The NY Times has a pretty interesting interactive map of homicides in NYC dating from 2003 to the present based on data provided by the police department.
Take a look at it here.
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Archive for the ‘web’ Category
New York City Homicides Map
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Urban A&O’s site featured in Net Diver
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
SOFTlab’s website for Urban A&O was featured in Net Diver’s 10 year Anniversary Web Issue. Check out the Architectural Website Strategies article by Elsye Alam.
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EFGH
Friday, November 14th, 2008
SOFTlab has just completed the website for our good friends Frank Gesualdi and Hayley Eber at EFGH.
The site was conceived as a pulsing array of pixels that contain the projects. After a while, it looks like the site is breathing, almost alive.
Go check it out.
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DS+R’s (first) Website
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Guess who has a new site? The cool kids at Diller Scofidio + Renfro. It only took them this long to get one, but they did come out in style. Awesome site, using -what looks like- Papervision. It seems like it also went up quietly just recently.
Check it out at www.dsrny.com
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Farewell, and welcome back Mr. Jobs
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Bloomberg news published a few days ago Steve Jobs’ obituary…No, he’s not dead, it was just one of those little mistakes – hit “Publish” instead of “Save”? It was quickly removed from the site, yet not quick enough for Gawker not to pick up on it.
Read the entire 17 page (yes 17 pages!!) obituary, internal notes and other goodies in Gawker’s site here.
Creepy, but unsurprising that they pre-write these things. I wonder if the folder structure where they keep them looks something like this.
Oh, and welcome back Mr. Jobs.
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Paris for President
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die
Paris Hilton’s energy plan actually makes more sense than both McCain’s and Obama’s. I’m voting for her. oh wait, I can’t vote…
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Help
Friday, July 11th, 2008
I recently received -not for the first time of course – this message requesting help. For the first time though, I actually sat down to read and redline it. Poor Miss Sandra does sound like she’s in a lot of distress, so much that she’s writing from Ivory Coast, yet the reply address -which is different from the outgoing mail address- is from India. Maybe she commutes to write emails from India. She must be spending her 5.6 million dollars flying between the two contries to write these emails…
I also appreciate the fact that there is a rose next to her name. That just tilted the balance and prompted me to -almost- help her. Or be sorry for her.
It’s all in the details folks.
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Urban A&O Web Launch
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The website for Joe MacDonald’s studio Urban A&O was recently launched. The project was led by Mike Szivos at SOFTlab.
Go check it out at www.urbanao.com
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LARPing in NJ
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The group LAIRE (Live Action Interative Role-playing Explorers) is one of many groups that have been getting together for over a decade (!) at a Girl Scouts camp in NJ for LARPing (Live-Action Role Playing), exploring imaginary worlds, fighting goblins and completing quests.
Makes me wonder if they have the honey why don’t you go hunt for some baby food instead of fighting your friends with imaginary lighting bolts quest.
Hopefully none of my MMORPG playing friends will show up at the studio dressed up as an elf…
Read the Wired article here.
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Flock
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
I’ve just come to discover Flock a new social web browser which is based on the Firefox technology. It allows you to have all those apps you don’t really want to have so easily accesible at hand: Flickr, Facebook, Picassa, RSS feeds, Del.icio.us, Twitter, etc etc etc. The can all be opened within your browser window and, heres the coolest (for me at least) you can post directly to your own blog through the web interface. It has a bunch other cool features that I’m just starting to check out.
This is the Beta release (it’s been very recently launched) but it still handles very well. This will be my first blog post directly through it so I’ll let you know how that worked out.
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Against All Odds
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Workers at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have designed a game where the players play the part of a refugee. Among the challenges are escaping a war ridden town, getting asylum in foreign countries and starting a new life in a new place.
Read the BBC news here and play the game here.
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Mc Corporate
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Want to see how quickly you can run McDonald’s into the ground? Find out by playing the McVideogame here.
It took me only 3 years…
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Key Magazine
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
The NYT had John Maeda design the cover of its latest edition of the Key Magazine, the Times real-estate magazine.
There is a short slideshow of the design process which is pretty fun and interesting.
View the slideshow here.
Thanks Mara for pointing it out.
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FFFFound
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Looking through our SOFTlab visitor statistics (nerdy I know) I stumbled upon FFFFound, an image bookmarking site which allows users to post and share their favorite images. It also recommends images dynamically based on user interests and tastes.
More design and arts based than pictures-with-my-puppies based, looks like it could become an interesting resource for cool images.
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Google Sky
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Google has recently launched Google Sky. Included within Google Earth 4.2, the SKY mode allows you to explore galaxies far-far away, the sky right above your location and perhaps even design flaws on the Death Star.
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Flock of Birds
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
I had come across this experiment a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post it. Today, poking around my bookmarks I found it again.
It’s done in Processing and it displays about 3000 flocking elements. More on the project here.
And by all means, check the site All Manner of Distractions out. There are some amazing experiments in there.
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Google Streetview
Friday, June 1st, 2007
I finally took a look at Google’s new Street View addition to Google Maps and it is truly amazing: you have a 360-degree street view which can be panned just by dragging on it. Just place the little fellow wherever you want to and take a peek of the city.
Why go visit places now when you can just sit on your behind and click your way through the world?
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n vfx
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Just ran into this site for a visual effects guy out in Germany, Nastuh Abootalebi. At first I was looking mainly at the site design and UI, which scores a 9 out of 10 in my book. The dual screen “before & after” has been done before, but never so slick. I love that no matter what button you push or information you receive, the site remains smooth and continuous. And, if you don’t move your mouse for a bit, everything dims down so you can focus on the work.
Which is exactly what I did (after my rather short investigation of the interface). (more…)
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My Maps Google
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Google has launched ‘My Maps’, where the creation and distribution of customized maps is a very simple process. ‘MyMaps’ gives you the ability to draw lines, create polygons and insert placemarks with just a simple click. Images and video can be embedded onto the description window as well (you’ll have to do it manually though). So, it won’t be long until we start seeing some very interesting mappings of cities. Guy Debord and the situationists would’ve been delighted.
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TED (not my former boss) Video
Friday, March 30th, 2007
The TED conference has begun posting videos of its speakers to the web at www.ted.com/tedtalks. They are nothing short of amazing. In particular I recommend: Rives and Richard St. John, but there are a wide variety of subjects to choose from. (more…)
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