From Parsons Design and Technology in NYC: An exhibition of interactive installations, mobile and web-based platforms, games, product designs, and time-based media will be on view in Kellen Gallery through May 23 and explore the uses of analog and digital media. Alongside the exhibition, students and design practitioners will lead a series of panel discussions […]
Maurice Connolly built a 300 lb steel sculpture and dropped it off a cliff. He pitted his art against gravity, just to see what would happen. The piece is a massive sphere called Ganymede- constructed from recycled wine barrel hoops and hundreds and hundreds of bolts. Once Maurice mastered the material and perfected the form, […]
Very clever viral vid from director Dulcidio Caldeira for MTV Brazil. The balloons are mounted on a track. A cart bearing a camera and a sharp pin starts rolling at one end, filming and popping as it goes. Each balloon has a single frame of the animation hand-drawn on its surface. Looks like they may have stopped it a couple times to clear balloon bits from the lens.
…is just one of almost a thousand beautiful moments captured as high-speed photographs in Flickr user Alan Sailer’s photostream. I recommend starting with his “My Favorites” set.
Is this the world’s first Robot Film Festival? I think so! The deadline to submit a film is June 5th. So if you have a robot and a video camera, now is your robot’s chance to walk (or roll) down the red carpet in New York City! Please submit your outstanding, dazzling, hilarious or thought-provoking […]
Babycastle’s hacked video games at Signal to Noise #1 – photo by Wendy Moger Bross Signal to Noise returns to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NYC, this Saturday, May 7, with many installations converting electricity into visual and aural stimulation. You’ll encounter hacked Gameboy 8-bit bands (Bubblyfish), augmented reality game shows (The […]
Brooklyn artist Daniel Bejar made a copy of the key to his apartment (hopefully not his current one, because there’s software out there that can reverse-engineer it from the photograph). Then he made a copy of the copy. And then he repeated the process, by my count, 67 times. At which point the copy was an uncut blank. It’s kind of like I Am Sitting In a Room, but with keys. [via Boing Boing]
