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Monday, September 26, 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

***FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TOMORROW***


THE ISLAND IS COMING- NYC issues ***FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON
LIVE PREFORMANCE AT 7:30 in the flood!
Brooklyn Bridge Park Tonight-






Local forecast
Updated: 09/23/2011 07:36 AM
Local forecast

***FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TOMORROW***
*** 1" to 3" of rain expected***


TODAY


Clouds/fog. Muggy
Steady to heavy rain develops
High: 76
Winds: E10-12


TONIGHT


Occasional Downpours
Some flooding possible
Low: 67
Winds: E10mph

TOMORROW

Mostly Cloudy
AM:Steady rain eases
pm:Scattered showers
High: 77
Winds: SE10mph

EXTENDED OUTLOOK

Scattered showers will continue through the rest of this weekend. Otherwise Skies will be mostly cloudy with a few breaks of sunshine possible. Highs will be in the 75-78 range on Sunday.

Highs could reach 80 degrees on Monday with the threat of more showers and isolated thunderstorms. Temperatures will ease down to the mid 70s on Tuesday with lingering showers.

Conditions may finally dry out by Wednesday through Friday with partly to mostly sunny skies. Overnight lows will fall back into the mid and upper 50s.

Edgard Nuñez
–Weather Department

Thursday, September 22, 2011

L magazine -- Manifest.AR 10 top things to see @ DAF

L magazine -- Manifest.AR 10 top things to see @ DAF

Ten Must-Sees at This Weekend's DUMBO Arts Festival 2011

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:34 PM

Monday, September 19, 2011

Friday, September 16, 2011

Dumbo Arts Festival 2011


project description

Lucky visitors who come to "The Island" may have their wish's granted during the Dumbo Arts Festival 2011!
On September 23 at 6:30 and 24th at 6:00 and during the entire festival lucky visitors may have one wish granted.

Visitors with supported smart phones may visit "The Island" during the Dumbo Arts Festival.

To enter "The Island" go to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Main St. or Washington St. entrance.
At these entrances turn on your smart phone and load the "Layar" app. Search for "The Island" and launch the app. An ocean and a bridge will appear leading into the park. The bridge leads to an island in the middle of the park. Care should be taken of the ocean while crossing the bridge. Once on the island walk to the top of the hill at the center of the park. Look for the island mystic. It is through
the island mystic that island visitors may communicate with the island goddess. If you are lucky you may ask the island goddess for one wish. Before coming to the island think very carefully what to wish for because only one wish will be granted to a lucky viewers. If you are lucky the goddess will grant your wish!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Hacking Space and Time --

Hacking Space and Time

By Gene Becker on Tue 19 Apr 2011

In my recent Ignite talk Hijacking the Here and Now: Adventures in Augmented Reality, I showed examples of how creative people are using AR in ways that modify our perceptions about time and space. Now, Ignite talks are only 5 minutes long and I think this is a big idea that's worth a deeper look. So here's my claim: I assert that one of the most natural and important uses of AR as a creative medium is hacking space and time to explore and make sense of the emerging physical+digital world.

When you look at who the true AR enthusiasts are, who is doing the cutting edge creative work in AR today, it's artists, activists and digital humanities geeks. Their projects explore and challenge the ideas of ownership and exclusivity of physical space, and the flowing irreversibility of time. They are starting to see AR as the emergence of a new construction of reality, where the physical and digital are no longer distinct but instead are irreversibly blended. Artist Sander Veenhof is attracted to the "infinite dimensions" of AR. Stanford Knight Fellow Adriano Farano sees AR ushering in an era of "multi-layer journalism". Archivist Rick Prelinger says "History should be like air," immersive, omnipresent and free. And in their recent paper Augmented Reality and the Museum Experience, Schavemaker et al write:

In the 21st century the media are going ambient. TV, as Anna McCarthy pointed out in Ambient Television (2001), started this great escape from domesticity via the manifold urban screens and the endless flat screens in shops and public transportation. Currently the Internet is going through a similar phase as GPS technology and our mobile devices offer via the digital highway a move from the purely virtual domain to the 'real' world. We can collect our data everywhere we desire, and thus at any given moment transform the world around us into a sort of media hybrid, or 'augmented reality'. [emphasis mine]

When the team behind PhillyHistory.org augments the city of Philadelphia with nearly 90,000 historical photographs in AR, they are actively modifying our experience of the city's space and connecting us to moments in time long past. With its ambitious scope and scale, this seems a particularly apt example of transforming the world into a media hybrid.

In their AR piece US/Iraq War Memorial (pictured below), artists Mark Skwarek and John Craig Freeman transpose the locative datascape of casualties in the Iraq War from Wikileaks onto the northeastern United States, with the location of Baghdad mapped onto the coordinates of Washington DC. In addition to spatial hackery evocative of Situationist psychogeographic play, this work makes a strong political statement about control of information, nationalist perspectives and the cultural abstraction of war.

us-iraq-maps

Now let's talk about this word, 'hacking'. Actually, you'll note that I used the term 'hijacking' as well, so let's include that too. My intent is to evoke the tension of multiple meanings: Hacking in the sense of gaining deep understanding and mastery of a system in order to modify and improve it, and as a visible demonstration of a high degree of proficiency. Also, hacking in the sense of making unauthorized intrusions into a system, including both white hat and black hat variations. I use 'hijacking' in the sense of a mock takeover, like the Black Eyed Peas playfully hijacking the myspace.com website for publicity purposes, but also hijacking as an antagonistic, possibly malign, and potentially unlawful attack. In the physical+digital augmented world, I expect we will see a wide variety of hacking and hijacking behaviors, with both positive and negative effects. For example, in Skwarek's piece with Joseph Hocking, the leak in your hometown, the corporate logo of BP becomes the trigger for an animated re-creation of the iconic broken pipe at the Macondo wellhead, spewing AR oil into your location. It is possible to see this as an inspired spatial hack and a biting social commentary, but I have no doubt BP executives would consider it a hijacking of their brand in the worst way.

In his book Smart Things, ubicomp experience designer Mike Kuniavsky asks us to think of digital media about physical entities as 'information shadows'; I believe the work of these AR pioneers points us toward a future where digital information is not a subordinate 'shadow' of the physical, but rather a first-class element of our experience of the world. Even at this early stage in the development of the underlying technology, AR is a consequential medium of expression that is being used to tell meaningful stories, make critical statements, and explore the new dimensionality of a blended physical+digital world. Something important is happening here, and hacking space and time through AR is how we're going to understand and make sense of it.

Monday, September 12, 2011

iSLAND of hOPE @ ISEA 2011 !!

110 Stories Opening Party Interview with Brian August

110 Stories Opening Party Interview with Brian August

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts - Iraqi Memorial Exhibition


iraqimemorial.org

OPENS THIS Friday at 6:00, Craig and Mark
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts - iraqimemorial exhibition
http://www.efanyc.org/iraqimemorial-exhibition/?SSScrollPosition=0

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Mark in New York Post ^^















































I was in the New York Post