Giant hand torments city goers
Here’s an excellent use for a giant LED billboard: a crazy augmented reality installation. The appropriately titled Hands From Above was made by artist Chris O’Shea.
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Fantasy cartography forum
Cartographer’s Guild is a thriving online community for folks who are interested in making maps of places that do not exist. There are some really beautiful graphics to be found, particularly, in their Cartographer’s Choice forum. Shown at the top of the post is Sapiento’s Post Apocalyptic Amerika, and immediately above is töff’s Map of Ceres: 16th Millenium.
Photoshop on the iPhone
Adobe has released a version of their Photoshop.com Mobile app for the iPhone. It’s not the full-featured professional software known for it’s reality altering effects, but rather a slimmed-down version compatible with their photoshop.com service.
Bullet impacts at 1,000,000 frames per second
I’m not entirely sure who made this video. I have this strange intuition it might be someone named “Werner Mehl,” and that the video might be copyright 2009, and….somehow, that Werner’s website is probably www.kurzzeit.com. Isn’t it weird how sometimes stuff just comes to you?
“Golem,” by Randis Albion
I really love this illustration (“Golem”) by Randis Albion (Andre Weiss) of brainy kids summoning a tectonic entity made of toys. It’s the details that make Albion’s work: The nervous look of the ravens outside the window, the fact that the wizard-child is in a wheelchair. His website is NSFW by some folks’ standards, I suppose, but well worth the click.
Twins from “The Shining” projection
s this rightly called a “hologram?” Either way, it’s pretty sweet. David Hartig of Santa Clara took a short video clip of his daughter in creepy makeup and an Alice-in-Wonderland costume, mirrored her image, and projected it onto some cardboard cutouts draped in muslin. “Come and play with us, Danny….”
Bokode at Home
Fascinated by MIT’s Bokode data tag system, maker Matthew Borgatti decided to recreate the effect at home using easy to find materials.
