{"id":1948,"date":"2014-03-25T18:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2014-03-28T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:34:08","slug":"on-koblin-and-echelmans-unnumbered-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1948","title":{"rendered":"On Koblin and Echelman&#8217;s &#8220;Unnumbered Sparks&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting new friends I&#8217;ve gotten to make during my time at USC so far has got to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronkoblin.com\">Aaron Koblin<\/a>, this year&#8217;s innovator-in-residence at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annenberglab.com\">Annenberg Innovation Lab<\/a> and the Creative Director of the Data Arts Team at Google. Aaron&#8217;s just unveiled his latest work, a collaboration with textile sculptor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echelman.com\">Janet Echelman<\/a> done in conjunction with the TED 2014 conference that they call &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnumberedsparks.com\">Unnumbered Sparks<\/a>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/npjTmG-TBHQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unnumbered Sparks&#8221; is an absolutely <i>massive<\/i> interactive fabric sculpture, which Aaron and Echelman describe as &#8220;a monumental interactive sculpture in the sky. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, the sculpture is a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Here, have another YouTube video on the tech powering it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6JGzPLZrVFU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. That thing&#8217;s a giant <i>web site.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Freaking mind-blowing, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting new friends I&#8217;ve gotten to make during my time at USC so far has got to be Aaron Koblin, this year&#8217;s innovator-in-residence at the Annenberg Innovation Lab and the Creative Director of the Data Arts Team at Google. Aaron&#8217;s just unveiled his latest work, a collaboration with textile sculptor Janet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,79,16,8,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-ail","category-art","category-interactive","category-usc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-vq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}