February 2010
40 posts
weblimp →
More than just a toy, we blimp is a crowd controlled flying airship that places the user inside the blimp through a remote camera. users are placed in front of a display that is connected to the blimp’s video camera and control the flying motion with a remote control. the project was created by students brian quan, andrew thong, nathan waddington and anna wu to explore the concept of crowd...
Stomachache →
Since 2004, alternative healthcare practitioners have suggested Mazzalupo keep daily journals listing her food intake and bodily symptoms. For her exhibition Stomachache, now on view at Mixed Greens Gallery in New York, she has translated that documentation into eight drawings, one for every week leading up to her milestone 40th birthday.
WatchMimeo Demo
Swarm of Micro-Helicopters Could Create a Giant... →
Mechanical fireflies could help create a new kind of 3-D display, say researchers at MIT. Standing in for the bioluminescent beetles will be LED-fitted, remotely controlled micro-helicopters that can be choreographed electronically to display shapes and images as they hover in midair. The project, called Flyfire, would use RC helicopters similar to the toys sold at the mall today.
Watchonedotzero video case history
Johnny Kelly →
London based animator and illustrator, Johnny Kelly, has an impressive body of work. This particular image, from his short animation The Seed, depicts the journey of an apple seed through its natural cycle of life. The Seed features stop motion and 2D animation, with faceted paper cut forms, vibrant colors, and a lot of attention to detail.
Laptop Reflections →
“…for 9 months, starting in April 2009, our laptops took a portrait photo through the built in webcam and a screenshot of our desktops every 5 minutes while we were using it.”
WatchThe Body, The Circuit, The Computer and The Voice: robot cowboy
RFID Radios by Matt Brown | Design Milk →
These laser cut radios by Matt Brown are systems that use radio-frequency identification speakers and chips to provide people with a better connection to the artists they choose to listen to. When the paper RFID radio is placed over a speaker with an RFID reader, the radio station is changed. The radios Matt Brown designed can also be sculptures (which is very fitting because they look really...
How to Take Portraits →
People sometimes ask how master photographers take portraits, and when you ask them they often do such a lousy job explaining how it works. Thankfully, there is Franz Fiedler’s Portrait Photography (1934, I just bought the English language version, published in 1936) that tells you how it all works. Here are some excerpts.
Pixel by SportsBabel →
Sports card stunts and their relation to pixels. (via Serial Consign)
Air & RjDj Spread The Reactive Music Love →
Just in time for Valentines Day, RJDJ has partnered with the French music duo Air to launch a new application, Love by Air (App Store link) that creates reactive music, based on their single Love.
Air, made up of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, worked with RJDJ to create five, real-time “soundscapes” that enable fans to listen to Love in a new way, as an exclusive app only version.
Vans and the places where they were →
WatchAdobe Illustrator Time-Lapse Video on Vimeo
The real voyage of discovery consists not in... →
Paintings by John McLaughlin
Title: Proust Related: Carmen Herrera, Karl Benjamin, Josef Albers Atley
Assemblee Competition: Results! →
The results of the Assemblee Competition are in! The winner of Part Two is Ivan Safrin for Bitworld, a really slick action-oriented roguelike that was made in Ivan’s own development…
Kenneth Noland (1924 – 2010) →
Like Ellie, I’m feeling the geometry love today. Maybe it was all those tasty rhombi…
I was originally going to write about Andy Gilmore, who is a damn talented illustrator with a…