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White Glove Tracking

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On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt (listed below) is the culmination of data collected. It is released here for all to download and use as an input into any digital system. Just as the data was gathered collectively it is our hope that it will be visualized collectively. Please email links to your apps, video, source code, and/or screen shots to evan[at]eyebeam[dot]org. Work will be exhibited in an online gallery and depending on popularity and interest potentially in a forthcoming physical gallery exhibition as well. Huge thanks to everyone that contributed to the data collection.


For more information please check out the top data contributers, the about page, and the original data entry applet (no longer in use). To view visualizations of this data check out the gallery. Example source code for getting started can be downloaded below (available as Processing and Open Frameworks projects).
tpalmer

3 responses // White Glove Tracking

  • Giant glove is my favorite (and eerily appropriate; Mickey Mouse, Neverland, frozen childhood, etc. etc.). Tho' the height = speed is most interesting; letting the flourish affect the very source.
    Chloe
  • I was wondering whatever happened to this. I remember doing a few frames here and there for it, and thinking that it was an interesting way for someone to get a lot of people to help on a rather tedious project. If we could only figure out a way to massively distribute something like rotoscoping....
    mhahn
  • ...or data entry.
    saskia

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