Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don’t visit.

Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).

Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven’t taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.

The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken by locals.

Here’s London:

more here on flickr

I’m no graphics math whiz, but I made some fun stuff fast.

1. • Title: The Most Boring Interactive Installation Ever
   • Concept: An interactive installation that generatively seeks to create the most boring interactive installation possible. As visitors enter the space they are observed by a computer vision system that attempts to determine their reactions to the piece by monitoring their posture, their facial expressions, the amount of time that they spend in the installation, how close they move to any one of the screens, whether they wave or gesture at any of the screens, how much they speak and the volume of that speech. Each visitors reaction would be stored and weighted to attempt to evolve the visual and auditory combination that invokes the least amount of reaction and time spent in the installation space.
   • Implementation: This would be done using 3 cameras to track viewers, openFrameworks, openCV, and the rtNEAT library.
2. • Title: Time Will Wipe That Smile Off Your Face
   • Concept: An installation that seeks to evoke first a smile and then a frown in the viewer using videos culled from YouTube. As a viewer enters the space the program will attempt to track their face and display videos that will evoke a smile on the viewers face by retrieving and displaying “funny” or “cute” videos from YouTube. Once a large smile or even laughter has been evoked the installation will begin to seek out videos that mitigate that smile and finally videos that may evoke a frown in the viewer. Once the viewer has frowned the installation will become inactive. The installation will be provided with an initial list of videos that have certain weightings from -1.0 (frown) to 1.0 (smile) but will also evolve a database of its own. At the end of each day the installation will upload the video that has evoked the best fit for a quadratic smile-to-frown arc.
   • Implementation: This would be done using 2 cameras to track viewers faces, openFrameworks, openCV, the rtNEAT library, and YouTube. A small SQLite database would be used to store the urls of videos.
3. • Title: Empty Orchestra
   • Concept: A conductor is shown on three screens awaiting. When three people stand in front of each screen and makes the same pose at the same time the conductor begins to conduct a symphony that becomes more harmonic the more that the users movements synchronize. If the users movements do not synchronize the music becomes discordant. If any user stops moving in sync with the other users the music stops. If there are not three users positioned each in front of each screen the installation simply displays the word Empty in front of each screen that does not have a user in front of it.
   • Implementation: 3 cameras to track viewers, openFrameworks, openCV, Maximillian audio generation library, MP3 files.

Platform 13 starts from the premise that our current global society, with its prevailing techno-political system, faces challenges of an unprecedented scale. We are asking ourselves how Design can contribute to alternative models of living and production by engaging with, commenting on, and addressing issues currently beyond the usual scope of design – political, social, technological or ecological.

Nomadic Sound System from Chris K Jones on Vimeo.

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textFlow.flowComposer.addController(new ContainerController(this.topText, 500, 400)); // <--- NOTE
textFlow.interactionManager = new EditManager(new UndoManager());
textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers(); invalidateDisplayList();
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private function setFontSize():void {
textFlow.setStyle('fontSize', comboBox.selectedItem);
textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();
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So, apologies for any confusion and thank you to Charlie Kelly for pointing that out. It’s fixed in the code downloads and will be in any future edition.