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Higly influenced by an artist Gunnar pointed us to, namely, Candize Breitz.

Who uses video and karako as a mens for telling the story about extreme fans and probably other stuff.

Fantastic!

At the moment I think we are about to set up a little idea bank. Here are just the thoughts for he moment. the stronger once are getting visualized as we speak. We have categorized the ideas on the basis of what is the main attribute to the idea.

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Baja Beach Club, the first night club to swap VIP cards with an injection of RFID chip. An interview with the owner Conrad Chase:

After fridays midterm review we are in the process of not redefining our project, but to get bak on track of what we really want to achieve. The main idea of the project was to make people interact more with other people and not with installations.

So back to square one….

It really is not that bad but we definitely needs to take a u-turn at this point and se where we are heading this time. Sometimes it is hard to keep track on what we really are looking for.

The starting point for this task was the fascination of RFID being represented in the physical world and to use this fact in a attempt to bring people closer together in the real world.

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On friday we presented two concepts around social RFID at festivals, The first spins around Facebook and the the idea that you can “bring” your friends to the festivals. As you sign up for the service you give access to you friendslist on Facebook and the system will automatically know who are there and not. The idea is that you can “meet” your friends around the festival without actually meeting them. You will just get some hints about who are there and not. 

The critique of this was that it is actually not socially interactive when you are not able to give some feedback or to trace them down. t this stage we had set the technical parameters very low, taking a very realistic approach to the project. And we might end up chaning this a bit in the next iteration.

The main idea was that yu would get some sort of magical encounters with your friends, having a suprising and fun outcome.

The second concept we presented was about Viggo venneløs. We pictured a festival pet displaying the state of the festival. But also having an inner more personal soul. We fell in love with the idea of Viggo displaying everybody on the outside and having a very calm inside maybe displaying your encounters and your network at the festival in an more abstract way. We also imagined that there could be one egg for each scene and that you could talk to people on the other concerts trough the egg. Another idea of the egg was that it had its own personality, getting drunker and more interruptive an more challenging the more the festival had to drink. We imagined that it started to hail people in shouting and being obnoxious.

We also thought that viggo had several peekholes for people to interact with him at the same time,thus making it more social interactive.

It has been almost a month since my last confession…  Very bad blogging indeed since I find that every time I do blog it helps me to structure my thoughts.   

The physical computing week with Tom went fairly well, but we didn’t actually end up with a working platform prototype or probing device of any sort wich is a shame. But I at least got an better understanding of how to build prototypes I think.

We got Tom to help us with setting up multiple readers that where hooked up to one output which is a starting point for multiple inputs in an aera. And we  (or Tom) also managed to make pictures pop up from the different readers according to person.And the same features using Zig Bees to transmit the data, which I found a little magic in itself.  

Tom also showed us that it is possible for for ex. processing to get information from other sites like facebook. We specifically tried to get the friends list from facebook. This proved to be difficult for, and needs a special library that has not been written yet. But it is possible and that is interesting