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Maker Faire Africa 2009

• JOHNNYJUICE - Sep 30, 2009 12:37:00 PM

I’ve been reading lately about all of the cool inventions coming out of Maker Faire Africa, a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention at the AITI Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana’s capital, Accra. This...

Product vs Platform: The App Store

• JOHNNYJUICE - Sep 17, 2009 11:33:47 AM

The Internet favors platforms. Platforms are the intermediaries that deliver products. Platforms cannot exist without products, and products need platforms to be put into context and to be delivered. As our modern consumer culture becomes even more social...

Fugue – Free Interface Icons

• JOHNNYJUICE - Sep 9, 2009 11:18:19 AM

As a web and interface designer I’m constantly looking for icons. I have my favorite set of standard email, logout, download etc.. icons, but every now and then I’ll find myself struggling to find an icon for some random, difficult to describe functio...

Jacob Sharp – August 2009 Mix

• JOHNNYJUICE - Aug 31, 2009 10:45:18 AM

Jacob Sharp posted up this one-take mix he did of summer jams. It’s got a bit of indie stuff mixed with some nu-wave and disco-y type jams. Great for train rides, drives or background at the office. If you liked the earlier mix I posted Midnight Be...

Waterlife – NFB

• JOHNNYJUICE - Aug 27, 2009 12:41:09 PM

Toronto based creative studio JAM3MEDIA teamed up with The National Film Board of Canada to produce an amazing online experience for the Waterlife documentary film. The film tells the story of the last great supply of fresh drinking water on earth. It...

Scratch Surface Applications

• JOHNNYJUICE - Aug 26, 2009 10:49:34 AM

CMU researcher Chris Harrison is heading to SIGGRAPH this summer to showcase some of his cool interface work. His has done lots of research into touch screen & tactile interfaces, much of it very interesting. At this years conference he will be displ...

How the Internet sees me

• JOHNNYJUICE - Aug 24, 2009 10:01:01 AM

MIT’s Media Lab recently launched Personas, a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portr...

A vertical look at civilization

• JOHNNYJUICE - Aug 21, 2009 10:02:33 AM

CRUSH and Marco Brambilla of the The Ebeling Group partnered up to create an AMAZING motion graphics installation at the Standard Hotel here in New York. This “video mural” is displayed in a panel inside the elevator and pans up or down, dep...

Edisto Beach, South Carolina

• JOHNNYJUICE - Aug 19, 2009 2:50:03 PM

I spent the past week relaxing with my family in Edisto Beach, South Carolina. It was really enjoyable and could not have happened at a more appropriate time. I’ve always enjoyed the South Atlantic because of its unique terrain, people and cuisine...

DJ B.Cause: Super Disco Hyphy

• JOHNNYJUICE - Jul 23, 2009 10:09:57 AM

Here’s an oldie but a real goodie. San Francisco based DJ B. Cause made this mix back in 2007. B. Cause is one of my favorite remix artists and in this mix he seamlessly blends bay area hyphy acapellas over disco and boogie instrumentals. A odd com...