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Elevator pitch:

LOST: Connections

Lost: Connections is an interactive exploration of the characters and storylines of the television show Lost. It will provide a new, spatial way to experience the relationships and narrative of the show by mapping the many connections between the characters and allowing the audience to interact with them in a non-linear way. Through both a two-dimensional and three-dimensional cartography of the island, new sensations and a deeper understanding of the show’s complex story arc and characters can be revealed. A map of the character’s connections will be presented in a two dimensional plane; moving and interacting with the map will reveal the scenes in a three-dimensional environment that is projected in front of the audience.

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####What:

A ‘broad-catching’ client that will parse a variety of RSS feeds (or scraped HTML pages) for links to BitTorrents of video files and automate their download. In addition to providing a simpler interface than browsing a multitude of websites, the application will:

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thanks to jeremy’s recommendation, I updated the blog to wordpress 1.5.2 and the K2 theme which has some really nice options. I can’t get the extended live archives to work for some reason, but I’ll figure it out in a bit…

Here’s a link to my spatial design portfolio

blobLines : Built with Processing

    A very simple bloglines notifier (right now it’s using my email; change it for your own account).  The circle grows and shrinks as your unread item count changes from the first time you load the notifier.  Right now the code requires a mouseclick to check for items so as not to harass the bloglines server, but if you uncomment a line you can make it check at whatever interval you’d like…

and feeder

feeder

    basic rss feed parser, I’m checking newtorrents.info for it’s rss feed, then parsing the results for any torrents that contain “TV” in the link. On mouse click it will display them, and you can use your arrow keys to choose one to download; click enter to download it!

technorati tags: rss, torrents, bloglines, processing, tv

Connections From LOST

This is a proto-prototype of my LOST connections labyrinth (as in the ABC tv series).  The get a sense of what it would be like, follow these directions (or don’t and watch it break on you!)

1) click on the island.

2) Click on the connection types in the right hand corner to see the different paths between characters

3) Click on “coincidental connections” last.

4) click on sawyer

5) click on the image that appears.  Enjoy the show.

6) Click on Jack.  repeat step 5.

6.5) Click on “trial-by-island’

7) click on jack again.

repeat step 5.

9) click on Locke to start over