-experience/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:45:40 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=239 Continue reading →]]> I am always rendered speechless by the sheer beauty of BERG (London) work combined with the visual brilliance of Timo Arnall. I dont really know the intricacies of who were involved in the project, but it seems like they had several different teams collaborating on this project. What struck me most about their video was the high quality of the production and the simplicity with which an idea had been communicated. It’s really inspiring to see!

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Excerpts from the BERG blog:

We’ve been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles.

Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’s best about magazines with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010?

and then later

The design has an eye to how paper magazines can re-use their editorial work without having to drastically change their workflow or add new teams. Maybe if the form is clear enough then every mag, no matter how niche, can look gorgeous, be super easy to understand, and have a great reading experience. We hope so. That gets tested in the next stage, and rolled into everything learned from this, and feedback from the world at large! Join the discussion at the Bonnier R&D Beta Lab.

Recently there have been digital magazine prototypes by Sports Illustrated, and by Wired. It’s fascinating to see the best features of all of these.

I especially love the idea about rubbing and ‘heating’ up content to make things active. As mentioned in their blog, they let the Web be the Web and focus their exploration more on the subtle joys of reading a magazine in the digital realm.

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(Image courtesy: BERG London blog)

I’ve been following alot of the projects about digital reading recently and found this concept to be among the better ones by miles.

I aspire to reach near such levels of clarity, honesty and beauty with my work someday.

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