Don't push the button

A fun and inspiring advertising/art project I’ve been involved in (wrote the server and client software) is currently running (Mon 26 – Tue 27, 2009) at Stockholm Central station.

You push a button, the huge Satio phone replica snaps a photo and publishes it instantly on the web, also displaying it on a huge screen in the main hall.

The server is based on the Nginx HTTP push module and the client (the huge phone) is comprised of a Mac Mini, a standard USB camera, some wiring done by my brother and a simple Cocoa application I wrote which simply takes a photo from the camera, compresses it and publishes it to the server. Niclas Bergström wrote the front-end (HTML & Javascript).

A The Viral Company production.

Update: time-lapse video