tom
I did a project in the Netherlands based upon what
we bring with us on a journey. The end result was
that I created a product called tom - - one which
combined 2D journal entries with 3D objects that
remind the person of aspects of their journey. In this
case, the journey (experience) was recorded and
new journeys added upon each other.

The interesting thing was that most of the people
who I interviewed for the project carried quite
personal things with them. Personal only to them.
And it could be a smell, feel, symbol, which reminds
them of something special in their lives - - something
which can never be replaced. (or bought again)

So then part of sending someone an experience could
be sharing some special aspect to a journey.



posted by [j] at 10:14

re: taking pictures
Yea, a developed or digital photo is fine, but it doesn't
go further than showing a scene. A story would have
to be written to put the scene in context, or the
receiver could guess.

I wonder how else I could send an experience to someone.
Smell, touch, taste, sound, and sight are all part
of it, as well as a narritive for the story.
Could I then send a smell with a picture? (little china town at 7pm) ;)
Or a sample of the object shown to feel what it was like to touch.
What if a person's scent could be traced to the image? (underarmphoto)

These are things which are on my mind, especially as I
get ready to head back to Toronto for a visit. :)
I'll experiment with a few things...



posted by [j] at 10:02

Futureshock : : Yesterday I wanted to go and see a movie but the theatre wasn't there anymore.
posted by [d] at 11:41

Boiling Technology : : Mission : : Satisfy the need to send a experience
( in a human way )

Lately I have been experimenting with a digital camera. Very cool thing to have. I realised problems and limitations of current model. The interface design was not the best one. As [m] pointed out – Kodak spend a lot of time trying to make round buttons look round but oval in a effort to make a round button that better fitted the finger. The interface was – let’s say – unusual. I don’t think my finger can tell how round the button is – but it surely did find many times the POWER button instead of SHOOT button. To make things better – camera takes it’s time to power down making mayhem noises and retracting the zoom lens very slow. All this gives you time to curse or maybe slap yourself for being ‘soooo stooopid’. Or to take a break from taking great pictures. If there is a group photo than people would have to either socialize by force trying to make nice conversation or freeze with their mouths open and smiles cranked in a super long cheeeeze. So as pointed out – design can cause some problems in the daily life. The camera takes good pictures by the way.

Although I would rank this camera on the same level as a love relationship that doesn’t work, now I want a digital camera quite badly. I find many things in the day that deserve attention. And it’s very good for archiving process. I am not much concerned with the final result at this time. I want some sort of recording – less Polaroid – that is sooo expensive and blurry.

Now to get back to [j] posting in regards to ‘the need’ ‘to send her an experience by mail.’ We all know how cheesy the postcards are. Many times I would walk into a store and ask for postcards. Stores make a habit to carry same postcards many years in a row. In Quebec city I found postcards from the 80’s. How cool is that ?

The solution would be to shoot and print your own postcard. But how ? You would want to do it on the spot – shoot it, print it, write it, and drop it in to the closest box. This would provide the sender with a sense of accomplishment and pride in doing something for a person they miss and is far away. At the same time the receiver (in this case [j]’s girlfriend) would be very happy to get a custom, unique, real and [j] made postcard. This would make them be closer and they would both be happy. More sex for [j].

Motor.


posted by [d] at 18:45

Back to postcards
Some things which are on my mind:

Tools at hand are mail and digital mail.
Extra tools could be phone/gsm, text
messages, meeting in person, chat/forums,
fax (?).

Mission: to combine tools / or come up with
new services within the tools.

"ding" : like if I'm in Toronto and want to send an impression
of an experience I had to my girlfriend. (I'm in little italy for example)
They sell lousy postcards for these kinds of things
- - or the usual (view of niagara-falls) :(

"dong" = I want to send her an experience by mail.




posted by [j] at 06:57

Markets refine themselves
Hmm, ever read back to old reports about
"booming" economies, or even waaaay back
to Roman times (oh yea, we're doing sooo well - times)
The tools might change, but the hype is still the
same - - whenever something loses perspective
of what its offering, whenever the balance
weighs too heavily to one side, things start to slide.

I've been reading a lot about businesses now looking
back on older business models for support, even
to the point of bringing in an "old guy" to straighten
things out. We had a similar dip last year here in
Helsinki. Companies were hiring for the sake of scale.
People had design titles such as "motor" - - oh yea, I'm the motor (?)

You can call it the Net boom, or industrial revolution, or Roman
Empire, but its all the same language at heart.
= Markets refine themselves.

ps. dan's a motor :)


posted by [j] at 04:03

Reaction : : We are not a dot com company

Two years ago the net was booming on a gold rush. Anything with a dot com in the end was making big bucks, drawing investments and hype. The only reason for being there was money. The net was turned into a roulette with dot com names as numbers. The stock market was on fire and in chaos. Nobody did understand what was going on. The business model was sick. And the start up story will happen again. This time around it will be different.

"It seems now that all the really bad business went down the tubes." As pointed out in an article by Christopher Stuttard, editor for BankruptcyData, after compyling a list of companies filing for bankrupcy this month "Hardly any of them were dot-coms."

Companies "are stripping the dot-com out of their name" (Tim Miller, president of Webmergers) They still don't get it; and many of these companies wont be around for long to keep the note in front of their corporate parking lot lawn. Read this article and find out why they don't get it. Andy Groove explains in Rational Exuberance.

note : : although the above really has not much to do with what we discussed untill now - i felt that would be good to be parked in this place. spark.
posted by [d] at 13:45