I am amazed at how lucky I am here are at the Powerhouse Museum. We have an incredible range of equipment to use and staff with a multitude of untapped talents. I was reminded of this yesterday we we decided to do the voice-over for the new Powerhouse Museum walking tour app I've been working on with Nicko and Luke. It's a 21 stop tour of 'Old George Street' and we were able to use the ThinkSpace labs thanks to Peter Mahoney and when I asked Einar Docker who works here to do the voice he was fantastic. Hope to release in next few weeks and for it to be our first on Android as well as Iphone.
Music of the week - Pharoh Sanders - Balance - I listened to this piece of music on the way to work and felt like it altered my thought processes in preparation for the day – listening on the way back home confirmed this is an awesome 12 mins of music – to be taken in moderation however!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN6l-tBd_jo
Book: 500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation ; George Eastman House is showcasing its own collection of 500 groundbreaking cameras. Includes detective, digital, stereo, sub-miniature, 35mm, and spy cameras hidden in watches, It includes essays by Robert Shanebrook, Martin Scott and Mark Osterman. http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/book-500-cameras-170-years-of-photographic-innovation
In 2009, artist Josh Melnick used a scientific research camera to film portraits of New York City subway riders in slow motion—very slow motion, about a hundred times slower than normal film speed. The result was a moment viewed as if through a high-powered microscope, revealing a degree of temporal detail inaccessible to the naked eye.
This is an excerpt of Melnick being interviewed by Walter Murch which will appear in full in Melnick’s book, The 8 Train, soon to be published http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/02/07/josh-melnick-and-walter-murch-in-conversation/
I was really impressed with Ross Dawson's new site which includes links to his Framework infographics http://rossdawson.com/frameworks/
The Beatles Abbey Road Photograph Sessions were taken on 8 August 1969. These were taken by Ian MacMillan as John Paul George and Ringo walked across the crossing three times. In all he took just six photographs and the 5th frame was the one chosen. All the frames – some background – and some insight into the people in the background can be seen at http://www.snapgalleries.com/exhibitions/beatles-and-bystanders-the-abbey-road-sessions/
Lytro Light Field infinite focus Camera's – while it's yet to be released there is lots of interesting info in this camera manual at http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/09/lytro-fcc/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
I thought this was nice idea – the Penn Museum program allows patrons to adopt artifacts rather than just donate http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/02/penn_museum_starts_quotadopt_an_artifactquot_program
The programme for MuseumNext conference at Barcelona is confirmed and looks worth following if you can't make it there. It has over 40 presentations featuring speakers from 13 countries and will cover everything from how to use social media for marketing on a budget, through to augmented reality, mobile phone apps, crowdsourcing, open data and educational projects.
Google has also released its beta of Chrome for Android - http://www.appbrain.com/app/google-chrome-to-phone/com.google.android.apps.chrometophone
Cisco has released a whitepaper stating it believes the cloud will be taking up to half of the world's digital workload by 2014. http://xfactorcomms.visibli.com/share/Mv5R20
I kinda liked this - 4,200 Coca-Cola crates used to create a giant statue in Cape Town, South Africa. http://designtaxi.com/news/351534/4-200-Coca-Cola-Crates-Used-For-Giant-Statue/
Three Creative Ways of Using Google+ Hangouts - Pam Sahota has submitted a short article on creative ways to use Google Plus Hangouts. It’s an opportunity for individuals or businesses to utilise this virtual “hangout” to communicate with others in their community or business via video. The only disadvantage that appears right away is the restriction of 10 people per hangout. However, when it comes to meetings and having the chance to build a deeper relationship among community members sometimes fewer can be beneficial. See more
This is pretty wild use for 3D printing - surgeons successfully replace a woman's infected jaw with a 3D printed one from Forbes Magazine http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/02/05/woman-has-jaw-replaced-with-3-d-printed-model/
Australian Policy Online has released statistics for Australian Government expenditure on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), 2008-09 – 2009-10 http://apo.org.au/research/australian-government-ict-expenditure-2008-09-%E2%80%93-2009-10
Ten meta-trends impacting learning #HorizonReport via @heyjudeonline
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/ten-meta-trends-impacting-learning/
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