Visualising relations between water as element and water as data

Years ago when playing around with Flash, I would spend loads of time scripting small experiments that often would strike me as interesting but most of those files had no purpose what so ever but to learn from playing with it all. Those files often seamed less relevant to the commercial Flash work I was doing at the time and often was forgotten as quick as the where made. Well, once you work with a concept some of those old visual experiments might work a treat. In this case a “matrix” view of type dripping down the screen.

At college In November 2006 we got the open brief: Water. This could be anything, any media, but with a graphic outcome.
My project was a concept, design and application that utilize a live data feed, to visualise local current rain levels. The out come would be a installation projected on a wall, but it would be possible to adapt the app to any platform or device that has Flash and is online.
The final project was to be presented as A3 prints, but along with that I made a web based demo of the concept, design and also a working demo of the application. View it all here

So what happened over the last half year? A lot of work happened.
For Lego a hand full of EXO-FORCE comics, some design work for the AquaRaiders site and a redesign of Lego City to fit the new template pages for lego.com. It has been great to do more design work and less actionscript in some of these projects. I made one good oldschool feature come alive in the City site header. Setting the skyline animation to match the time on the users machine. The feedback has been great, it brings life to the site and supports the theme. It makes me smile because since the date object was introduced back in Flash 5, this was the first kind of ideas we all had back then. Yet it should take me so many years before it came in handy to apply.