Tons of trucks! (@ Bordin Park) [pic]:

"Livehoods offer a new way to conceptualize the dynamics, structure, and character of a city by analyzing the social media its residents generate. By looking at people's checkin patterns at places across the city, we create a mapping of the different dynamic areas that comprise it. Each Livehood tells a different story of the people and places that shape it."

"A Kanban is a simple project management tool. It enables you to visualize your workflow, limit your work in progress, and optimize your “cycle time” (the time it takes to complete one item.) For software development projects, this is a big deal. It helps you find bottlenecks and push quality upstream. Ultimately, you shape your process to flow more value as efficiently and effectively as possible, “just in time.” Another way to think of it is, your users “pull” value through your development chain, while you streamline your process."

"ZeroN is a new physical/digital interaction element that can be levitated and moved freely by computer in a three dimensional space. Both the computer and people can move the ZeroN simultaneously. In doing so, people and computers can physically interact with one another in 3D space. Users are invited to place or move the ZeroN just as they can place any other objects on surfaces. Once levitated, ZeroN's behavior can be digitally programmed. For example, users can place the sun above physical objects to cast digital shadows, or place a planet that will start revolving based on simulated physical conditions.

ZeroN can remember how it has been moved. Physical motions of people can be collected in this medium to preserve and play them back indefinitely. When the users move and release the ZeroN, it continues to float and starts to move along the same path."

Carl Craig @ Movement Electronic Music Festival 2012

At Movement Electronic Music Festival 2012 (1 Hart Plaza, Detroit)

Heritage Days! (@ Rochester Municipal Park w/ 4 others) [pic]:

"Our idea is to encourage it by giving kids a place online to show it off, so family, friends and grandparents can see it and easily respond. Recognition makes a kid feel great, and motivates them to keep going. We want them to keep making, and by doing so learn new skills, use technology constructively, begin a lifelong adventure of curiosity, and hopefully spend time offline, too."

"Hooper Selection is a method of cursor movement and text selection for tablet devices, designed with the goal of making text editing more efficient. It consists of a set of gestures the user can make over the system keyboard to adjust the cursor or selection position. Its convenience stems from the fact that it allows the user to navigate around the text without having to move their hands away from the keyboard area or incur tap-and-hold delays when beginning a cursor drag action."

Gallery of responsive web designs.

"It's cheap but degrading to reuse content and design across diverging media forms like print vs. online or desktop vs. mobile. Superior UX requires tight platform integration."

"The Social Computing Symposium 2012 focuses on the changing nature of "the public,” and is held on the campus of New York University in the Interactive Telecommunication Program space on January 12-13. Since 2004, Microsoft Research (MSR) has sponsored an annual symposium on social computing that has brought together academic and industry researchers, social startups, writers, and influential commentators in order to open new lines of communication among previously disconnected groups."

Pancakes for Mother's Day

Lunch with the Edict crew. (@ Lipuma's Coney Island)

SoundWave, a technique that leverages the speaker and microphone already embedded in most commodity devices to sense in-air gestures around the device. To do this, we generate an inaudible tone, which gets frequency-shifted when it reflects off moving objects like the hand. We measure this shift with the microphone to infer various gestures.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images.

Thomas the train! (@ Greenfield Village w/ 4 others)

The Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools are a set of command line interfaces that allow you to easily build solutions leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk without writing a line of code.

The grantBonus command issues a payment from your account to a Worker. This payment happens separately from the reward you pay to the Worker when you approve the Worker's assignment. You must have enough funds in your account to pay for the bonus.

@philipzott After that, I think I'll be washing my organic apples. Chlorpyrifos is nasty stuff!

Congrats @kottie on the new exhibition at the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography!

Dumpsters as Giant Pinhole Cameras via @kottie

SuperMoon sinks Titanic? Wow!@CharlieCurve: In: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Supermoon. Sat: via @ScottyJWS

Warm weather! (@ Dairy Queen)

=MOD(ROW()-12,3*2)+1<=3

RT @kottie: Video: “If anything is the antithesis of Instagram it’s Mary Ellen Mark carrying a 400 pound Polaroid 20×24... ...

How would you get a dead rapper to appear onstage? Use a theater trick used at Disney: #RealHologramsAren't2D

1st time here! (@ Smackwater Jack's - Neighborhood Café) [pic]:

Super Morrissey Bros: "This Charming Man" by The Smiths done in the style of Super Mario Bros #OnlyOnTheInternet

Getting used to shooting with the Lytro... no earth shattering photos yet, but give me time...

Warm cookies @edict...

"Brogrammer"?? Really, @USAToday?

"Good mobile user experience requires a different design than what's needed to satisfy desktop users. Two designs, two sites, and cross-linking to make it all work."

Down the stairs...

Flat pack polypropylene... awesome!

Excellent #TED presentation by book cover designer Chip Kidd (@chipkidd):

I'm at Chicago Children's Museum (Chicago, IL) w/ 4 others [pic]:

Kids braved the 2 hour line! (@ John G Shedd Aquarium w/ 24 others) [pic]:

An extra shot for the long drive ahead... (@ Caribou Coffee)

Current Trends on platforms, incredible growth and actual consumer usage: The Future of Mobile

Only two once...

Tintype, also melainotype and ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a sheet of iron metal that is blackened by painting, lacquering or enamelling and is used as a support for a collodion photographic emulsion.

Photographers usually worked outside at fairs, carnivals etc. and as the support of the tintype (there is no actual tin used) is resilient and does not need drying, photographs can be produced only a few minutes after the picture is taken.

An ambrotype uses the same process and methods on a sheet of glass that is mounted in a case with a black backing so the underexposed negative image appears as a positive. Tintypes did not need mounting in a case and were not as delicate as photographs that used glass for the support

Just posted a photo @ Cranbrook Institute Of Science

It's all about gathering light these days... "A camera that peers around corners" (via @MITNews)

Virtual Friday! (@ Paint Creek Tavern w/ 2 others)

"Muse lets you look back and reflect on your past by allowing you to quickly browse a large email archive and helps you spot possibly interesting messages and patterns in the archive"

Seems to support old scanners where no oem drivers exist.

Super busy! (@ Dairy Queen w/ 2 others)

RT @ignitedetroit: Announcing Ignite Detroit #3 Presented by MotorCity Casino Hotel -

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization tool providing highly optimized performance and usability without needless user interface complexity.

"A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc."

"Scribus is an open-source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows. Scribus supports professional features, such as CMYK color, spot color, separations, ICC color and robust commercial grade PDF."

a set of plans and a kit for making an Internet of Things Camera -- a tiny, standalone gizmo that turns an Arduino, a webcam's guts and an EyeFi card into a device that can wirelessly transmit photos to a computer, with complimentary software for processing, uploading and filing the images it captures.

"The jQuery Print Preview plugin is designed to provide visitors with a preview of the print version of a web site. Unlike traditional print previews this plugin brings in all content and print styles within a modal window."

What is Prism Skylabs?

Prism Skylabs brings physical spaces online, creating new places for people and businesses to understand and engage each other. The company is changing how businesses use video and how consumers experience physical spaces online. In the longer term, Prism Skylabs’ goal is to transform the world’s multi-hundred billion-dollar camera network investments into a platform for online-to-offline commerce that creates new revenue streams and new opportunities for businesses to engage customers.

How does it work?

At a high level, Prism Skylabs combines streams of washed-out and noisy video into gorgeous, photo-like images using a variety of processing techniques designed to enhance resolution, dynamic range and overall image quality. Additionally, the company uses unique video synthesis and cloud storage technologies to significantly reduce the data footprint while also increasing informational content.

"Geoloqi is a powerful platform for real-time location, messaging, and analytics."

New VCMG (Vince Clark & Martin Gore) album came a day early!

OpenProposals is a web application for collecting presentation proposals for conferences and events. It started out as the Ignite Portland proposals site but has since been reworked as a general-purpose platform that can be restyled and extended for collecting proposals for other events.

Everybody is here! Super long line just to get in! (@ The Detroit Zoo w/ 30 others)

Maple Madness (@ Dinosaur Hill Nature Preserve) [pic]: