Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus by Patrick Clair

An infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. This was produced for Australian TV program HungryBeast on Australia’s ABC1

Direction and Motion Graphics: Patrick Clair
Written by: Scott Mitchell

Production Company: Zapruder’s Other Films.

filed under: 3d  infographics  motion design  software  terror

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Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation visits "NOW"

As the final event of “NOW’s April edition – “Meetings in the present continuous” – Richard Stallman, the GNU-inventor and founder of the free software foundation, shared his thoughts and beliefs at the CCCB.

I really enjoyed the presentation of this godfather of free software, although it was more a religious mass rather than a lecture: Stallman talked about Free Software, Human Rights and the ideological term “piracy” (“pirates capture ships, not digital stuff”), always trying to convince the audience to switch to Linux. The exorcism-procedures included Microsoft-Bashing, Apple-Condemning and RealPlayer-Insulting.

filed under: barcelona  cccb  open source  politics  software

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paint and animate

the installation drawn by zachary lieberman uses both analogue and digital techniques to create an intuitive experience:

drawn takes us back to one of the most simple and ancient expressions of creativity: painting.
in this case, the analog process is connected to a real time digital animation system. figures drawn with pen and ink seem to take on a life of their own and interact with the hands of its creators.

filed under: ars electronica  software

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web 2.0 makes easy $$$

finally i found the perfect web 2.0 online application to make easy bucks: bullshitr is a step-by-step introduction on how to make money within the actual web-hype:

1. Devise bullshit-compliant products and services with the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™
2. Go to Brownpau’s Buzzphrase Generator for some excellent catchphrases with which to litter your site and marketing materials.
3. Name your new Web 2.0 site with Andrew Woolridge’s Web 2.0 Company Name Generator.
4. Go get yourself a snazzy logo with the Web 2.0 Logo Generator.
5. Lather, rinse, repeat.
6. ???
7. Sell your company to Yahoo!
8. Profit! †

as i followed these advices, my shiny new company will have a logo like this…

i will dedicate myself to create a fancy mashup that can be described as ‘tag-based apps via maps api’ and, based on this, i will make money spreading ‘citizen-media widgets’, due to my higher education and concerns as a media scientist student.

filed under: fun  hype  marketing  software  web

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frame by frame

die erfindung ist so simpel wie genial: der in italien lebende juan ospina hat per flash eine web-applikation entwickelt, die die erstellung kleiner (und auch längerer) animationen ermöglicht. flipbook umfasst auch eine galerie, in der sich die besten clips mit einem rating-system anschauen lassen.

filed under: animation  flash  software

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