As Time Goes By: Locost Queue Brings Old Clocktower to Life
Locost Queue is a maker-made public art project, built from scrapped and salvaged material, and exhibited in an abandoned clocktower in Queens, NYC.
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Control a Virtual World Using Music
Arboration controls a projected landscape based on the musical input of the user.
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Snake the Planet: Gaming on Building Facades
Are the screens on your phone, computer, or TV just too small for your gaming needs? Enter Mobile Projection Unit, a group working in interactive urban projection mapping. They loaded up a van with everything needed to map out a playable video game against the facade of a building.
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Lumarca on Display at Eyebeam
Lumarca is a projection-based 3D volumetric display, which is collaboration between Albert Hwang, Matt Parker, and Elliot Woods. In 2010, they were the winners of Red Bull’s “Create the Future” contest at World Maker Faire New York. With a height of fifteen feet, the latest iteration of the Lumarca concept is the tallest yet and will be on display at Eyebeam starting tomorrow night.
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Pico Projector + Light Fixture + Free Code = Desktop Spherical Display
Sometimes, I get this feeling like I’ve seen it all – that nothing that comes along is ever going to inspire or delight me the same way that certain ideas, systems, inventions, and/or artworks did when I was younger. It always passes, sooner or later, but while I’m under that spell it can be…well, it can be a bit depressing, honestly. So I feel like I ought to thank International Man of Mystery Nirav Patel, somewhat more personally than usual, for making and sharing this wonderful thing. I am inspired.
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Watch Laughing Baby Videos Under the Stars in this YouTube Theater
This outdoor YouTube theater by Cranbrook Academy of Art student Aaron Jones was constructed with zip ties and fence piping: The structure itself is comprised of post processed chain link fence pipe selected for its inherent ability to form an interlocking system that erects in about a day. The physical manipulation of the material was […]
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Projecting Text with Lightbulbs and Magnifying Glasses
Pausations, an installation by Australian-born artist Ian Burns, uses lightbulbs and magnifying glasses to project the words onto the wall. It was on display at the Armory Show last week. [via colossal]
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