Pinwall facade pinball marchine
Turning the front of a building (via projections) into a pinball machine. UrbanScreen
Culture jamming
Graffiti marker disguised as cigarette
I recently ordered some refillable paint pens from Art Primo, and this was in the box as a freebie. It’s the exact size, shape, and color as a cigarette, and among a dozen real cigarettes in a pack it’d likely pass any search completely unnoticed. It took me a minute to figure out its nefarious purpose: If you get caught in the vicinity of a fresh tag, after all, it’s best not to be found with a marker on your person. They’re manufactured by Germany’s On The Run, but you won’t find them on their website. The one I got was gold; the silver ones below were photographed by Flickr user $30,000.
Mud graffiti is fun, eco-friendly
I’m not cool enough to be a huge fan of graffiti, but I like Jesse Grave’s this technique of using mud stencils to temporary ‘graffiti’.
1W TV-B-Gone in a flashlight
Here’s the translation of a page about a DIY TV-B-Gone inside a flashlight/torch, looks great! [via adafruit]
You say “looks like somebody has too much time on their hands”
You say “looks like somebody has too much time on their hands”… Previously: Your time vs Jason’s time… Happy Friday, what are making this weekend?
Public staircase turned into piano keyboard
If you’re impatient with the preamble and want to see it work, scan forward to about 0:39.
TXT a beaver – Amphibious architecture
Amphibious architecture, I TXTed a beaver in the East River, neat… You can too, just text “EastRiver” or “BronxRiver” to 41411 Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface floating on the water’s surface, a veritable looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem. This manufactured point of connection submerges ubiquitous computing into the one element that covers 90% […]
