Stumbled across one of the most stunning augmented reality environments on a bustling market street in Seoul this evening. It's called Royal Grand Prix Derby Racing (On Air). Inside it's darkened, quiet and smoky room, are row and row of illuminated consoles quietly and occupied by contemplative men huddled…

Nicolas Nova posts a relevant musing on Instant Messaging:

Passing through Narita this afternoon on my way back from the Art Center Nabi Workshop on Urban Play and Locative Media, (scan the blog for a few notes from the 3 day workshop) I found a large sign in the transfer zone between international flights indicating that one was to remove any drinks (plastic bottles of wat…

Had another one of those "the world is the size of a postage stamp" moments (maybe it's also a networked publics moment..) while returning to Los Angeles from Seoul via Tokyo on UA890 when I somewhat randomly decided to listen to the music channels that pipe through the armrests. I normally don't do that, mostly bec…

Baruch Gottlieb – Soundmarks

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Aram Armstrong mentioned a project he worked on in a Service Design course at Ivrea that involved using a pedometer that would sustain or enliven or otherwise affect an electronic avatar that you could then jack into your computer back at home and it would author a blog entry about how good it was feeling based on m…

Day 1 was comprised of a series of speakers discussing their insights and projects relating to locative media and urban play. This was followed by an excellent expert guided tour of Myung-Dong, the region of focus for the workshop. After that was a dinner on the epic 33rd floor of the SK Tower.

The NYT ran a piece in the October 17 2005 issue titled "Now Playing on a Tiny Screen" about the increasing media interest in video-based entertainment designed for mobile phones.