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Stimmungsgasometer
"The project Stimmungsgasometer is about a smiley on a huge screen from which one can read the average mood of the Berlin citizens."
faces  germany  technology  art  via:blech 
9 weeks ago by kevan
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Magazine
"There is no law in France, it turns out, against the improvement of clocks."
secrets  time  paris  hacking  art  via:mugla 
january 2012 by kevan
Ronald Searle | The Economist
"Ronald Searle, artist, limner of St Trinian’s and St Custard’s, died on December 30th, aged 91. Nigel Molesworth of St Custard’s writes."
art  death 
january 2012 by kevan
Creative Review - 24 hours in photos
"This installation by Erik Kessels is on show as part of an exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam that looks at the future of photography. It features print-outs of all the images uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period."
photography  art  via:waxy 
november 2011 by kevan
Robot creates huge Nazca-inspired drawings in Peruvian desert (Wired UK)
"The picture took five days using a using an off-road style robot [...] powered by a motorcycle engine and rigged up with a computer, GPS tracker and compass."
art  robots 
august 2011 by kevan
novastructura.Stone Fields
"I love the work by Richard Long, the way he fills lonely landscapes with arcaic stones patterns. [...] The virtual stones created by several fractal subdivision strategies, find their proper position within the circle, with a trial and error hierarchical algorithm."
emergence  art  stone  via:zarba 
july 2011 by kevan
I made 700+ RPG icons free for use for your game : IndieGaming
A huge collection of black-and-white icons, released under CC Attribution. "I really like the cute little icons you get for skills and suchlike in modern games; tiny pretty but functional pictures. [...] Turns out they're really fun to make."
games  art  via:zarba 
july 2011 by kevan
Epic Exquisite Corpse
A million-square four-directional exquisite corpse.
art  via:zarba 
july 2011 by kevan
GENTRY
Portraits painted onto grids of floppy disks and "a combination of obsolete media formats, making a comment on waste culture, life cycles and identity."
art  technology  history 
june 2011 by kevan
Seed Drawings: Visual Emergence using Mechanical Turk - information aesthetics
"Each small drawing is produced by a single individual with no knowledge of the overall forms and structure within the larger drawing."
emergence  art  via:waxy 
february 2011 by kevan
“Dead Drops” preview at Aram Bartholl – Blog
"‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space."
art  computers  secrets  via:waxy 
november 2010 by kevan
Dictaphone Parcel on Vimeo
"Dictaphone Parcel is an animation based on a sound recorded with a dictaphone travelling secretly inside a parcel."
travel  sound  art 
september 2010 by kevan
siren elise wilhelmsen: 365
"The clock houses a circular knitting machine with 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder and roll of yarn. Moving in clockwise direction, one day leads to a complete round, while a year gives users 2 meters of a complete scarf."
art  time  clothes  via:mugla 
july 2010 by kevan
Moscow Metro forced to delay opening of ‘depressing’ Dostoevsky station - Times Online
"The [murals], drawn from the 19th-century novelist’s works, could prompt depressed commuters to kill themselves, critics say. "
depression  transport  death  russia  art  via:minkette 
may 2010 by kevan
Bees Use Flower Petals For Nest Wallpaper : NPR
"To begin construction, she bites the petals off of flowers and flies each petal - one by one - back to the nest, a peanut-sized burrow in the ground."
bees  plants  art 
may 2010 by kevan
Looking at clouds - PlayPen
A self-modifying pixel-art choose-your-own-adventure game running through MediaWiki.
wikis  art  games 
april 2010 by kevan
Fluxus Workbook (PDF)
"The orchestra is divided into two teams, winds and strings, sitting in opposing rows. [...] Performers must hit a performer on the opposite team with a missile. A performer hit three times must leave the stage. Missiles are exchanged until all performers on one side are gone. Conductor acts as referee."
art  games  music  pervasive  via:zarba  filetype:pdf  media:document 
march 2010 by kevan
69 Love Songs, Illustrated.
"We are a loose collection of mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers [who] decided that illustrating – or writing a comic – or a short story – inspired by all 69 songs was a worthwhile and exciting pursuit!"
music  comics  art  love  via:currybet 
february 2010 by kevan
Year of the Dungeon
Small and barely explained RPG dungeon sketches. "Within a few days I picked [a notecard] up and started sketching a dungeon map on it. Pretty soon I'd done a half dozen."
roleplaying  maps  art  via:brendan 
january 2010 by kevan
Volpin Props: Big Daddy (Bioshock)
Making a Big Daddy costume. "I started with a 24'' smoked security camera dome off of eBay. This came from a demolished shopping center, and are actually hard to track down these days."
games  clothes  design  art  via:waxy 
november 2009 by kevan
a project to transform London's Bus journeys | Bus-Tops
"The project intends to install a number of LED displays on the roof’s of Bus Shelters across London and providing the tools for the public and established artists to create content to be seen on them. [Its] core aim is to democratise public art."
transport  art  london 
october 2009 by kevan
cabel.name: Kashiwa Mystery Cafe
"At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered."
food  mysteries  art  japan  shops  via:waxy 
october 2009 by kevan
miket - Blood Lamp
"For the lamp to work one breaks the top off, dissolves the tablet, and uses their own blood to power a simple light."
light  blood  science  art  via:andyskipper 
september 2009 by kevan
Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus
"The program downloads and parses a part of the text of a recent best-selling book. The algorithm eliminates all insignificant words like 'I', 'and', 'to', 'for', 'the', etc. The remaining words and their combinations are the keywords for the patent drawings."
art  emergence  books  history  via:zarba 
september 2009 by kevan
One & Other
Live 24-hour video feed of Antony Gormley's fourth plinth.
art  london 
july 2009 by kevan
Galleri Tom Christoffersen - Henrik Menne
"Their process is always silent, controlled and structured by repetitive movements as the machines transform a single material - plastic, wax, metal or stone - into peculiar objects."
art  emergence  plastic 
june 2009 by kevan
Ripping Palettes for Better Colors - Indiegamer Developer Discussion Boards
"Here's a process that yields great color schemes fast, from any source image. The process extracts the color scheme from an existing work of art and arranges the colors into an organized palette image. Use this resulting image like a painter's palette to choose colors for your own artwork or game assets."
art  hacking  via:zarba 
june 2009 by kevan
Gizmodo - First TV Image of Mars Ever Was Made With Crayons - Mariner 4
"The people at the JPL were so excited to receive the [1965 Mariner probe] images that they couldn't wait for them to be processed by the lab's imager. As the first picture was beamed down as a stream of 8-bit numbers - each point indicating a brightness point - they thought of a quick way to get an image straight away: Print the numbers indicating brightness in paper strips, put them together, and color them with pastel crayons."
space  mars  art  via:zarba 
may 2009 by kevan
Urban Camouflage
Sinister ghillie suits made from dishcloths, shopping bags and cardboard boxes.
illusions  art  monsters  via:holly 
march 2009 by kevan
BBC NEWS | Health | Doodling 'may help memory recall'
"A simple task, like doodling, may be sufficient to stop daydreaming without affecting performance on the main task."
art  memory  paper 
february 2009 by kevan
Customised City | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE
"One advantage of working outside of the traditional graffiti media is that cops aren’t really looking for guys attaching grids of foam board to giant TVs."
graffiti  cities  technology  art  via:anne 
january 2009 by kevan
Chris O'Shea - Audience
"When members of the audience occupy the space, the mirrors inquisitively follow someone that they find interesting. Having chosen their subject, they all synchronise and turn their heads towards them. Suddenly that person can see their reflection in all of the mirrors."
mirrors  art 
december 2008 by kevan
MS Paint Adventures
Slow text-command adventure games where the entire parser is an artist using MS Paint.
games  art  if  via:zarba 
november 2008 by kevan
Tate Intermedia Art: Under Scan
"As people walk around the area, their shadow is cast on the floor, revealing the video-portraits. As they appear within pedestrians' shadows, their bodies move and their heads turn to look straight at the pedestrian, giving rise to an interesting range of interactions."
art  light  videos  london 
september 2008 by kevan
The Fourth Plinth - Antony Gormley
"Antony Gormley proposes that the fourth plinth is occupied 24 hours a day by members of the public who have volunteered to stand on it for an hour at a time."
london  art 
june 2008 by kevan
Hide & Seek Festival 2008 : Social Games and Playful Experiences
Programme details are now live for the Hide and Seek pervasive gaming festival, running from the 27th to the 29th of June. "Everything from fine artists making location-based work to huge flashmob games within the public spaces of the Southbank Centre."
games  cities  art  architecture 
may 2008 by kevan
The Naked Game
"What you are seeing is a primitive version of 'Pong', being played by two artificial intelligences, with the entire code governing the mechanics of the game exposed below it. [You] can remove lines of code and see the effects in real time."
programming  art  mutation  via:grandtextauto 
may 2008 by kevan
Ten Thousand Cents
"'Ten Thousand Cents' is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task."
art  money  via:waxy 
april 2008 by kevan
Al Jaffee - Mad magazine - Comics - Art - New York Times
"I have this idea, I think it’s a funny idea, but I know you’re not going to buy it. But I’m going to show it to you anyway. And you’re not going to buy it because it mutilates the magazine."
interviews  art  comics  history  via:waxy 
march 2008 by kevan
greg.org: the making of: The Moon Museum
"The Moon Museum was secretly installed on a hatch on a leg of the Intrepid landing module with the help of an unnamed engineer at the Grumman Corporation after attempts to move the project forward through NASA's official channels were unsuccessful."
art  space  secrets  via:lmg 
march 2008 by kevan
Dark Roasted Blend: Nightmare Playgrounds
A gallery of strange or decaying children's playground sculptures.
photos  russia  children  art  architecture 
february 2008 by kevan
Richard Prince - Jim Krantz - Photographs - Art - New York Times
"What do the photographers who took the original pictures think of these pictures of their pictures, apotheosized into art but without their names anywhere in sight?" [...] "I never associated advertisements with having an author."
advertising  art  mutation  photos  crime  law  via:hoaxes 
february 2008 by kevan
How You See It
Overlaid news. "What How You See It hopes to illuminate is how news broadcasts, far from daring reporting or varied approaches has regressed to pantomiming each other, creating a cacophony of sound and images that are no different from one another."
news  art  videos  via:waxy 
february 2008 by kevan
Jung von Matt/next - nextwall
"Equipped with the appropriate technology, DAIM sprays graffiti into empty space. In a large hall, three cameras using Motion Capturing record DAIM's position and the movements he executes with a virtual spray can."
graffiti  technology  simulation  art 
january 2008 by kevan
80 Million Tiny Images
"A visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. [The] proximity of two tiles is given by their semantic distance."
language  art 
january 2008 by kevan
World Beach Project - Victoria and Albert Museum
"The World Beach Project is a global art project open to anybody, anywhere, of any age. [This] project combines the simplicity of making patterns with stones with the complexities of shape, size, colour, tone, composition, similarity and difference."
art  stone 
january 2008 by kevan
Fictional radio-spaces - Touch
"Using inspiration from richly illustrated books on botany, zoology and natural history, Ingeborg arrived at the concept of an encyclopeadia of radio waves that contains a selection of fictional radio ‘species’."
art  radio  via:infosthetics 
december 2007 by kevan
Helvetica (2006)
Engaging history of the typeface; its rise and the backlash against it, all shown against the backdrop of Helvetica's global omnipresence in urban signage. No narrator, just lots of genuinely enthusiastic or angry type designers.
filmlog  4stars  fonts  design  history  art 
december 2007 by kevan
My 46000 challenge
"I have resolved to 'save' one square mile of ocean by collecting 46,000 pieces of litter whilst walking on the beaches near my home." Fran Crowe's project is now complete, and archived with photos, catalogued and colour-coordinated.
plastic  litter  pollution  art 
november 2007 by kevan
1 room, no view | Rhode Island news | The Providence Journal
"Eight artists snuck into the depths of Providence Place mall and built a secret studio apartment in which they stayed, on and off, for nearly four years until mall security finally caught their leader last week."
art  architecture  secrets  shops  zombies  via:penguin 
october 2007 by kevan
Chris O'Leary - Forgotten Futures
"The top 100 terms for each year were categorized using the Dewey Decimal system, and mapped onto a grid. Holes were drilled into sheets of plexiglass whose sizes correspond to their frequency. For example, 'war' is the biggest hole in 1945."
art  future  history  libraries  plastic  via:infosthetics 
september 2007 by kevan
YouTube - First Video - Show Me the Way (to Go Home)
First video of a spoken-direction project I collaborated on for a Tokyo art exhibition. It's either at the Ginza Art Laboratory or the Koiwa Project Space, I'm not sure which.
creations  art  travel  language  videos  gps 
july 2007 by kevan
Chief Mag » issue #4 » Haruo Suekichi
Japanese steampunk watchmaker. "If you think about it that way, if we didn't need watches and time, I wouldn't make watches, but we do need them, so at least I can try and do it in a fun and interesting way."
art  time  design  technology  japan  via:brendan 
july 2007 by kevan
Michel Gagné - Animation
"In the Fall of 2006, I was contacted by Brad Bird to create a series of animated vignettes for his movie Ratatouille. The concept was to design and animate abstract representations of what the character was tasting."
food  synaesthesia  art  films  via:infosthetics 
july 2007 by kevan
Avatar Machine
"Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface."
art  games  eyes  technology  illusions  via:penguin 
june 2007 by kevan
Tim Knowles - Postal Works - Spy Box
"A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The Spy Box was sent from my studio to the gallery taking an image every 10 seconds recording a total of 6994 images."
art  secrets  surveillance  travel 
june 2007 by kevan
Merde d'artiste: not exactly what it says on the tin | Guardian Unlimited Arts
"One of Manzoni's collaborators, Agostino Bonalumi, has now revealed that the tins are not full of faeces, but plaster."
art  metal  lies 
june 2007 by kevan
show me the way (to go home)
If you've got a moment: "As part of an art project about spoken directions, we're trying to collect as many recordings as possible of people giving directions."
creations  art  maps 
june 2007 by kevan
Rosemarie Fiore - Good-Time Mix Machine: Scrambler Drawings
"I connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath."
art  physics  paint  via:infosthetics 
june 2007 by kevan
flatlandproject.com
"In this semi-extreme performance, 6 curious artists strip away not only most of modern life's familiar structures, but an entire dimension: they have elected to inhabit a structure that effectively forces them to live in 2 dimensions."
art  architecture  maths  via:zarba 
may 2007 by kevan
Log On, Shoot at an Iraqi: New Interactive Installation at the Flatfile Gallery | Political Art Magazine
"Bilal's installation - titled Domestic Tension - disturbingly raises awareness about the life of the Iraqi people and the home confinement they face due to the both the violent and the virtual war they face on a daily basis."
art  war  paint  technology  via:penguin 
may 2007 by kevan
The Believer - The Codex Seraphinianus
"Like a Borges story, this is as much about the quest for knowledge as it is about the knowledge itself. It involves books missing from libraries, lost translations, and people not answering letters."
books  mysteries  language  art  borges  via:warrenellis 
may 2007 by kevan
Improve your photography with classical art
"I keep a directory of about 30 of my favorite paintings and anytime I need to do color correction, I just scan through them to find the one that gives the photo I'm working on the best look."
art  photos  paint  light  mutation  via:holly 
may 2007 by kevan
The Bug: Steampunk Computer Mouse > Jake of All Trades
"One holds the device in a manner similar to the way a wood-worker holds a sanding block. [...] Turning the wheel in the center produces an action similar to turning a page in a book, or cranking a kinetoscope."
technology  art  computers  metal  via:matthew 
april 2007 by kevan
Inhabitat » Studio Libertiny's Vase Made By Bees
"Making its debut at Droog's booth in Milan, the vase was made by 40,000 bees over the course of one week. Studio Libertiny constructed a vase-shaped hive that the bees then colonized, building a hexagonal comb to encompass the existing form."
design  bees  art  via:holly 
april 2007 by kevan
skycatcher
Browseable archive of five-minute webcam captures of the sky over Amsterdam, including a beautiful sunrise-sunset sine-wave poster of a year's worth of weather.
weather  time  art  via:infosthetics 
april 2007 by kevan
Experimentelle Interfaces WS 06 » Weather Explorer Umbrella
"Die jeweiligen Wetterdaten, werden immer am Anfang aus den XML-Dateien des Yahoo-Wetter-Internetdienstes ausgelesen und den einzelnen Städten zugewiesen."
weather  design  art  web  technology 
march 2007 by kevan
W. Bradford Paley: Map of science image in the journal Nature
"Links were made between the paradigms that shared common members, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer one another when a physical simulation had every paradigm repel every other: thus the layout derives directly from the data."
science  maps  design  art 
march 2007 by kevan
Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait
"Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on."
art  photos  design  society  america  via:infosthetics 
february 2007 by kevan
eRiceCooker
"Whenever there is a new report about GM rice, a quarter cup of rice is dispensed into the cooker. When the cooker has enough rice for a meal, water is added [and] the cooker is switched on [and] an email is sent out to inviting people to eat the rice."
food  news  technology  art  via:infosthetics 
january 2007 by kevan
On Photography - Susan Sontag
"The mainstream of photographic activity has shown that a Surrealist manipulation or theatricalization of the real is unnecessary, if not actually redundant." Great social history of photography, lots of photographers I should read up on.
booklog  photos  history  art  society  via:holly 
january 2007 by kevan
Mike Libby - Insect Lab
"Insect Lab is an artist operated studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components."
insects  robots  technology  art  mutation 
december 2006 by kevan
timhunkin/is it art? collecting box
"The expert (a portrait of Nicholas Serota) leans over to inspect the object, then returns and nods as if he approves. After a short pause he shakes his head, changing his mind. The object is then returned and tipped out on the floor."
art  technology  robots  money 
december 2006 by kevan
GhostCycle.org
"We have placed 'CYCLIST STRUCK HERE' installations ('GhostCycles') at the 40 locations around Seattle where the most numerous/most severe accidents have taken place. Our goal is to raise driver awareness for non-vehicular use of our streets."
art  transport  ghosts  death 
december 2006 by kevan
Wee planets - a photoset on Flickr
"All these pictures are 360° panoramas projected to look like small planets."
art  photos  design  france  via:leonard 
december 2006 by kevan
superconsumers - real money! real goods! no humans!
"The software uses [an amount of] money to buy goods autonomously at the online-auction-platform ebay, transfers this goods to an art-space, exhibits them and sells them again via ebay."
art  money 
november 2006 by kevan
superconsumers - real money! real goods! no humans!
"The software uses [an amount of] money to buy goods autonomously at the online-auction-platform ebay, transfers this goods to an art-space, exhibits them and sells them again via ebay."
art  money 
november 2006 by kevan
Duncan Wilson - Pixelnotes
"A wallpaper consisting of four layers of [post-it notes in] varying grey tones on a bright primary backing."
art  paper  emergence 
november 2006 by kevan
How to Steal a Million (1966)
A light and pointlessly elaborate art-forgery heist, pulled off by a reluctant but obligingly over-prepared Peter O'Toole.
filmlog  3stars  art  crime  money  cheating  police  france 
november 2006 by kevan
Sketch Furniture by FRONT
"Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture."
furniture  design  light  technology  art  plastic  via:venusberg 
november 2006 by kevan
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