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Losing one’s self in selfie moments
Part of Friday Inspirations, an ongoing MEX series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
Two rather different sources have inspired some musing on the evolving photographic ritual of self-regard.
Sam Barsky kni…
Video: Floris van Eck’s #mexsession on designing future imaging experiences
Floris van Eck gives an expansive look at the future of imaging experiences, drawing on his work for the likes of Canon and its Silicon Valley-based accelerator project, as well as his personal interests in the maker movement, cyborgs and the sing…
Life beneath the hovering eye
My dog noticed it first. His ears rose to the deep buzzing sound just audible above the coastal breeze. He looked up at me with his most inquisitive frown. It grew louder as we walked on, sounding like the hum of a city power generator or a swa…
User story: the selfie and the daisies
It was her stillness which caught my attention. She sat on the grass with an almost statue-like absence of motion. Slowly she raised an expensive, complicated digital camera until it was positioned in front of her face, the colour display angled t…
The creative experience of fake phone calls
These days iPhones have made everybody a photographer, which makes the ability to nail that shot – the one that captures the essence of a place and its inhabitants, all the more precious. Enter Jay Giampietro, a New Yorker who has perfected the…