Amon Tobin: ISAM Live in Graz
30 minutes of the live show which is an audio-visual treat.
Ultra Violet Painting of Chevrolet Made With Remote Controlled Cars
Artist Ian Cook (aka Popbangcolour) creates paintings of cars without a brush - he uses remote controlled cars and tires for effect. Video embedded below:
More info at the video’s YouTube page here
Ending Overfishing
Video short on the problems of overfishing in the EU, using data and simple triangular graphics like the image above:
Museum of Endangered Sounds
Tongue-in-cheek site features a dashboard of sounds from old technologies:
The Museum Of Endangered Sounds is owned and operated by me, Brendan Chilcutt … I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. For instance, the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it’s a wonderfully complex sound, subtle yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD players, it’s likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older machines like the HR-7100. And as new products comes to market, we stand to lose much more than VCRs.
Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone?
These questions and more led me to the undertaking that is The Museum Of Endangered Sounds.
Annie Larson Knitwear
Memphis Group inspired knitwear for that 90s look that Tumblr seems to love:
ALL Knitwear is an American knitwear label specializing in original sweater designs by Annie Larson. Each piece is designed, knit, and linked by Annie on a Brother KH-965i knitting machine and shipped to customers all over the world …
… In 2011, Urban Outfitters directly copied the designer’s work, unlawfully using one of her early apparel patterns for a stocking hat design. Beware of acrylic fakes and corporate sneaks! Thanks to all who support my work, please say hello anytime …
Work of Daniel Eatock
Online portfolio consists of photos containing apparently contradictory objects together, which then eventually lead to connections. In his own words:
“I embrace contradictions, and dilemmas. I like gray areas, oxymorons and the feeling of falling backwards”
More can be found at the artist’s website here
Trouser-Fly Light
Borderline genius / idiotic hack from Japan turns on a light when trouser flies are open.
Rare Cloud-Free Satellite Image of the UK
Taken 26/05/12
Via Dundee Satellite Receiving Station - Full resolution version can be found here
House & Bike
Blog by Christian Zander documenting his experiments with Processing, creating painterly-like abstract geometric compositions from coding.
Visual computing student archives the graphics of 80s and early 90s home computer systems
ETH Zurich student Werner Randelshofer has been archiving the digital artwork of eighties and early nineties home computer systems on the web. A master’s student in visual computing, Randelshofer has collected samples from the Amiga, Atari ST, IBM clones, and lesser-known computer systems like the British SAM Coupé.
The site I drew attention to last week is on The Verge website, with a hat-tip and a couple of GIFs I put together.
K-Pop Dancing Robots at the DSME Marine Robot Pavilion, Yeosu Expo 2012
ANIMAC
A MOCAP-like system to generate animated figures through a computer and human actor in 1966.
Taken from A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation: Analog approaches, non-linear editing, and compositing:
Perhaps one of the earliest pioneers of this analog computer animation approach was Lee Harrison III. In the early 1960s, he experimented with animating figures using analog circuits and a cathode ray tube. Ahead of his time, he rigged up a body suit with potentiometers and created the first working motion capture rig, animating 3D figures in real-time on his CRT screen. He made several short films with this system, called ANIMAC …
… It was while he was at Philco that he decided to chase his idea of systematically creating animated figures. His concept was to view a stick figure as a collection of lines that could be independently moved and positioned to form an animated character. Each of the lines would be displayed on a CRT and controlled with a vector deflection of the CRT’s electron beam. Each figure would be composed of bones, skin, joints, wrinkles, eyes, and moving lips, all drawn in sequence to create what Harrison called a “cathode ray marionette.”
Sadly, I couldn’t find any video examples of this technology (any links from the source are dead). The project was pretty much a proof-of-concept, but the knowledge from it’s development went into Scanimate, probably best known for 70’s American TV titles and The Jackson Five’s Blame It On The Boogie video.
Social Network Clock
Time-based visualization of social network activity based on bitly data, by retronator:
Today’s random idea to create a webpage: the Social Network Clock!
A few weeks back bitly posted some interesting data that hints when people use different social networks. Today’s stupid idea for not playing Minecraft all day involved creating a CSS3 time display webpage that overlays current time over the graphs published by bitly.
Tumblr is apparently the party network for evenings and weekends so cheers to you guys!
n. Information that a person does not know, but can access as needed using technology
