Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He’s just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can’t write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns instead to his fantasies — moonlighting as a private detective — because he wants to be a hero and a man of action.
While it may look like another cool application running on the Microsoft Surface table, it’s something very different.
The girl in the video clip is using nothing but grains of sand to draw these amazing animations in front of a live audience. Her canvas is simply a backlighted glass table connected to a projector, not a multi-touch enabled Surface computer.
