Dear Santa,

At the pace videos like the one below are coming out, it seems like the Kinects hacks are really going to be offering up some interesting results in the next few months.

The Man and the Movie Camera

The Man and the Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov.

" . . . Vertov stands halfway between Baudelaire's Flaneur and today's computer user: no longer just a pedestrian walking down a street, but not yet Gibson's data cowboy who zooms through pure data armed with data-mining algorithms. In his research on what can be called "kino-eye interface," Vertov systematically tried different ways to overcome what he thought were the limits of human vision. He mounted cameras on the roof of a building and a moving automobile; he slowed and sped up film speed; he superimposed a number of images together in time and space temporal montage within a shot). Man with a Movie Camera is not only a database of city life in the 1920's, a database of film techniques, and a database of new operations of visual epistemology, but also a database of new interface operations that other aim to go beyond simple human navigation through physical space." -Lev Manovich The Language of New Media

Portfolio Review - Miranda July

Miranda July - Performance Artist / Film Director / Author / Installation Artist

MirandaJuly.com

When you first arrive at Miranda July's website you are invited to enter a secret password:

(Images are screen captures from Miranda July's website. All images are © of Miranda July unless otherwise noted.)

Though I have not done an exhaustive exploration of any Easter-eggs hidden behind the password script it seems as though most anything that gets typed in leads to the main website. A quick glance at the opening pages source code does turn up a line with the following in it: ". . . title="you don't really want to cheat, do you?">another way in /