Category Archives: Art

“Video painting” is the new graffiti

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In an effort to establish new platforms for public art and performance, the multimedia duo SWEATSHOPPE has developed a new interactive technology that enables them to explore the relationship between video, mark making and architecture. Dubbed “video painting,” this technology allows them to essentially “paint” video onto any surface.

Wooster Collective does some ‘plainin’: “The software controlling the video was written in Max. The paint roller does not use any sort of paint, it simply contains green LEDs. The software tracks the color green and outputs the x y position which are sent to drawing commands and the strokes are textured with video.”

[Via Gizmodo; vimeo page; WoosterCollective]

Marge Simpson in Playboy..revealed!

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Remember that cover image of Marge Simpsonon the latest issue of Playboy?  If there were any doubters that it was a fake they will be silenced today.  Marge Simpson’s pictorial has been revealed.  In addition to the–..hrm..I’m not sure how to describe it..–photo above, be sure to check out the gallery below for the others.

If you like what you see, the November issue of Playboy Magazine is out on newsstands now.

[Via FameCrawler;Reelloop]

Glow in the Dark tour photo book

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This collection of images documents Kanye West’s 2008 Glow in the Dark tour.  According to Examiner: “The 288-page book provides a look at on stage performances, behind-the-scenes shots, conceptual sketches by West, costume designs, and stage models. It also includes an audio CD featuring the previously unreleased live instrumentals for “Hey Mama,” “Touch the Sky,” “Jesus Walks,” and “I Wonder,” as well as an interview with video and film director Spike Jonze.”

The book is designed by Base, published by Rizzoli, and includes pictures by Nabil Elderkin, who directed West’s “Paranoid” and “Welcome to Heartbreak” music videos.  You can preorder it here or here to book for $30.

[Via KanyeBlog]

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Digital wallpaper

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Created by Strukt Design Studio.

To decorate the office space of Büro Hirzberger in Vienna Strukt realised a digital wallpaper that illuminates the walls. In this self-initated project Strukt was given complete creative freedom by the client, and developed a system to project video and realtime content undistorted onto any surface.

The basic idea was to light up the black and white striped office wall by mapping the architecture with multitple projectors. The program developed by Strukt is scripted in vvvv and is scaleable to any number of projectors and any architectural shape. Several different visualisations have been realised already, amongst it a Pac Man animation as well as moving stripes, and more are in development. The content could also be made interactive, reacting to people passing the ground-floor offices.

Very, very neat indeed.

[Via Gizmodo; Strukt]

The dervish lamp

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Created by Philippe Malouin Design.

While borrowing a friend’s car for the day, I decided to have it washed to show my gratitude. I pulled into an automated carwash, and while inside, I couldn’t help but notice how the carwash brushes completely alter their shape from flimsy drooping hair covered rods to massive powerful beams. Could this quality of transformation be applied to the home sector? Where would a transforming apparatus find use in the home?

The carwash brushes go from limp, to cones, to beams. A lamp could use this whimsical feature to direct light, from a tube of light to a cone, to an open light source. The contraption, with its spinning, would produce a rather considerable amount of wind. Ceiling fans have not changed in the slightest ever since their introduction. Apart from finishes and rotation speed, they have always remained rather dull.

By morphing the ever-changing carwash brushes with a ceiling fan, a new product is achieved and completely redefines ceiling fans. The piece is called Dervish, its spinning qualities remind one of the Turkish spinning dancers going in a trance.

[Via Gizmodo; Philippe Malouin Deisgn]