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We just put the wieden + kennedy london xmas window live - The christmas card making machine.

It is an interactive installation in our office window where your face gets motion tracked in realtime onto one of 12 slightly bizarre xmas characters. The website then lets you find your face and create a personal christmas card around it.

The face tracking system was written by Joel Gethin Lewis (ex UVA) and written in open frameworks. The behind the scenes system is actually very funny to watch as you see peoples reactions to the window. Overall it is a very simple system which I’m really proud to have helped bring together. Come on down and have a go.

For three evenings in October, a new interactive smoky communication will be underway in central London - one that combines a very modern medium with a 5,000-year-old one. In Memory Cloud, visitors can text any message they like to the artists’ creation, and that phone message will be made into light-and-air smoke signals and huge in Trafalgar Square. This new exploration of personal expression in public spaces is from Minimaforms, founded in 2002 by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos as an experimental architecture and design practice that explores projects that provoke and facilitate new means of communication.

http://www.minimaforms.com/memorycloud/