Brian Kiel

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• Phenomblue – “Daydreamer” digital installation (Kinect)

  Using the Microsoft Kinect for sensor input, Adobe AIR for display, and a number of open-source drivers/frameworks for everything in-between, Daydreamer was a digital installation project that allowed the user to create music and visuals through moving their bodies. Along with the previously mentioned tools, I also utilized NITE & OpenNI (for Kinect data parsing), […]

• Sony Playstation – Jak II: “This is Jak’s World”

  Rich media with an in-ad game promoting the new Jak II Sony Playstation game.

• Morrissey Engineering – Live solar output updates

  Realtime dashboard for Morrissey Engineering which reflects current status of solar panels & external conditions.  Data is retrieved from proprietary solar panel API & cached via PHP & mySQL… and from there, served to the website widget(s) Link to current site: http://www.morrisseyengineering.com/live-solar-output/

• eBay Motors – Motors Mashup Unit

  A dynamic display ad that took data from the eBay Motors API and displayed said data using the Yahoo Maps API.  Geotargeting was used in ad trafficking, allowing the map to initialize at the user’s approximate location. + System architecture + public & private API integration + Flash development

• AS3 library to interface with Xbox’s Kinect – my new time-suckage

  I have a new source of time-suckage, and its name is the Kinect. Back in December, someone hacked Microsoft’s Kinect.. allowing computers to interface and receive raw data from the full-body motion/gesture sensing device. A week or two ago, in early January, another group created an AS3 solution. The solution consists of a command-line socket […]

• Nissan – “Future Z” microsite

  In the early 2000’s, Nissan was set to relaunch its fabled “Z” model. Chiat was tasked with creating the microsite to build buzz and provide enthusiasts with a few tasty media bits prior to the launch of the 350Z. Link to archived site here. + Flash development

• RandomHours

  The successor to 58hours.  Where 58hours was devoted solely to Radiohead (and coded according to the single-band premise), randomhours is able to handle data for countless bands.  I basically took everything that I’d learned about data-organization

• Sony Qualia – site

  A website for Sony’s upscale boutique brand of home electronics.

• Nike – Holiday 2009 “Chaser”

  Nike’s rich media ad for the 2009 holiday season.

• Ask.com – In-banner Pinball game

  It looks a little chintzy, but YOU try fitting a physics engine, sound AND good graphics into a non-rich media ad. Final ad size fit nicely under the 40k limit… coming in at a svelte 37k