> From: Daniel Shiffman
\n> Date: March 9, 2009 9:48:05 AM EDT
\n> To: Midori Yasuda
\n> Subject: IPhone Dev Opportunity
\n>
\n> Here is a call from someone I know in Montreal. This is a paid
\n> opportunity, although that may not be explicitly clear from the
\n> description below.
\n>
\n> —————-<\/p>\n
> Phone App – The ‘Neonagram’ Game (Matt Soar, Concordia University,
\n> Montreal)
\n>
\n> My ongoing research project is all about signs in the city
\n> . The idea for this iPhone app is to take a photo
\n> of one particularly prominent, flashing neon sign in Montreal that’s
\n> been around since 1948 in various versions
\n> , and turn it
\n> into an interactive anagram game; ideally, the user could then save
\n> the results and upload them to, say, Flickr, via her\/his iPhone. I
\n> have already built the basic idea in Flash
\n> , and had some fun
\n> responses ,
\n> but that’s my limit. The sign says “Farine Five Roses”. (Farine is
\n> French for flour.)
\n>
\n> I’m going live soon with an extensive participatory art project
\n> focused exclusively on this sign, and I think an iPhone app along
\n> these lines would be a terrific way to draw people in (and ultimately
\n> highlight the cultural\/historical importance of old signs, cf the
\n> Pepsi sign in Long Island City). The sign looks fabulous as it flashes
\n> on and off at night (see the attached Flash simulation), and it’s
\n> actually double-sided, so there are actually 30 of those (15′ high)
\n> letters. Perhaps when the user shakes the iPhone, all 30 letters ‘fall
\n> off’ their scaffold and float to the bottom of the screen (in
\n> alphabetical order?), ready to be selectively slid back onto the
\n> scaffold to make a new message. Perhaps the letters could keep
\n> flashing on and off even while they’re waiting to be used in an
\n> anagram, or maybe the letters only begin to flash once a new anagram
\n> has been confirmed\/saved. I’m also very open to other ideas. Finally,
\n> I would like it to be a free app, with minimal language; whatever is
\n> there needs to be in French and English. (I can help with this.)<\/p>\n
Contact:
\nMatt Soar <\/p>\n
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