Jens and me are mainly interested in quickly changing data as a source,
so we are focusing on datastreams.

the term stream itself derives from the physical world and lets us think of
water, air, sand, moving particles in general.

today, datastreams are everywhere. flickr, rss, delicious, webradio,
youtube, iptv, you name it. since no one can really perceive all that
data, visualizing the sheer mass of information in an aesthetic way
would be the way to go.

here are some ideas:

“pixel sand”

there are many feeds supplying us with tons of photos, or movies from every
part of the world, shot by any person. flickr and livejournal are the platforms

we’d like to be at the end of the stream, transforming it into a physical form. regarding pixels as particles, we’d like to pile them up in the real world. a software would monitor the flickr stream for a certain tag, or for the whole flickr platform, read out the pixel values and drop a portion of colored sand in relation to each pixel of an image. on a large pile, or on a moving ground, both are possible, the difference is in the amount of readablity.