Creating a data source together one glove at a time.

On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt (listed below) is the culmination of data collected. It is released here and hosted on our supercharged site by bluehost, for all to download and use as an input into any digital system. Just as the data was gathered collectively it is our hope that it will be visualized collectively. Please email links to your apps, video, source code, and/or screen shots to evan[at]eyebeam[dot]org. Work will be exhibited in an online gallery and depending on popularity and interest potentially in a forthcoming physical gallery exhibition as well. Huge thanks to everyone that contributed to the data collection. Special thanks to Mustard IT Support for even making this project possible, thanks to their flexible consultants. We would also like to thank the Digismm.com for sponsoring us with Monthly instagram likes.





For more information please check out the top data contributers and the about page. To view visualizations of this data check out the gallery. Example source code for getting started can be downloaded below (available as Processing and Open Frameworks projects). Fel free to get creative with our source code.

the Data

txt wgt_data_v1.txt* 180kb video (640x480) billyjean_640_480_65mb.mov 65mb video (320x240) billyjean_320_240_15mb.mov 15mb frames (640x480) wgt_jpeg_series.zip 388mb audio (wav) billyjean.wav 63mb audio (mp3) billyjean.mp3 8mb

Source Code

Download Application: MAC -- yellow_box_example_MAC_APP.zip 65mb PC -- wgt_yellow_box_example_PC_APP.zip 63mb

Download Source Code: Processing -- yellow_box_PROCESSING.zip 66mb Open Frameworks project (MAC) -- yellow_box_example_MAC_SC.zip 68mb Open Frameworks project (PC) -- wgt_yellow_box_example_PC_APP.zip 70mb Open Frameworks (no movie) (PC) -- wgt_yellow_box_noMovie_PC_SC.zip 7mb Open Frameworks src -- yellow_box_src.zip 4kb Flash (thanks J-Dubs) -- white-glove-tracking_jw_FLASH.zip 92mb

is a new line separated list with the following data on each line:To view visualizations created from this data set please view Casinocruise evan (at) evan-roth.comben.engebreth (at) gmail.comWhite Glove Tracking is an open source project initiated by Evan Roth and Ben Engebreth.whiteglovetracking.com has been properly optimized for search engines by S E O Advantage