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Three days of the condor

Three days of the condor, by Sydney Pollack

A CIA agent, who’s code name is “Condor”, is suddenly discovering a big plot that he shouldn’t discover. Finally, he reveal all his story to a press newspaper. This film is showing how can a private society can control the world and play with people.

Linked to the film : a book :

Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French) is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard seeking to interrogate the relationship among reality, symbols, and society.

graffitis decode

Audience, or “le public”

The Andience – in french we call it “le public” – is a group of people grouped (in a shared place or not) by the same interest or subject.

At the cinema, you always take your privacy away for a while because everything is shared. You sit next to someone you don’t know, you lagh all together…

Boris Yelnikof, in Whatever works by Woody Allen, is sometimes talking to the audience of the cinema. The other characters in the movie don’t understand and think that he’s talking to himself. He is just explaining that he has the advantage of the “the global vision”… The others are just limited to their lives.

An Idiot Abroad

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The Wilderness Downtown

An interactive HTML5 short created with data and images related to your childhood. Set to Arcade Fire’s song “We Used to Wait,” the experience takes place through choreographed browser windows and utilizes many modern browser features. A collaborative effort with Google Creative Lab and Chris Milk.

The wilderness downtown

We feel fine

Random image from wefeelfine.org. Both taken from blogs, random image and text are combined.

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.

The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 – 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine’s Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.

The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles’ properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.

At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what’s on our blogs, what’s in our hearts, what’s in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.

– Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar
May 2006

Face swapping

This is a technical demo for face swapping technique. The application works in real time and it’s developed using the opensource framework for creative coding openFrameworks

Claiming space, student protests Spain

Demonstrators gather as they protest at Sol square, in Madrid, Friday May 20, 2011. Spanish university students and youth groups are protesting against a youth unemployment rate of 40 percent and austerity measures taken to end Spain's debt crisis. (Emilio Morenatti)

Photo series on cryptome.org

Invisible borders

The Libyan rebels' only plane is shot down over Benghazi. Libya's rebel stronghold came under attack, with at least two air strikes and sustained shelling of the city's south sending thick smoke into the sky

Despite promises of a ceasefire and the threat of air strikes, fighting continued along the Libyan coast Friday. A map published today by European air traffic control authorities shows that the no-fly zone over Libya stretches far out into the Mediterranean.

Ambient television: visual culture and public space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surveillance Camera Players: 1984

the Surveillance Camera Players

Map by the Surveillance Camera Players

Nineteen Ninety-Nine

The World learns the new Dutch reality invention.

Nineteen Eighty-Four