Just wrote a post about a story in the NY Times called “The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives“. In this story, it is argued that the map is becoming a new metaphor for organizing information via mobile devices. Read the post over here >>
Archive for February, 2009
New post @The Mobile City blog: The map as metaphor
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Presentation at HvA for food awareness campaign
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Yesterday I gave a short presentation at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam about the possibilities to use mobile media for a food awareness campaign by FairFood. Students have to design and develop a campaign involving the mobile phone for the ‘Green Dot’ award (a sustainable alternative to the Golden Dot award by the HvA’s Instituut voor Interactieve Media). I focussed on the location-based possibilities of mobile phone.
Below the files (mostly in Dutch):
090210_hva_mdelange01.pdf – Some slides about campaigning + technical aspects of the mobile phone
090210_hva_mdelange02.pdf – Some slides about locative media
Micromovies for mobile on Dutch public channel
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Dutch digital channel Uitzendinggemist has a number of ‘Micromovies‘ especially for the mobile screen. You can watch them via the application made for mobile phones.
Many of the movies are made by mobile phones and address some aspect of mobile phones.
In the movie Death Valley the theme of solitude is displayed. This desert is one of the few places where there is no cellular signal.
Or the movie ‘Over en Uit’ about being called in a public place, and hearing some very disturbing news…
It is nice to see some more attention for mobile phone movies as an emerging genre.
Urban screen encounter at Haarlemmerplein, Amsterdam
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Just saw this very rudimentary urban screen (no interactivity it seems) at the Haarlemmerplein. Apparently with old photos from the neighborhood. The chill and wet snow prevented me from being more inquisitive…