The interface of Plinko Poetry uses Processing to display alternate scrolling lines of current tweets from the New York Times and Fox News. When a user drops a chip, it randomly hits pegs on the way down. The word under each peg that is hit is highlighted, with the untouched pegs automatically darkened. Plinko Poetry uses openFrameworks camera color tracking to determine which pegs have been encountered. When the chip comes to a stop, the user is left with a trail of blackout poetry which is then live tweeted to @PlinkoPoetry.

Ultimately users will create a new corpus of ever changing poetic text based on the zeitgeist of current headlines.

The Method of Loci is an ancient Roman memory technique in which one uses his or her imagination to place images along a familiar path as a way to remember a sequence of things or ideas. Loci re-imagines this technique within the framework made possible by location aware technologies, to create a learning platform for the urban experience.

Have something you wish to remember? Enter it into the application along a path on a map, and begin the walk. As you reach your locations, what you want to remember, along with dynamically generated mnemonic devices, images, audio, and video, will appear.