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Joshua Davis and Helio articles in Wired Magazine

February 23rd, 2006 by Scott Janousek
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In the latest article of Wired (March 2006), there are 2 things that you might think are cool.

  • 1. An article on Josh Davis entitled: “The barely controlled chaos of Joshua Davis”

    Mostly about Josh and Brandon’s “generative composition machines”, which they showed last year at FITC 2005.

    I still remember Josh explaining how he got the idea for the tool website from a Super Mario brother game with the “fucking secret” door that “made him nutz for days and nights” … as he might say. Not a direct quote, but close. :)

    See the photo below for an output example of the algorithm given a set of critiera (aka stuff), Josh did for the music group tool.

    Anyways, it’s cool and I’m sure you’ve seen his work in one place or another … this is what happens when you put creative genius in touch with a creative architect.

    Hey, you know what? I have a feeling this is first time a Flash Developer has made it into Wired, please correct me if I’m wrong (added: see below for Rob’s comment).

  • 2. Helio - “Sky Dayton and the next wave of mobile cell phones”

    All about the crazy koreans, their phones, infrastructure overseas (SK telecom) … and how a handful of guys hope to jump on the MVNO ride here in the States with their company: Helio.

    If you haven’t heard of an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), it’s basically a network operator that buys minutes (infrastructure) etc from the “big guns” and resells/delivers a more customized/rich experience to their customers (typically 20-35 age group) … you can check out AMP’D and Helio.

    What’s interesting is that Helio will supposedly bundle Flash Lite as posted by Marco Casario a little way back.

    Judging from the AMP’d job posting I posted about a while back, AMPD probably does too. :)

    I’m sure you’ve seen the AMP’d commercials, as they are quite good at getting your attention. EPSN has another one (you can get scores, news, etc.). There are a couple other players in the MVNO space as well.

    Anyways, just a couple articles in Wired that you might want to check out.

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    One Response to “Joshua Davis and Helio articles in Wired Magazine”

    1. Robert M. Hall Says:

      Hey Scott, cool post. :) Actually Wired has covered Flash and Flash developers several times in the last few years, the one I remember when Lisa Delgado, a contributor to Wired, was covering FlashForward several years ago when Flash Enabled had come out. Found this Article about it, where she covered FlashForward and Phil Torrone in particular - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53687,00.html - this was one of the first big pushes of mobile stuff too - man we have come a long way in the last few years! Keep up the great posts! -Rob

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