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art mix Flower Web
(Matsuyama, Japan)
http://www.kiss-jp.com/flower/

This Web site is produced by Yoshinori Takechi, who lives in Matsuyama. Matsuyama was the home of Japanese traditional poet Shiki Masaoka. The site features floral photography by Yoshinori and his friends. However, the site is more than a cyber-gallery. art mix Flower Web encourages artistic creation, and serves as a seed for new flowers to blossom on the Web. Inspired by the flowers, visitors can add poems, create artwork via pictorial data processing, or add links to other sites. You might refer to the site as a flower picker! The site has much in common with the linked senses of sensorium. (Linked senses is an intelligent collaboration, adapted from a Japanese traditional poetic form known as renga. ) In summer, the sunflower, in autumn, Higanbana: We appreciate the change of seasons on the Web. (In Japanese and English.)




THE COMET HALE-BOPP HOME PAGE
(Anaheim, U.S.A.)
http://www.halebopp.com/index.html

This site features the Hale-Bopp comet, which was discovered in 1995. The site was created by Russell Sipe, a digital publisher who also founded Computer Gaming World magazine. The co-discoverers of the huge comet, Alan Hale and Tom Bopp, also contributed to the site. As we view 3-D images of the comet's orbit, or photographs and animated images of the comet itself, we can hardly wait to see the comet's brightest appearance -- scheduled for spring 1997. Even at this moment, the comet is approaching earth. This site has exquisite details for example, dialog from Star Trek and lyrics from Christmas Carols. Other interesting topics, such as a Saturn-like companion to the Hale-Bopp comet are also included. (English)




Earth View
(near Neuchatel, Switzerland)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/

Now you can view the Earth as seen from the moon at Earth View. If you can view your locale on the globe at the site -- wherever you live in the world -- you can see the moon in the sky. We think John Walker, the creator of this site, never lost his childhood imagination even though he is the successful founder of a company, Autodesk. The site includes Solar System Live, through which you can view the current movement of the solar system, and Terranova, whereby participants create a new planet. In addition, the sites offers volumes of text and shareware, as well as documents related to mine removal and business utilities. (In English.)




The Electric Postcard
(Boston, USA)
http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/

This is a cute e-mail tool created by MIT's Media Lab that serves as a Web post office box (POB) for customized mailing services. The visitor can mail postcards as one might with snail mail, and the receiving party gets mail that reads "A postcard for you is held in the POB." The card can be picked up at the Postcard Rack. The postcards feature masterpieces from Da Vinci to Hockney, as well as 1960s pop photos. You don't receive the cards like e-mail. It's like you went to the post office to get mail in the old days; that's fun. Visitors may also register their favorite images at the site.(In English.)




Mawson Station, Antarctica
(Tasmania, Australia)
http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html

The Antarctic, as well as the Arctic, might well be the most special regions on the globe. Antarctica is the least polluted continent -- probably owing to its absence of permanent human residents -- although recent problems with the ozone layer threaten to harm it.
This web site is a peep-hole site featuring views from Mawson Station. The experimental site is produced and run by Scott Anderson of the Australian Antarctic Division. The Antarctic images are updated every hour, and weather information is updated roughly every 10 minites.
The northern hemisphere is currently experiencing winter, but it is summer in the southern hemisphere. Therefore, you can view the long hours of daylight in Antarctica at this site. Or you might come across penguins and seals. However, you must stretch your imagination to feel the harsh weather conditions. (English)




Neighbor Search
(Tokyo, Japan)
http://www.isr.recruit.co.jp/~yamamoto/GKJ/

This is a participatory site where visitors register their addresses and birthplaces. Takashi Yamamoto, who works for Recruit Co., Ltd, started it years ago. The number of colored dots, which represent addresses and birthplaces, on the white map are steadily increasing. You can enjoy comments from other visitors or jump to their home pages. Or check out who lives near you and how many participants hail from each prefecture; it's simple and it's fun. The Internet enables us to span great distances instantly, and we sometimes forget about those closest to us. Neighbor Search features a breakdown by prefecture in Japan and of Japanese living in the United States. We hope this site expands worldwide. (In Japanese.)




SFC Mt. Fuji Server
(Fujisawa, Japan)
http://www.flab.mag.keio.ac.jp/

The SFC Mt. Fuji Server, produced by Masaki Fujihata Lab of the Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) at Keio University, differs from traditional peephole sites. Normally people use the Internet infrastructure to obtain information, but this site serves as a tool to extend the visitor's nervous system. Fujihata Lab is preparing Moon Server, a trial site that will provide a solid view of the moon using the parallax principle. To provide the view, they are planning to set telescopes connected to the Internet on the northern and southern hemispheres. Also planned is the Global Clock Project, an on-line world clock featuring optical sensors throughout the world. We are looking forward to seeing both. (In Japanese and English.)




Trojan Room Coffee Machine
(Cambridge, UK)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

Probably one of the oldest peephole sites on the Internet, the Trojan Room Coffee Machine is just that -- a coffee pot in the Trojan Room at Cambridge University. If you took major media such as TV, radio, or an on-line magazine as a blockbuster movie or a theme park, this coffee pot might be an 8mm or 16mm film, or your neighbor's backyard. Despite its simplicity, we find this coffee pot enjoyable and representative of the potential future of the Net. Why do we feel so happy when we occasionally drop into the distant site to see coffee filling a pot or being poured into a mug? (In English.)




sensorium
(Tokyo, Japan)
http://park.org/Japan/Theme/





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