Max Kiesler - Designer, SOMA San Franciso

The Sheep Market While this isn't a new project it is one worth looking at. "The sheep market is a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Each worker was paid $.02 (US) to draw a sheep facing left." You can also purchase the sheep through the site or email them to a friend. I'm not sure if any were actually sold but the idea of art and commerce is always a nice idea. The project was created by Aeron Koblin in 2006 with flash.
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Moodstream - Media Explorer When I first opened Moodstream I was excited. There marketing statement said, "Moodstream is a powerful brainstorming tool designed to help take you in inspiring, unexpected directions." As a designer, I'm always looking for tools to help me find the media I need for current projects. While the interaction looked fine at first, as I started using the application there were functions I felt I needed that were missing. You are presented with images, media and audio, however, there is no way to show just one media type. If I only want to be inspired by images I have to sit though all of the video snips to get to the next image. Next, the control box took up a great deal of above-the-fold space. While you can pause the presentation there is no way to stop and go back one or two images. You just have to wait for all of them to cycle through. On pause, a backbutton would have been very helpful. The core feature of finding media related to mood is a great idea, and Moodstream is a good start, however, it would nice to see some improvements to the UI.
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