Shared wandering moments made for dancing under your fingers.

Create and experiment with Nink on iOS

Installer Nink beta

L’application Nink est disponible en version beta pour iPhone (sorry les Android 💞). Vous allez être dirigés vers la plateforme Testflight pour y accéder.

About Nink

What is it about ?

Nink is an experimental visual project born of the shared passions of two friends: for the aroma and poetry of everyday images, for the underground echo of memories. For leaning against the windows that witnessed these moments being lived, imagined; for feeling the wind that blew then. We feel fascinated by the freedom of choosing the tempo these moments dance to and blend together in our minds. We long to grasp the blurred shape of a runaway thought – through pictures.

A mobile app as media

A few years ago, we initially meant to build on these ideas to produce printed creations from videos, including flipbooks, so as to offer our users control over the framerate of these moments within their hands, through a material object.

Later on, because making apps is what we do, we felt like creating one to seize, mix, and delve more easily into these images. Through touch-technology, to have the ability to decompose these moments between our fingers.

For now, the app allows its users to capture, watch, and anonymously share short visual sequences, which are sometimes abstract, sometimes raw, and which can be superimposed atop each other. It then becomes possible to collect these moments, to blend them, or to browse and access the creations of anyone, by chance.

We see this project as collaborative and collective, although detached by the anonymous publication process from the individuals who may share these images. It is a bridgeway into seemingly lost moments, a form of collective intimacy, a dream we could have had.

Further along, we will probably return to our initial ambitions of printed formats and other media, depending on the content our community ends up creating.

If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch!

Acknowledgements

To Mike, for working with us on the first versions, and for testing a couple of crazy prototypes. To Ben, for developing our website.

To all the peeps we could ramble on about our technical and human hardships, but mostly, to all the ones talking with excitement about the project.

To Dalva and Nina, for their English translations of prime quality.

And to all our beta testers, for taking the plunge in the Nink sphere and sharing their feedback,

Thank you.