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Moodstream video-music-photo mashup
The world's largest stock imagery company, Getty Images, released a new mashup that leans on the company's vast stock image and audio assets. The flash app called Moodstream draws on Getty's photo, video, and audio collections to create what the company calls a "powerful brainstorming tool designed to take you in inspiring, unexpected directions." The mashup debuted at the Webby Award Film and Video Awards after party in New York.
Moodstream adjusts its output based on settings users input via sliders that describe their state of mind. Happy to Sad, Humorous to Serious, etc. Users can also control the type of transitions between image assets, the amount of color vs. black and white imagery, and the type of music. The app comes with 6 preset moods as well. Once you've entered your mood settings, the application delivers a steady stream of video clips and still images set to short snippets of music.
If you see a picture or hear some music you like, you can add it to your "moodboard" and get additional information on purchasing it from Getty's library. That's a smart move that ties some brand and product marketing into an otherwise fun mashup.
Rick Webb, of the Barbarian Group, who created Moodstream, calls it a concepting tool. The modern version of the fireplace. An interactive art piece. TV for the future. The world's largest stock imagery company, Getty Images, released a new mashup that leans on the company's vast stock image and audio ... more -
White Glove Tracking
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). On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televis... more -
Stats for one-hit wonders and pop longevity 1957-present
Longevity of a Pop Song
One of the trickier questions I've been trying to visualize is how long pop songs are staying on the charts relative to the past. Are they staying on the charts longer than in the past?
In the chart below, I plotted the total number of weeks charted for all 23,924 songs that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1957 to earlier this year. (In other words, a little dot on the "60" line means there was a song released that week that stayed on the Hot 100 chart for 60 weeks.) Longevity of a Pop Song ... more -
Where do all the neurotics live?
Psychologists have shown that human personalities can be classified along five key dimensions: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience. And each of these dimensions has been found to affect key life outcomes from life expectancy and divorce to political ideology, job choices and performance, and innovation and creativity.
What's more, it turns out these personality types are not spread evenly across the country. They cluster. And how they cluster tells us much: What city someone might want to move to, the broader character of regions, and even the creative and economic futures of broad swaths of the nation.
Drawing on a database of hundreds of thousands of individual personality surveys compiled by psychologists Jason Rentfrow, Sam Gosling, and Jeff Porter, the team was able to map the distribution of personality types across the United States. The result is a fascinating new way of looking at the country's terrain. Psychologists have shown that human personalities can be classified along five key dimensions: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extro... more -
The best of the best on political networks
This website collects (among many topics) the international cream of the crop in terms of political networks. Check out why political discussions in France and Japan look so different from the US through maps of the respective blogospheres; or look at how US Senator voting patterns tell us a whole lot about McCains tough road ahead... among many other fascinating projects! What do you think about these studies? This website collects (among many topics) the international cream of the crop in terms of political networks. Check out why political ... more
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Don't blink or you'll miss Current.com
The previous 500 items from Current.com (as of about a week ago) edited into about a minute of video by a little computer program. Images stay up on screen longer based on comments and voting. The previous 500 items from Current.com (as of about a week ago) edited into about a minute of video by a little computer program. Ima... more
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21 (eco)visualizations for energy consumption awareness
Data Visualization blog Flowing Data presents 21 eye-catchingly educational tools - from websites to plug-in power meters - that help us better understand our impact on the ecosystem.
Data Visualization blog Flowing Data presents 21 eye-catchingly educational tools - from websites to plug-in power meters - that help ... more -
Artist tracks the way we use language
"WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness.
The goal is for the user to feel embedded in the language, sifting through words like an archaeologist through sand, awaiting the unexpected find. Observing closely ranked words tells us a great deal about our culture. For instance, “God” is one word from “began”, two words from “start”, and six words from “war”. Another sequence is "america ensure oil opportunity".
"WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in... more -
Facebook graphs speech of the masses
A new feature on Facebook dubbed "Lexicon" allows you to chart the occurrence of words over time by looking at text found in the site's message board posts. Facebook offers such suggested searches as "midterm, final" or "yankees, red sox". The crack-ups at Valleywag suggest "pregnant, tequila". Try it yourself: http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/ A new feature on Facebook dubbed "Lexicon" allows you to chart the occurrence of words over time by looking at text found in the site'... more
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You're all going to die, but how?
Some interesting stats presented in a nice, eye-catching way on the odds of dying from various causes.
I call shotgun on 'space accident'! Some interesting stats presented in a nice, eye-catching way on the odds of dying from various causes. ... more -
The Best of Graphic Data Porn
The web is all about data these days. When interacting with data, often less design is more. (see Google.com) BUT, that doesnt mean that its not fun to turn some graphic designers loose on a mountain of data and see what badass visualizations can come flowing out.
Here's an article summarizing the best online tools for data visualization. Suh-weeeeet! The web is all about data these days. When interacting with data, often less design is more. (see Google.com) BUT, that doesnt mean... more -
Fundrace -- Everyone Knows Your Policital Contributions
It's kinda creep but also pretty great that you can search by name or address to see which presidential candidates your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, and celebrities are contributing to. Or just browse by city and see how much people are giving and to whom. It's kinda creep but also pretty great that you can search by name or address to see which presidential candidates your friends, famil... more
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smashupaliciousrandomness, mis ing pi ces, etc
scientolgst LOL cats responz ..an sum otherr stuff girls, dancin cats, party etc.
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Who has nuclear weapons?
Beautiful infographic movie from Good Magazine -- visually explaining who has nuclear weapons and what would happen if one hit the Empire State Building. Beautiful infographic movie from Good Magazine -- visually explaining who has nuclear weapons and what would happen if one hit the Emp... more
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Presidential Watch: Political Blogosphere
Map of the political blogosphere detailing what the Internet has to say about the 2008 US presidential elections.
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Youtube Video Bubbles Visualization
Just noticed a related-video visualization on youtube when you go to full-screen mode. Is this new?
Take any video to full screen and click the little molecule-looking thing in the bottom left. Anybody find this useful or interesting at all? Once all those bubbles start opening up and the screen starts moving, i found it pretty disorienting. Just noticed a related-video visualization on youtube when you go to full-screen mode. Is this new? ... more -
View 'current.com' as a Graph
In an odd and interesting way, there is a web site at 'aharef.info' that will break down any URL into a graph. Watch Current expand .. In an odd and interesting way, there is a web site at 'aharef.info' that will break down any URL into a graph. Watch Current expand ..... more
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Email Map
Project Description:
This Email Map, created by Christopher Baker, is a piece of custom designed software capable of rendering the relationships between Christopher and individuals in his address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in his email archive. The intensity of the relationship is determined by the intensity of the line. The tool allows one to explore different relational groupings and periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs and flows in various relationships. In this way, this tool is a veritable self-portrait, a reflection of Christopher's associations and a way to locate himself at various points in history.
As the author explains: "Email became an integral part of my life in 1998. Like many people, I have archived all of my email with the hope of someday revisiting my past. I am interested in revealing the innumerable relationships between me, my schoolmates, work-mates, friends and family. This could not readily be accomplished by reading each of my 60,000 emails one-by-one".
This project can be viewed as a large scale static print (40"x40" archival inkjet) or as an up-to-date dynamic visualization. The interactive program is written in Java and uses Processsing, MySQL and various other libraries. The software includes a custom IMAP email client and a VCF address book parser, which enables the inclusion of VCard photos. This particular visualization strategy was influenced by similar circular relational structures such as CAIDA, SCHEMABALL, GNOM, etc. Much of my initial email visualization research was influenced and inspired by the work of Judith Donath's Sociable Media Group at MIT - particularly the work of Fernanda Viegas. Project Description: ... more -
James Spahr
"Working with log data from webservers, I wrote software that looked at the referrer data and created a site tree. This map of the site is interesting because it is formed by how the users travel through the site. It is the aggregate view of how the user base views the hierarchy of the website." "Working with log data from webservers, I wrote software that looked at the referrer data and created a site tree. This map of the sit... more
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