20th anniversay of June 4th Massacre

A sad day in humanity.

http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

"Tank man" blocks a column of tanks heading east on Beijing's Chang'an Boulevard (Avenue of Eternal Peace) near Tiananmen Square during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. This photo was taken from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile away, through a 400mm lens.

This photo was taken on June 5, 1989, by Jeff Widener (The Associated Press).

A documentary of this most remarkable events by Antony Thomas.

MIT Mobile Experience Lab lectures

School of Creative Media had invited Dr. Federico Casalegno from The Media Lab, Massachusetts of Technology to give 2 lectures on "Future of Television Seminar: Rethinking the TV experience". The 2 lectures were hosted on 25 and 26 of May 2009.

I found these two lectures had touched little on the future of television. Dr. Federico Casalegno had presented design projects with interactive experiences and mostly associated and developed for mobile phones.

I found the following two projects are the most interesting; re-thinking the Paris Bus Line with an interactive bus stop, and the cloud, an interactive sculpture.

For information about the project, please visit http://mobile.mit.edu/en/smartmobility

The project can be download smartmobility_report_long.pdf.

The Cloud, a large interactive sculpture, located in downtown Firenze; created by MIT Mobile experience Lab. Consisting of 15,371 individual fibers and 65km of fiber optics, The Cloud senses human movement and tactile engagement provoking a variety of responses, including changes in light, animation and sound.

The software used to create The Cloud is open source.



Another demo video, nicely shot with a model, looks cheesy though.

More MIT videos and projects can be found on MIT Mobile Experience Lab.