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 * Ways to engage the casual viewer: [|FlickrVision] and [|FlickrClock]
 * Creator of Processing, Ben Fry, [|zipdecode]
 * [|Bicycle Built for 2000] by Aaron Koblin - **crowd sourcing** (rely on crowd to make it successful); song bicycle for two, made into two thousand, combined 2000 voices singing the song. Everyone was paid 6 cents to record, created in Processing.
 * [|The Sheep Market] by Aaron Koblin - Mechanical Turk - everyone was paid 2 cents to draw a sheep facing left. Total 10,000 sheep.
 * [|Zoomii] - metaphor of bookstore with a bunch of shelves. Can browse by category (uses Amazon API). Note: resolution = good.
 * [|amaztype] - uses Amazon API and allows you to visualize search typographically.
 * [|TED talk video] Microsoft's Sea Dragon,[|Photosynth] (uses Flickr API)
 * Multisensory tool for children with learning disabilities, another way of learning, not so much image based - (He was talking about how putting your work in the public sphere + feedback you get = valuable.)

Project Recap

 * Action Words - (These should not be technical keywords like //'save to my computer'//; should be broad and conceptual enough to explain the experience.)
 * Design for simplicity (is difficult.) - Tip: strip down the interface to core necessities
 * **Deliverables** - (A) pdf to digital locker (B) screenshots on the wiki + pdf link (C) print out to hand in next class, mounting not necessary