What if a player piano could take requests? In the hacker/maker spirit of DIGITALKITCHEN, our team re-imagined a forgotten technology as a simple interactive experience that connects people and music and in new way. Meet Stanley. The world’s first instrument to have a conversation with its audience and field its own song requests.

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‘Stanley Case Study’ by DIGITAL KITCHEN — http://bit.ly/13ihZSL

When analog meets digital and makes beautiful music together.

For designers, after a pretty decent amount of struggle, we are just barely starting to see the acceptance of digital design as something people should care about. Almost every agency is attempting to create a digital practice, and virtually every client is investing some money into digital projects. Acceptance is slow, much slower than I ever thought it would be. We may not have reached our “Blue Monday” moment yet —but we’re getting there.

The “Blue Monday” moment… is that really a thing? It should be. BBC Synth Britannia:

Another excellent post by @robinsloan. This time, it’s on

the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the digital world and back again… 

Also known as the flip-flop. Who knew?

I would add one more excellent example of this type of flip-flop. I’ve admired the work of the extremely talented Richard Koci Hernandez (or @koci) for many years. And his recent collection of photography goes through this ingenious flip-flop process. Like me, he didn’t know it had a name.

Koci was kind enough to share with me his process and how he gets many of his images to look so analog.

  1. Shoot  photo  - digital
  2. Print out image - physical
  3. Scratch print with knife - physical
  4. Reshoot the image with iphone through and old camera viewfinder- physical/digital
  5. Post to Instagram

Similar process with these images:

Brilliant and beautiful. Check out the rest of his Flickr photostream.

The Digital Story Of The Nativity (via ExcentricPT)

OK, I’ll bite and link to it (as over 4mil already saw it). It’s cute. And it’ll make you smile. As most folks are probably going to be offline for a few days: Merry Christmas, folks!

Tilt your iPad to make Alice grow big as a house, or shrink to just six inches tall. This is Alice in Wonderland digitally remastered for the iPad. Play with the White Rabbit’s pocket watch - it realistically swings and bounces. Help Alice swim through a Pool of Tears.

A step closer to another form of interactive narratives. Love it. The sky is the limit in creating these digital pop-up books.