weblog August 06, 2004   Separated at birth. A couple of days ago I stumbled onto a site showcasing a few interesting mobile phone concepts from AU KDDI (via Akihabara), some by the likes of design icons Naoto Fukasawa and Marc Newson. While a few back to 2001/2002 most of them are still seductively beautiful, my favorite being Fukasawa's plastic pebble, Ishicoro. I could not help but notice the cunning similarities between Ichiro Higashiizumi's Apollo and the just released Siemens SK65 (via Gizmodo). Both exhibit a "pivot and text" approach that also somehwat brings to mind Nokia's 6810. Separated at birth: Ichiro Higashiizumi's Apollo (2002, left) and the Siemens SK65 (2004, right). There must be a connection in there, somewhere. Posted by fabio sergio | 4:28 PM | permalink ............ August 03, 2004   freegorifero (at) del.icio.us. I've joined the ranks of those using del.icio.us to keep track of random sightings. In case you're interested here's freegorifero's del.icio.us page and its de-rigueur RSS feed. Update: the great folks over at FeedBurner have enhanced their SmartFeed to enable del.icio.us and Flickr users to neatly package their social bookmarks and photos together with their "regular" weblog feed. This means that freegorifero's weblog RSS feed will now also include freegorifero's del.icio.us links. Isn't life wonderful? Talk about the power of small pieces, loosely joined. Posted by fabio sergio | 1:20 PM | permalink ............ August 02, 2004   Putting time back into the picture. Time that land forgot, Timo Arnall's latest brainchild (in collaboration with Even Westvang), is an interesting attempt at highlighting the time component when it comes to geo-referenced photographic data. "Over the last five years Timo has been photographing daily experience using a digital camera and archiving thousands of images by date and time. Being transient, ephemeral and incredibly numerous; these images have become a sequential narrative beyond the photographic frame. They sit somewhere between photography and film, with less emphasis on the single image in re-presenting experience. ... We looked at existing photo-mapping work, discovering a lot of projects that attempted to give images context by placing them within a map, or giving images a key to an adjacent map. But these visualisations and interfaces seemed to foreground the map over the images. ... By shifting the emphasis to location the aspect most clearly lacking in these representations is time and thereby also the context in which the images can most easily form narrative to the viewer. ... The first prototype is a linear experience of a journey, suitable for a gallery or screening, where images are overlaid into textural clusters of experience. It shows a scaling representation of the travel route based on the distance covered the last 20-30 minutes. Images recede in scale and importance as they move back in time. Each tick represents 1 minute, every red tick represents an hour. We chose to create a balance of representation in the interface around a set of prerogatives: first image (for expressivity), then time (for narrative), then location (for spatialising, and commenting on, image and time)." Vaguely like a GPS-enhanced Lifeblog on speed, but strangely reminiscent of Sinnzeug as well. Posted by fabio sergio | 4:24 PM | permalink ............ Not bored yet? Visit freegorifero's weblog archives for more useless words.

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