Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]

[logn]

"After 50 years of pointing and clicking, we are celebrating the nearing end of the computer cursor with a music video where all our cursors can be seen together for one last time."

I don't see any way the cursor dies without the keyboard dying. And I don't see the keyboard dying. Just because tech bloggers and journalists are incapable of writing about any hardware besides tablets and phones doesn't mean that's all we (will) use.

[sliverstorm]

Haven't you heard, the mouse & keyboard has been dying for the last forty years. Much the same as it has been "The year of Linux on the desktop" for the last twenty-two.

[mapleoin]

I don't see why the mouse should be tied to the keyboard. They're used for different purposes. We use mice to point stuff in a specific place on the screen. It would be much faster to do that by just putting your finger on the screen (and more intuitive, since we already use our fingers like that). I think the time it takes for my hand to move from the keyboard to the mouse is about equal than it would take to move it to the screen.

[Kaivo]

I removed the mouse from my desktop so that I better learn my keyboard shortcut and eventually get faster. Also, I find using a mouse annoying.

[stordoff]

This site also makes interesting use of the Javascript console. Viewable here if you can't see it for any reason: http://pastebin.ca/2359993

[egypturnash]

"We are a design & development studio based in Amsterdam. And by we, I mean Jonathan Puckey, Roel Wouters & Luna Maurer."

Oh hey, that's one of the people who was involved in the late lamented Scriptographer[1] plugin for Illustrator.

[1]: http://scriptographer.org

[ChrisNorstrom]

For the first time in my life, I felt as part of a human ant colony. I'm also proud to see other people admit they're asexual during the "Which do you prefer" question with a male on side and a female on the other. A small percentage of arrows flocked to the center in between them... Or maybe that means they were bi... :(

[sliverstorm]

I'd expect an asexual individual would not be "undecided" between the two, but "indifferent", and thus their mouse could be anywhere.

[rodly]

To whoever owns this : If you remove the NSFW bit you will probably get at least 200% more traffic if not more. I almost shared this on Facebook, but for obvious reasons don't want my mother and younger friends seeing this content on my behalf.

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Aside, that was really fun and I laughed quite a few times.

[epaga]

Actually, by now (1 hour later) it's no longer NSFW I'd say - enough cursors cover the naughty bits up so it's a bikini of cursors... :)

[baby]

I personally don't see that as NSFW. Well, it is not safe for WORK, but not in the sense you're saying it is : I'd have no problem showing that to my mother or younger people. What part is NSFM (not safe for mum) for you?

[jstanley]

Doesn't work for me. Just "NOW LOADING CROWD-SOURCED MUSIC VIDEO".

EDIT: Chromium 25, Ubuntu.

[shared4you]

I had Flash block and "do not run plugins" enabled. Turn on flash & boom! Ubuntu 12.10, Chrome.

[goostavos]

Tried firefox, and chrome.. no luck for me either :( the music plays, and the next updates, but the rest is just black screen.

[spizzo]

I'm running firefox on mint and it worked; it just takes a long time to load. Maybe just give it a minute and/or try reloading.

[JamesLeonis]

It didn't work for me at first in Chrome. Reloading the page fixed the problem.

[MattBearman]

This is really amazing, great idea and really well executed.

I know it kinda goes against the whole idea of this, but I think it would have been better if the mouse cursors that didn't "obey" the instructions were filtered out, all the cursors that just stayed in one place, or didn't follow the instructions were a little distracting.

[Zecc]

It won't even by necessary to completely remove them. They could just turn down the cursors' opacity proportional to how off they are.

[fudged71]

That was my favorite part :-( I liked seeing the individualism

[alternize]

apparently, the video is re-rendered on a regular basis containing the flock of mouse pointers:

  We composite the music video with the latest pointers every 30 minutes orso.
  For that we use Node.js & FFMPEG

[daigoba66]

There is one shot that has a small yellow disc. I guess after many iterations people with their mouse pointers have drawn on it a smiley face. That is pretty neat.

[susi22]

So if it's just a video. How does the "avoid each other" work?

[hackmiester]

I can't get it to move past this... http://puu.sh/2ATlK

I have a computer with a touch screen, but I'm not using it. It happens in Firefox and Chrome.

[barbs]

Awww, not working for me either. It seems to be frozen on a screen showing lots of cursors that aren't moving anywhere. Shame, looks like it's a really cool idea.

[grimtrigger]

Too bad its NSFW. One of those things I'd love to forward around.

Overall, awesome concept.

[jiggy2011]

It's got a few naked breasts in it, and they are mostly covered with mouse pointers now.

Are many people legitimately shocked by that sort of content in 2013?

[iso-8859-1]

> Too bad its NSFW.

Too bad it's not safe for your work place :) (maybe that was what you meant). I don't see any reason to sacrifice expression for prudes.

[looki]

That part takes like 5 seconds and other mouse pointers actually cover the... parts that make it NSFW.

[ajanuary]

I notice a mix of OS X and Windows style cursors. Presumably it's actually detecting your OS.

[JeremyBanks]

http://vimeo.com/62252536

This seems to be a previously-rendered copy of the video. It actually plays, but lacks the instructions overlayed on the actual site.

[feniv]

I wish the past-cursors were just rendered as dots because the barrage of pointers made it hard to keep track of my own mouse cursor (even with the larger size and contrast).

[nemrow]

I love these kind of projects! Keep up the "point"-less work! :)

[maaaats]

They said avoid the model, not cover her! :)

[alternize]

awesome idea! there's even an easter egg hidden in the code: open the javascript console after the page was loaded _for the first time_ :)

[Le_SDT]

Was fun but the NSFW part is ... too much

[FramesPerSushi]

Is it really? I find that sad. I thought by 2013 we'd grown out of that.

[Pwntastic]

nsfw...

[hcarvalhoalves]

This is art.

[xmpir]

this is SO great!

[aggronn]

I missed the latter part of the title. Can we have NSFW stuff labeled at the beginning of the title since they're so uncommon and unexpected?

[devindotcom]

This seems unreasonable to me. I think we can safely hold people responsible for reading to the end of a seven-word sentence.