prosthetic knowledge

3Doodler 

In case you missed this the past couple of days, an impressive handheld 3D printing pen, allowing to draw in three dimensions. Video embedded below:

Have you ever just wished you could lift your pen off the paper and see your drawing become a real three dimensional object? Well now you can!

3Doodler is the world’s first and only 3D Printing Pen. Using ABS plastic (the material used by many 3D printers), 3Doodler draws in the air or on surfaces. It’s compact and easy to use, and requires no software or computers. You just plug it into a power socket and can start drawing anything within minutes.

Oh, and it’s also the most affordable way to 3D print… by a looong way! With 3Doodler we’re making fun 3D creation accessible to everyone.

You can find out more at the project’s Kickstarter page here

How to bypass the 140 character limit on Twitter with iOS Devices

Clouds 

A Kickstarter funding project to create an interactive documentary of contemporary computer artists:

Over the last year we have captured interviews with over 30 new media artists, curators, designers, and critics, using a new 3D cinema format called RGBD. CLOUDS presents a generative portrait of this digital arts community in a videogame-like environment. The artists inhabit a shared space with their code-based creations, allowing you to follow your curiosity through a network of stories. What does it feel like to think with code? How can emerging technologies enable us to actualize our dreams? How has online sharing transformed the way artists collaborate?

More about this interesting project can be found at it’s Kickstarter page here

Mixing Digital Sculpture With Real Objects 

Demonstration by Greg Petchkovsky on using current technology creatively, making objects designed on a computer to be placed in the real world. There are a couple more examples of this technique other than the one pictured above:

A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints from Greg Petchkovsky on Vimeo.

Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Web Toys 

In this submission, a collection of online projects to play around with, such as remixing Google Maps Streetview photos that become ASCII art or Little World fish-eye panoramas, draw with text, or remix images with animated emoticons.

You can find out more at Rhizome here

Pumpktris 

Playable electronic Tetris game cased inside a real pumpkin, with perforations and LEDs as pixels:

More about how and why it was but together at HaHa Bird:

One of my habits is to write down all the crazy, fleeting ideas I have, then go back to review later rather than judging right off the bat, or even worse, forgetting them.  Earlier in the month I was looking through that idea notepad and found “Make Tetris Pumpkins” from sometime last year. My original plan had been to make forms to shape pumpkins into Tetris pieces as they grew, then stack them together for Halloween. Since Halloween was only a few weeks away and it was too late to start growing pumpkins, I thought “Why not make a pumpkin you can play Tetris on instead?”

You can read more about how it was put together here

Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Kinect Genealogy - A Brief History of Gestural Interfaces 

To commemorate the upcoming second anniversary of the release of Microsoft’s Kinect, a device which changed interactive art, I take a look at other examples of creative gestural interfaces from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, plus more.

You can see the entire piece at Rhizome here

Question: How many After Effect layers does a scene from a Cyriak animation have? 

Answer: Loads …

I was curious to see how many After Effects layers I used in a single scene of one of my videos, so I put together this image. I’ve taken the liberty of including all the layers inside some of the pre-comps as well (these are essentially grouped layers), and have expanded them all to show the keyframes. Happy scrolling. 

Happy scrolling here

CraftStudio 

Described as “a game to make games” … or a real-time collaborative game-making tool for the MineCraft generation. Here is a trailer featuring it’s developer, Elisée Maurer:

Games with user-generated content like Minecraft, Little Big Planet or Trackmania have made it clear that lots of gamers are creative at their heart and that, provided with the right tools, you guys can and want to build awesome stuff.

User-made maps are great, but we can do better! Introducing…

Real-time collaborative game-making, for the masses

CraftStudio is a multiplayer platform to create games and interactive movies. It’s about empowering gamers and blurring the line between playing and creating.

It makes a few trade-offs (a low-poly, pixel-arty look) to allow gamers with no particular experience to:

• Create, paint and animate 3D models (characters, objects) out of blocks.
• Craft infinite maps (think Minecraft’s creative mode), painting your own blocks to create whatever universe you want.
• Give life to their worlds using a visual scripting system.

It’s all real-time, you can collaborate with friends or strangers over the Internet. You can set up your own server or join an existing project.

It’s currently in Alpha build and Windows only, but you can get hold of it and find out more at the project’s website here (and more info at it’s old IndieGoGo page here)

Data Driven Stories: Aaron Koblin for the Future of StoryTelling

Aaron Koblin discusses his high-profile web-based creative projects which have all been groundbreaking:

A sort of dreamscape unto itself, this film charts the creation of several of acclaimed artist Aaron Koblin’s most imaginative and game-changing projects, including the crowd-sourced music video for Johnny Cash’s song “Ain’t No Grave” and the user-customized short film “The Wilderness Downtown,” which is set to Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait” and was created entirely in HTML5. Koblin also describes the genesis and evolution of what may be his most groundbreaking work to date: “This Exquisite Forest,” a collaborative art project and online story generator (created with Chris Milk and the Tate Modern museum in London) built and nurtured by web users. Koblin’s remarkable oeuvre draws increasingly on the immense computing, storage, and data-sharing capabilities of the current generation of computers—as well as recent innovations like hardware-accelerated browser graphics—and demonstrates in the most vivid ways imaginable the infinite artistic and narrative possibilities of crowdsourced digital creation and autonomous storytelling.

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Nick Clegg Looking Algorithmically Sad

Remix of a Tumblr meme blog, with images of the UK Deputy Prime Minister run through facial and emotional recognition software.

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Typode

A simple font created by Santiago Ortiz with co-ordinates for creative coding effects and manipulation.

The demo works in your browser, which you can try here

Iterative Screenshot Art - iPhone edition

Not so much Glitch Art, but a way to create your own error-looking iOS homescreen, your own interface aesthetic piece, or simply to prank someone - by squeekycleanideas:

Iterative Screenshot Art - iPhone edition

Step 1) take screenshot of the lock screen with a notification showing (the more the better)

Step 2) make screenshot your homescreen

Step 3) open a folder

Step 4) take screenshot of open folder

Step 5) make screenshot your homescreen

Step 6) take screenshot

Step 7) make screenshot your homescreen

* To take a screenshot of your iPhone, hold the home button and press the power button to snap the shot

Once you have completed these steps, you will have successfully made one of the most intuitive interfaces incredibly confusing. There is something very fun about trying to understand exactly what you are seeing at any given moment.  My favorite, at this point, is opening a folder.  As the folder opens, and the icons would normally fade out, in this case, they crossfade with fake icons in their place.

Experiment with any combination of the above or add other screenshots to start with.. maybe the mail or calendar app. Let me know if you come across something exciting :)

Patterns 

The creators of Second Life, Linden Labs, sandbox world game is Minecraft with polygons:

Explore caverns and valleys, while you harvest substances with real world densities. Build large scale structures that reach the sky or bridges that traverse chasms. Challenge real-world physics to see which creations will tumble — or withstand — the power of gravity. 

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