Barton took it upon himself to redesign the Facebook experience with a completely revamped interface and navigation system inspired by Skimmer. The new design he made looks much more fluid than the current Facebook site and mimics some of the side-scrolling functionality present in the current iPhone Facebook application.
One of my favorite parts of the redesign is the events/calendar page (see below) which I think would be a great addition to the current Facebook site. I wonder if anybody at Facebook is seeing Barton’s work.
Check out a demo video of the new Facebook facelift below.
AnimalNY linked to this fascinating project by street artist EVOL that depicts abandoned neighborhoods entirely out of building and window stencils on stone columns.
The location for this ‘city’ is a 10m X 8m hole in an abandoned warehouse floor; the concrete shapes are “probably the former foundation of a huge boiler plant to derive soap from rendered beef fat or other utilization of carcass. however, even 15 years after closing down, it still smells nauseous.
Check out more images of this awesome project at unurth!
Just north of the city of Poughkeepsie in New York on the Hudson River is a massive rehabilitation and construction project that is on schedule to be completed by October 3, 2009. The project is called Walkway Over The Hudson and it takes the former Poughkeepsie Bridge and turns it into the world’s longest pedestrian and bicycling bridge.
Anyway, it’s a bit far from the city, but I would love to go there and just stand on the bridge especially with Fall colors coming up. I’m keeping October 3 on my calendar.
Personas is a fun project created by Aaron Zinman (along with the Social Media Group at MIT) that allows you to see how the internet views your particular name/alias (in this case, I entered “Doobybrain” and “Herman Yung” separately). Personas scours the internet for information about your name — regardless of whether or not it’s you or somebody else with the same name — and attempts to use computer algorithms to figure out the difference. The results for me were mixed each time I did it, but I think it’s still a worthy project to make note of. If anything, watching the computer figure you out is fascinating because the page turns into a plethora of rainbows.
Two guys, Neil and Jeff, are behind a new documentary they call the Arrested Development Documentary Project (ADDP) that takes a look at the road that led to the rise and fall of one of the most loved TV shows of all time. They two men set out to interview as many people associated with Arrested Development as possible and to get their views and opinions on why they think the show ended so abruptly and why nobody seemed to know it was on TV when it aired regular new episodes. Was it a marketing failure? Was it simply too weird for the general public? Who at Fox pulled the plug on the show? This and many other interestin tidbits about the show will be answered when the documentary gets released.
