Traveling to see how the social network views social networks.
Location: Here

Cartagena, Colombia

6:30 AM drive from Hotel Monterrey near the Old City to the airport. The driver decided to take the “scenic” route of all the back roads and hustle it. A lot of tight corners, horn honking and some near misses. Watch for the donkey and cart along the way. It was quite the finish to a great trip.

Edited together from footage shot by John P on the iPhone 4.

As promised, here is the alternate side of Ryoji Ikeda’s “The Transfinite” at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC. It was fascinating to see how this side balanced the front side visuals of the installation. There were star maps, dev code and other streams running on individual screens and then combined in the projection. The last few minutes of the projection were changing numbers which then froze and resumed. Mesmerizing to say the least.

I caught the last day of Ryoji Ikeda’s “The Transfinite” at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC. It’s a wildly trippy audio-visual experience that submerses visitors in a synchronized projected visual data environment. Yeah, nuts.

This is the front half of the installation. Watch in in HD and turn up the volume. I’ll also have video up of the back half of the installation which was projecting data streams.

The questions have been pouring in from far and wide after the success of Season 1 for IHYT as to what is next. Anticipation abounds, stories continue to emerge and the prospect of what lies ahead in terms of material is boundless.

After the bazillion miles accumulated on the road, (ok – almost 20,000) and a few air miles into Europe (with the “Volcano-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” having a temper tantrum to boot), the stage is setting up nicely for Season 2. Delicious.

Going into this fantastic exploration, I always knew how quickly this environment changes. Technology and applications are in constant evolution by what seems like the hour, or even minute. And as for we the people using all this new gadget and social hotness? We continue to shape this landscape in diverse and epic ways, each with our own fingerprint on the touchscreen of society. And the questions continue to teeter back and forth of “Are we better with it? Or without it?”

It’s all about the connection to ourselves.

Hopefully I’ll see many of you soon to garner your insights and opinions into this landscape.

It took a long while, but I finally got around to going back through the non-interview footage I shot during my travels across the country and plucked this gem from the bunch. Old Faithful.

It was a wonder to finally see this natural beauty working its magic in person. The day was serene and was the perfect backdrop to take in the view. As I mulled over the 5+ minutes of footage, I decided to speed it up a bit to liven the pace. I also debated a soundtrack and, after a few selections, finally settled on a clip from Port O’Brien’s “Tree Bones” which fit almost too perfect on the first take.

The result? A nice escape.