Brief Interruptions

Brynn Shepherd is a Product Designer at Facebook. This is a place for some of the interesting things she finds on the Internet.
Jul 08
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People Staring at Computers by Kyle McDonald:

I wrote a simple application that took one picture every minute. If it found a face, it uploaded the photo to my server. I installed the app around NYC over three days, collecting more than a thousand photos.

Before sharing the photos online, I decided to exhibit them in the same places they were originally captured. So I wrote another app that could be remotely triggered after being installed on all the computers in one location. When the app starts up, it takes a picture and slowly fades in that photo. A moment later, it starts cycling through older photos.