According to TED.com: “Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark — and how audio can clue us in to developing creativity.”
“In his day job, Jared Ficklin makes user interfaces at frog design. As a hobby, he explores what music looks like … in light, in shapes, in fire.”
“Jared Ficklin is a Senior Principal Design Technologist at frog, where he builds user experiences for clients, playing with interactions including touch and multi-touch, and applying physics to enhance the user experience. A passion for music and making things introduced him to the hobby of sound visualization, which has led him on occasion to play with fire. (As Flash on the Beach puts it, ‘Jared Ficklin’s sonic experiments stood out for their individuality, drama and casual disregard for health and safety.’) Every March in Austin, Texas, Ficklin organizes the frog party, a collective social experiment for a few thousand people attending SXSW Interactive. It’s a form of playful R&D for social technology. And he has spent 10 years helping fund, design and build quality free public skateparks for Austin as part of the Austin Public Skatepark Action Committee. “
New ways to see music (with color! and fire!) by Jared Ficklin
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
In today’s tutorial, Reviewing MANDALA APPS by SwanStar Designs, we get to see SwanStar Designs play with a number of different apps for creating mandalas on her Android phone and pad. The apps reviewed include:
Today’s tutorial is Super Easy Mandala Creator by Art ala Carte. She has found a tool to use online to simply play and create a beautiful mandala. I know from the stats on this blog that many of you continue to enjoy the post Mandala Monday – Color online with colormandala.com and in that vein of using creation tools online, I expect many of you will love playing with Mandala Creator.
This is what Art ala Carte says about this tutorial: “This would be considered cheater art by most artist. I called it FUN! No you can’t take credit for what you create in this. The art of creating Mandalas is really amazing. This is like lip-syncing while you play your favorite song… but its still fun!”
According to TED.com: “Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark — and how audio can clue us in to developing creativity.”
