Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative
Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative
Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative
Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative
Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative
Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative
Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative
Videographer: Commissioned artist and friend of Eyebeam, Jason Jones of Not An Alternative
Jeffkobbi writes -
Some friends wanted a lighted hula hoop for burningman, and when they turned out to be about $200 each, I decided to make one. All the parts cost about $15 . . . total time to make the hoop was about 3 hours, but that included time for figuring things out. You could probably make one in less than 2 hours with this instructable and soldering skills...LED Hula Hoop - Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]
Stuart writes -
The idea behind this Instructable was to fulfill my desire for a desktop sized CNC machine. While it would have been nice to purchase an off the shelf unit the issue of price as well as size proved prohibitive. With this in mind I endeavored to design and build a three axis CNC machine with the following factors in mind:
How to Make a Three Axis CNC Machine (Cheaply and Easily) - [via] Link.
I kind of love the way the new stuff from M.I.A. looks -- sorta like mid-90s websites, word salad spam, Pac-Man, and Nigerian gangsta rap all rolled up and smoked as one. Her recently redone website induces excellent epilepsy.
In the photo above, she's chilling between takes at a video shoot for the new single, "Boyz," with a bestickered MacBook Pro. Snip from Obtusity blog:
Though it's hard to believe, M.I.A. has taken the visual themes of 2005's Arular (seen everywhere from the cover art to the video for "Galang") and created something even more gloriously epilepsy-inducing for sophomore LP Kala. The vibrant collage of neon colors and cheap special effects found in the promo for new single "Boyz" (as well as her fantastic website) is a homage to everything from 80's video games to the advertising and film culture of Nigeria, Southeast Asia and Jamaica. But it's also a completely singular vision, and one that is impossible to pin to any particular movement or region of the world.Link to post which points to her new "Boyz" video, more behind-the-scenes stills here. Who shot the stills, I wonder? No credit on the website. (thanks, Susannah Breslin)
Reader comment: Chris Hutsul in Toronto says,
I too like MIA's new webiste. But I like art collective Paper Rodeo's better: Link.Ben says,As you can see, her's is a blatant copy.
Your commenter meant (hopefully) to say "Paper Rad," not "Paper Rodeo" in the MIA story. Link, and they're eminently YouTubeable.Cayden says,To be fair, MIA's designer could be getting the Paper Rad influence secondhand; a quick look around MySpace reveals an embarrassment of pages with a similar GIF-Bomb'd Nu-Rave Retarditaire aesthetic...
Chris is onto something, but I wouldn't say MIA's site is a "blatant copy" of Paper Rad's. It's called psychedelia. Check this website of local Detroit art/music collective, Scrummage University: Link.Glitch says,
I believe, M.I.A.'s website was actually designed by the awesome zephyrerising.com but a lot of the inspiration comes from Cartoon coutour fashion designer cassetteplaya.com who actually helped with the original designs for her 1st album. Rad stuff, that I hope will become uniforms in private schools all across the world.skim says,
I'm not sure who started the epileptic websites, but sadly a portland band, menomena has recently changed their fun, wackyness website to a more formal readable site. however, you can still access their radness page - it's truly the radness. check it out!
A local artist and his pupils decorated the dishes of Amsterdam's "satellite city," an immigrant neighborhood.
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Instructables has a great HOWTO for modding a Swiffer Wetjet mop for use as a prop blood-squirter. Just in time for the summer garden-party season, too.
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Mike adapted some green spokepov kits to make a first revision of a 3d LED bonsai tree! Read his blog to see details on how he made all three versions of this project including neat pics and videos.
You've gotta love this - reads "Linux User Parking Only - All others will be reformatted," and shows a penguin on a Windows grave. Made of thick 0.040 aluminum and tough cast vinyl, the sign is 12in. wide and 18in. tall - just like an official parking sign. Put it outside or inside.
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Working under the label of Electronic Crafts, designer Mouna Andraos has been hard at work researching alternative, novel and sustainable ways to design electronic artifacts. This is no small task, as we've seen just a few of the implications and examples of lead-laden, toxic-heavy electronics and the nasty waste they create (along with a few green electronics ideas ...
Plastic shopping bags are a scourge on the environment. What to do with all those plastic bags that seem to be just hanging around everywhere. One idea that seems to be a hit amongst the DIY and creative arty crowd is to fuse various plastic bags together and make fabric out of them. The basic process is to iron the plastic bags, with a sheet of baking paper between iron and plastic, until two or more sheets fuse together. Sound easy - well in theory it is, but it takes a little practice to get the timing and heat just right. Once you have it down, you can start experimenting with colours and patterns, using the plastic bag labels as decoration. And then ...
Link (Thanks, Richard!)This past weekend, my wife and I attended a family wedding for one of her cousins. My wife's uncle (and the father of the groom) is a bit of a tinkerer and a prankster. We also suspect he's slightly crazy, but that's beside the point.
When you've got a small-block 400, a trailer, assorted parts and the ability to custom fabricate a 6-inch tall replica of a blender blade out of stainless steel, what do you do with your spare time?
Make the world's fastest margarita machine.
Update: Autumn sez, "I thought you might want to tell folks in the SF bay area that tomorrow (Wed 6/20) there's a class at the TechShop on making a DIY Margarita Machine that still has lots of seats left open."
Update 2: Brett sez, "Here's the Flickr set of that wonderful machine."
Update: Gavin sez, "I could only be reminded of the wall I painted with magnetic paint leading into my kitchen. It's very entertaining, and it is a living scrapbook for everyone to enjoy!" Pic 1, Pic 2
For companies trying to be sustainable and carbon neutral, warehousing and distribution can be difficult. It's fine to make green products, but it is more difficult to find a green way to get them into stores.
If you are serious about reducing emissions, and your product doesn't weigh too much, then this human-powered forklift may be a good option. You can move and lift pallets entirely with human power, and get that gas or diesel forklift out of your warehouse.
Although, it will only lift 30kg so it clearly isn't a replacement option for all companies. You raise the bed by turning a crank with your hand, and you transport the goods by pedalling with your feet. Quite a lot of forkl...
Stephanie Hunt joined Eyebeam in March 2007 to share her knack for supporting emerging artists, technologists, and inventors. As the Production Manager, she facilitates Eyebeam's residency and fellowship programs. Stephanie previously worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she introduced emerging research to the public through exhibits and programs. She holds a BA in Studio Art and Education from Middlebury College and an EdM in Technology in Education from Harvard University.
“Now, however, Jobs is departing from classical structure and undertaking an Act Four. With the iPhone, in particular, he is hurling Apple into foreign waters. His motivations for doing so aren’t difficult to discern. Somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion cell phones are sold worldwide every year; in terms of scale, ubiquity, and relevance, it’s the mother of all consumer-electronics markets. The chance to upend this sprawling industry, bend it to his will, is one that Jobs, being Jobs, finds irresistible.LinkApple’s competitors, by contrast, find the prospect of the iPhone terrifying. ‘The entire fucking Western world hopes that it’s a case of imperial overstretch,’ says the CEO of one of the planet’s largest communications companies. ‘But everybody is quietly saying, er, what if people want to buy a $500 phone? What if, er, people have been waiting for a device that does all these things? What if this thing works as advertised? I mean, my God, what then?’”
A reader writes, "Like many European TV channels the state-owned CT2 broadcasts live panorama / weather streams from popular recreation areas in its morning programme, fully automated 30 second pans per site with music in the background. Initiative Ztohoven, a collective around Roman Tyc, somehow managed to inject a pre-recorded pan with a sudden atomic explosion in the midst of a beautiful countryside. No word how they did it, assume they tricked the cabling on the unmanned camera site. Tyc also replaced traffic light icons in Prague with illustrations of drunk, pissing or ranting figures a few months ago."
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London's Spitalfields area is most notorious for its old market but since the Fall of 2006 it has also been drawing attention for its peculiar new exhibition space--the first of its kind in the UK--the Kinetica Museum. Its mission is to 'actively encourage the convergence of art and technology, providing an exhibition space in central London where the most important examples of kinetic, technological, and electronic art, both past and present, can be properly stored and displayed.' Currently on view, 'Soundwaves' exemplifies the Kinetica Museum's mission. A collaboration with the Cybersonica festival, this exhibition presents fifteen pioneering UK and European artists that have developed projects that 'explore, warp, collect, and manipulate sound.' According to the organizers, some of the highlights of the show are: 'An orchestra of household objects by Pierre Bastien; interactive sound and shadow circuit bending sculptures by Peter Vogel; kinetic electro-acoustic sculptures by Max Eastley; Rob Mullender's photophonic sound synthesizer; Martin Riches robotic and kinetic sound machines; a phonetic voice theremin by Michael Markett; receiver and transmitting dialogue devices by Julie Freeman; an interactive percussive installation by Andy Huntingdon; and a new piece by soundtoys.net artist Arcangel Constantini.' The May 18 opening event included a series of performances by some of the featured artists and brought together musical and visual traditions alongside new technologies to create experimental work, demonstrating that sound is one of the most challenging yet promising media for contemporary artistic practices. - Miguel Amado
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Nokia's General Manager of Mobile Devices, Antti Vasara, had some interesting things to say in an interview with Sweden's E24.SE this morning. Of course, the fact that the E90 ramp-up has begun is notable, especially if you happen to be reading this in Finland where the first shipments of the hotly anticipated communicator will rollout. However, what we found to be most enlightening is Nokia's take on the recent trend towards high-end touchscreen displays -- a la the LG Prada, HTC Touch, and Apple iPhone.Continue reading Nokia's "not enthusiastic" about touchscreens -- Apple, LG, and HTC say wha?
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Quite cocky attitude, in the light of polls stating that 16% of US buyers are into getting an iPhone.. They have shared their opinions with Bill Gates a few years back, had a very strong negative reaction to Nokia's opinion that PCs are dead, but it appears he started repeating the same mantra later in trade shows etc, interesting, I am a firm believer in the iPhone, regardless of lack of some features and reported first gen bugs -- MT
Advance word comes to 3pointD that the Long Now Foundation (which has to be one of the coolest organizations on the face of the planet) will bring Brian Enos art installation, 77 Million Paintings, to the virtual world of Second Life at the end of June, concurrent with the shows real-world opening. The virtual show is being built out by a startup metaverse services firm known as blueair.tv. For those who dont know it, the Long Now Foundation is developing the worlds slowest computer, which is meant to do for thinking about time what the photographs of Earth from space have done for thinking about the environment. As the site points out, Such icons reframe the way people think. The term long now was coined by Eno, who, for those who dont know him, is one of the most influential contemporary musicians around, and also a Long Now board member. Eno has also been more closely involved with things metaversal of late, having hooked up with Will Wright some time back. (And if you dont know who Will Wright is, you had really better start doing your homework.) No details yet of what the SL opening and build will feature, but if Eno is making an appearance its sure to be extra cool. [posted by Mark Wallace on 3pointD]
Juha Huuskonen, one of the key Finnish media artists, behind the PixelAche, has also created interesting works in "slow" medium -- MT
Nice. -- MT
Clear design, inspired by Tesla and various other englightened people. Would be interesting to see the code for the piece, how the balance states, proximity, current control, coil patterns were handled... Another installation creating a bit similar omphff/wow effect was the Japanese ferroelectric liquid at Siggraph, but the excitement wore off a bit after the initial amazement.. interesting to see where similar solutions move in everyday level... levitation/antigravity could be applied in home design (real "airbed"?) -- MT
Interesting to see where Nelson's research goes next, if one could really know how the Future unfolds/has already taken place and how everything is connected in quantum level, causes A) heavy burden of responsibility, B) would shed some more light on how twins feel their connection/shadow pain between each other,other intuitive folks communicate, get premonitions, see same dreams etc B) Govt & corporate parties would love to get such devices in their hands, luckily not there yet. Those interested and sceptics should check out: noosphere.princeton.edu May the Force be with You. -- MT.
Not many details on this one, so I'm not sure if it's a genuine modification, a weird advertising campaign or even an art installation. Anything’s possible. I like to think though, that it's a Hungarian motorist who places sustainability as a higher priority than comfort, speed, handling or self preservation. ::Hemmings.com...
Cool, lets cut all the trees in the world and make them into car tires, shifting back to wild west/horse and carriage/borat is already happening, these folks are in the forefront.. --MT
Promising, this helps to change ways of thinking/paradigm shift, along with small other steps like GM Volt, Wrightspeed X1, Tesla (after the horrible destiny of EV-1). -- MT
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Clear minimalist design, nice approach to light angle vs. power. --MT
Welcome Eyebeam's newest staff member to reBlog!
Marko Tandefelt is a Finnish born New York based musician and concept designer. Among his main interests are electronic musical instruments, custom sensorbased prototyping, synaesthesia and novel immersive cinema and visualization systems. Marko has worked in R&D, pervasive computing and industrial visualization projects for companies such as NEC, ESIDesign and Antennadesign/NYC MTA. Prior to Eyebeam, he worked at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York as a Project Director and Curator of "SAUMA: Design as Cultural Interface" and "F2F: New Media Art from Finland" exhibitions. Marko is also the AV & Media Producer of a large scale touring international exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (www.eerosaarinen.net). Since 2001, he has taught Masters level Physical Computing and Thesis Studio courses at Parsons School of Design CDT program. Marko holds a B.M. degree in Music Technology from NYU, a Master's degree from NYU Tisch Interactive Telecommunications program. He is a member of ACM, AES, IEEE, SIGGRAPH, SMPTE and SPIE.
The new London 2012 brand was unveiled today. The designers explain: “London 2012 will be everyone’s Games, everyone’s 2012. This is the vision at the very heart of the new London 2012 brand. It will define the venues that are built and the Games that London and the UK will host. The new 2012 emblem will use the Olympic spirit to inspire everyone and reach out to young people. It is an invitation to take part and be involved.” The logo is creating quite a stir as the blogosphere is reportedly up in arms and angry over the jagged design. Armin at Speak Up analyzes London’s Olympics logo for 2012. With plenty of links and comments. It’s not all bad, as SpeakUp defends the design: “I believe, despite any ensuing boo’s, that this is some of the most innovative and daring identity work we have seen in this new millennium, and the lack of cheesy and imagination-impairing gradients gives me hope that identity work can still be resurrected on a larger scale.”
i don't think its bad, though i would've expected better since london has such fantastic graphic design scene...JB
i was wondering how they did it...JB
this is sad...JB
gotta go see...JB
Here's a beer bottle solar-powered water heater from China -
A Chinese farmer has made his own solar-powered water heater out of beer bottles and hosepipes. Chinese farmer Ma Yanjun has made his own solar-powered water heater out of beer bottles and hosepipes /Lu Feng. "I invented this for my mother. I wanted her to shower comfortably," says Ma Yanjun, of Qiqiao village, Shaanxi province. Ma's invention features 66 beer bottles attached to a board. The bottles are connected to each other so that water flows through them.Ananova - Beer and sunshine land farmer in hot water - [via] Link.
sounds like a good idea...JB
De Pong Game is a recycling of the famous game PONG [Atari 1975-1977]. This new version has been built with Flash [Action Script] by Arjan Westerdiep for Recyclism (Benjamin Gaulon).
This project is exploring the concept of Augmented Reality by using and interacting with urban architectures [buildings] as background for the game. Thus the game is projected on a building and the limits of that building are becoming the limits of the game area. The ball projected on the building bounces along the limits of the walls. The software is also using the windows as an obstacles for the game. So the ball is limited to frame of the building. As you touch the ball with the slider, its speed increases and because the ball bounces on all the obstacles of the architecture it becomes more and more difficult to play.
okay, this is pretty cool...JB
Dutch students have developed what might be the ultimate Reg hack survival aid - a powdered alcohol beverage going out at €1-€1.50 for a 20-gram packet, Reuters reports.…
this could be a fun disaster...JB
it is about time that something is done with this. it has been around forever and is completely under-used...JB
Our stomach churned a bit while we wrote this post, but there is some logic to it. Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork in petri dishes and give new meaning to the phrase Mystery Meat. "We're trying to make meat without having to kill animals," Bernard Roelen, a veterinary science professor at Utrecht University, said in an interview. After all, if you eliminate animal feed, transport, land use and methane, (not to mention inhumane treatment) is it a problem? Is it really meat?
"Keeping animals just to eat them is in fact not so good for the environment," said Roelen. "Animals need to grow, and animals produce many things that you do not eat."
Roelen suggests that th...
as much as you can feel bad about eating animals, i don't think i would ever feel bad enough to eat this...JB
its about time. but i will miss saying "dewey decimal system"...JB
The London Book Project is a free book exchange on a massive scale. Using the London Underground as a high speed distribution network, we aim to bring real literature to London's commuters. Scrap the freesheets - read a free book instead!Link (Thanks, Chris!)Over the next two weeks we'll be distributing thousands of second hand books across the tube and we want YOU to get involved. If you see one of our books, please pick it up! Then read it and replace with any book of your choice. Let's make the tube a giant, free library! Meanwhile, browse our website to find out more about the London Book Project and some alternative reporting about the world's most diverse capital city.
good idea. can we do this in NY...JB
This week's issue of The Economist reports on an interesting scheme proposed by Alfred Y. Wong, professor of physics and director of the Plasma Physics Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, to rid the Earth of carbon dioxide emissions. Wong posits that a conveyor built in the Arctic could take advantage of the Earth's magnetic field to expel emissions into outer space.
The Antarctic and the Arctic are the only two sites on the planet above which the sky opens up to space. There, particles from the sun that get through and cross the...
i don't know if this is a good idea...JB
this is crazy. there must be a way to prevent birds and bats from flying into the wind turbines...JB
LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots presents Robosonic Eclectic: Live Music by Robots and Humans
Performing Live:
They Might Be Giants: Robots + John and John
JG Thirlwell (Foetus): Robots + string quartet
Morton Subotnick: Robots + live percussion
George Lewis: Robots + virtuoso jazz trombone
Plus Solo Robot Works by:
R. Luke DuBois and J. Brendan Adamson
interesting...JB
