In my experience, current forms of digital magazines either (a) slavishly ape print conventions or (b) overwhelm the reader with gizmos, animation, too many links, and disjointed fragments of digital stuff.
Mag+ is an elegant model for future digital magazines that seems to overcome the weaknesses of both approaches. It’s logical, simple, but also interactive. It also looks like a perfect fit for the rumored Apple “Tablet” (now supposedly due in March 2010). Here’s an interesting video illustrating the Mag+ concept:
Ideally, the design, formatting, and user interface could be adapted to existing blogging/content management systems like Wordpress or Drupal. Then we’d be in business!
On September 14, 1814 the sun rose over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry to reveal a tattered American flag still flying after a night of intense bombardment by British warships. In response, Francis Scott Key wrote a stirring poem set to an unsingable tune. Here is a very lovely short film shot at a Fort McHenry “Fife & Drum” ceremony.
This is a short film exploring the Phillips Exeter Academy Library, a masterwork of the modernist architect Louis Kahn. It’s a lovely piece of filmmaking. What I can’t quite get my head around is that this video is entirely computer generated imagery. It is a segment in Alex Roman’s ongoing project to explore architecture through CG animation: The Third & The Seventh.
Despite the jaw-dropping beauty, this particular segment also contains an element of horror for bibliophiles… this rendering of the library contains no books!*
Nearly everything is controlled by multiple oscillators which when offset and multiplied by each other create an organic, continually changing pathway for the snake body to follow. The camera z depth is also hooked onto an oscillator, and also tracks a fixed point close to the head of the snake.
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