July 2009
28 posts
Building Projection Round-Up →
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot projects involving the projection of video onto architectural structures. The most interesting of these are films that actually take…
Toyota Humanoid Can Outrun ASIMO →
The standard for full size, free running humanoids has been Honda’s ASIMO pretty much forever. Toyota’s partner robot humanoids, who have already displayed multiple talents including …
401 – What’s On Earth Tonight? →
The first tv images of World War II are about to hit Aldebaran star system, 65 light years [ly] away. If there’s anybody out there alive and with eyes to see it, the barrage of actual…
Alan Bean →
You will sometimes hear people argue about the most important events in human history — the discovery of fire, the wheel or the printing press, the first cave paintings, or, in a longer view,…
MTV International / Mister Furry →
DA CHIP! →
The music of Daft Punk revisited on vintage Game Systems!
Theo Ellsworth’s Imaginary Friends →
Theo Ellsworth makes obsessively detailed drawings and self-publishes comics, mini comics, and zines about imaginary people and places. The cosmic imagery, subtle geometry, and implied…
"Trouble in Paradise" at Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo →
“Oil pumps in the penguin pen, toxic waste in the aquarium and abandoned cars in the rhino enclosure,” writes Green Muze. “Austrian artists Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf have turned…
Vocal Album Grid →
Illinois: Visualizing Music is a project by graphic designer Jax de Léon, he analyzed the ablum Illinois by Sufjan Stevens in 9 different ways and visualised his findings. The Vocal Album Grid is…
Elna Frederick →
I’m completely blown away by the internet art of Elna Frederick. These are not just weird static images but javascript animations. Man I love the internet.
found at Rhizome
Awesome Retro Robots Revealed In Japan →
I don’t speak any Japanese, so unfortunately I’ve only been able to understand little snippets of information, but according to an article on Robot Watch, an autonomy of robots (yeah, I’m…