jnhasty

For anyone building projects utilizing GIFs, check out the GIPHY api.

http://api.giphy.com/

Here's another project using GIFs and beat matching:

http://www.seehearparty.com/

Some other cool projects:

http://giphy.com/labs

Many similar GIFs to be found on Giphy:

http://giphy.com/tags/geometry/

http://giphy.com/tags/math/

http://giphy.com/tags/physics/

I'll append Rhizome to this list (thought they were mentioned in the article as they're doing 7on7). They've been at the forefront 'art/tech', 'new media art', 'digital art' et al since 1996. http://rhizome.org

In 2010 Werner Herzog released a documentary about trappers and their families living in the Taiga. It's called "Happy People":

http://www.wernerherzog.com/62.html

I really recommend it. The people survive their arduous living conditions by continually preparing for the next season. They've done the same things more or less for generations, always working, and pretty much cut off from modern civilization. Makes you realize how happiness is a fairly relative value. Their lives are completely defined by the need to survive, and as long as that's accomplished things are good.

This project emerged out of Rhizome's Seven on Seven conference, which Aaron took part in last year.

http://rhizome.org/sevenonseven/

He was paired up with artist Taryn Simon. It was an elegant project in that it demonstrated how something as fundamental to web interaction as "searching" is actually bound and determined by many cultural and political forces.

You can watch the full presentation here. Very worthwhile.

http://vimeo.com/40651117

Also: http://tarynsimon.com/

Server side includes might be a simple solution for this:

http://joshuajonah.ca/blog/2010/06/18/poor-mans-esi-nginx-ss...