{"id":12316,"date":"2007-04-14T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T10:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/04\/wireframes-giant-donkey-kong-and-more.html"},"modified":"2007-04-14T10:13:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T10:13:23","slug":"wireframes_giant_donkey_kong_and_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/wireframes_giant_donkey_kong_and_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireframes, giant Donkey Kong, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na\/\/ Whether or not the medium <em>is<\/em> the message, it certainly influences it.&#160; People love turning computer bits into big physical forms: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design Observer catalogs examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/021673.html\">computer GUI made real<\/a> (masking tape folders, huge scrollbars, etc.).  <\/li>\n<li>The various &quot;Web 2.0&quot; trends are imagined as a supermarket in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glumbert.com\/media\/supermarket\">this clever video.<\/a>&#160;I want to go around saying &quot;Quakr, <em>Quakrrrrr<\/em>&quot; but I think I&#8217;d get kicked out of the house.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/gunar\/2007\/04\/metadata_gone_crazy_web_20_video.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Thomas Raschke makes groovy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasraschke.de\/wireframes\/\">wireframe sculptures.<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of wireframes, British artist Benedict Radcliffe has created an amazing 1:1 scale <a href=\"http:\/\/news.windingroad.com\/etc\/wonder-woman-your-car-is-ready\u2026\/\">Subaru Impreza wireframe sculpture<\/a>.&#160; Not only is it not a Photoshop job; it apparently it even got a few parking tickets!&#160; Via John Peterson, who writes &quot;It&#8217;s s ort of an extreme example of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/07\/cursor_kite.html\">cursor-kite<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datenform.de\/map.html\">the giant red Google pushpin<\/a>.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of vehicles, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatheadv8.org\/v8bob\/carshow.htm\">life-size model car<\/a>.&#160; Having carved myself up plenty while modeling, I fear equivalently large X-Acto knives.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/04\/11\/lifesize_model_car_k.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>And finally, for those of you that love primates and\/or small Italian laborers, there&#8217;s a 4-storey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soe.ucsc.edu\/~inio\/dk\/\">Donkey Kong made from Post-It Notes<\/a>. [Via Veronique Brossier]\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na\/\/ Whether or not the medium is the message, it certainly influences it.&#160; People love turning computer bits into big physical forms: Design Observer catalogs examples of computer GUI made real (masking tape folders, huge scrollbars, etc.). The various &quot;Web 2.0&quot; trends are imagined as a supermarket in this clever video.&#160;I want to go around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}