Jonathan Harris and Seb Kamvar

Daniel Brown, artist and programmer

Daniel Brown is a designer, programmer and artist whose work I admire for its technical and creative playful exploration. Alongside Nick Knight (photography) and Nick Ryan (audio) they have created an interactive project aimed at exploring the phenomenon of Synaesthesia. The artwork responds to mouse movements, burning out parts of the image as it is scrolled over, with sounds triggered corresponding to the texture of the image.

http://www.play-create.com/id.php?014 

Raindrop melody maker

Japanese music group ‘Lullotone’ create what they refer to as ‘pyjama pop’. Although they are known for their music, they do not consider this to be their only artistic pursuit. They are people who ‘make stuff’ whether it be music, design, animation or games. To add to this, they also host a weekly childrens television show in Japan where they make things (similar to ‘art attack’). I particularly like their Raindrop Melody Maker for its simplistic and playful interface. Lullotone suggest their (young) audience use the game to create simple songs about raindrops

http://www.soundtoys.net/toys/raindrop-melody-maker

Destroying QR codes in the name of play

Paula Scher on Creativity and Play

Iain McGilchrist on Play, Originality and Purpose

We feel fine

We Feel Fine is an online project by Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar that collects human feelings. Their software searches blog entries for phrases such as “I feel” and “I am feeling”, and records the full sentence, classifies it and enters it into a database. The information is then presented as infographics or visuals which can be searched and sorted.

http://wefeelfine.org