Flim Flam : Dom Murphy : Random Bullshit http://flimflam.dommurphy.com Various findings, thoughts and chuckles posterous.com Tue, 22 May 2012 08:48:23 -0700 Dom likes... http://flimflam.dommurphy.com/dom-likes-53175 http://flimflam.dommurphy.com/dom-likes-53175 "Gorgeous site RT @relmone Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from Google web fonts [thanks to @briansage] http://t.co/k8pWf6A4" via Twitter by http://twitter.com/mkruzeniski

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Turntable
Teenage Engineering make quirky, cool audio products. I hope this turntable is real. I want. Plz.

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Lego_lifeofgeorge

*SIGH*

That is a *sigh* full of warmth and soft focus. Born from a love for all things Lego, pixelated, physical, virtual and tech; how can I not fail to want this. It's like Lego have tapped into my brain and read my mind.

I would love to see share functionality added to the app so puzzles could be swapped with others (PushMo stylee)… actually no fuck it. Keep in local. Keep it face to face. To hell with connectivity just this once. Kinda.

Go check it out…

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Obliteration-2-yayoi-kusama Obliteration-4-yayoi-kusama Obliteration-5-yayoi-kusama Obliteration-8-yayoi-kusama
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Love this installation. Over the course of a few weeks, thousands of children visiting a space in the Gallery of Modern Art in Australia were invited to leave a small, colourful, sticky mark. The result is wonderfully stunning. This following quote sums the project—and generally the principal of keeping things simple—nicely.

"As with many of Kusama’s installations, the work is disarmingly simple in its elemental composition; however, it brilliantly exploits the framework of its presentation. The white room is gradually obliterated over the course of the exhibition, the space changing measurably with the passage of time as the dots accumulate as a result of thousands and thousands of collaborators."

Find out more over here…

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I've been saying QR codes have a value when used correctly, unfortunately they're mainly just used to pimp URLs which seems completely pointless in today's smartphone landscape.

Pushmo—a game for the 3DS—comes correct. The game gives you tools to make levels and then share them via QR codes. The scanner built into the game reads and loads in the level for you to play. Sure this could have all be handled in game via a huge level browser / rating system but that costs money to build and maintain. This puts the swapping in the hands of the gamers and their own social networks. This is probably why the game only costs $7—an absolute bargin.

If you don't know about Pushmo go peep the trailer. It looks gorgeous in 3D. Probably one of the best puzzlers I've played in a long, long time.

So in this post I'll start to add some of my levels for you to scan and play. What I like about Pushmo is, as you make the levels you don't really know how or if they're solvable. At one point I thought this R2 unit was unsolvable until after 30 mins of pushing & pulling I reached the top. Love it!

 

(PS: Feel free to scan and adapt / update these levels. Pop any links to remixes in the comments section)

R2d2

R2D2 : Tricky

 

Darth_vader

Darth Vader : Simples

 

Chewbacca

Chewbacca : Average

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So this rant on the future of Interaction Design was sent around WK today.

I read it. I thought about it. And then I wrote this…

 

 

This is an interesting article and although I understand the author's reasoning I completely disagree with his opinion.

I agree, we shouldn't limit ourselves and the potential of future interaction principles based on what we already have.

BUT

In his examples he fails to acknowledge that he's criticising all in one devices. These devices are; phones, notepads, newspapers, games, video players and more. A device that is infinite in scope requires an input that is flexible for all purposes. 

A hand opening a can is different to a hand tying a shoelace because, they're completely different objects.

So is the author proposing we should not have consolidated devices? 

If so, I'd take 'pictures under glass' and the loss of sensation over many different objects, tools and interactions. There's a reason why iPhones and iPads have over half a million apps each replicating and replacing real world objects; it's called convenience.

This article doesn't consider convenience, which to me is the unconsidered flaw.

 

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Window

Some dude was spotted on TV wearing this the other day. It wasn't mine, someone's bitten the bear!

Original (screen 3) http://dommurphy.com/#599361/RBMA

Thanks to @moif aka hawkeye.

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