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July 13th, 2008

New Radiohead Video - Shot with Lasers, Not Cameras

Radiohead new music video for House of Cards is shot without using cameras at all. Directed by James Frost, the video use two new technologies to capture detailed 3D images 900 times per minutes. More info about the technology can be found here. Thanks to Miguex for the video link !

July 8th, 2008

Pulse - shapeshifting emotion visualisation

Pulse is a live visualisation of the recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs of blogger.com. These emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms and transform a physical shapeshifting object.

Video: Quicktime | Youtube

April 13th, 2008

Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

Researcher Johnny Lee demos new Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.

Video

March 31st, 2008

Bjork’s Wanderlust video

Nearly a year in the making, the Bjork’s video for Wanderlust, directed by Encyclopedia Pictura, is finally here.

Watch it: Low res | Quicktime

See also: The making off | Interview with the directors

March 9th, 2008

I Want You to Want Me

I Want You to Want Me explores the search for love and self in the world of online dating.

I Want You to Want Me is a project created by Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar, commissioned by the MoMA for their Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition. A small video can be found here

See also: The Whale Hunt | The Universe | We Feel Fine

March 2nd, 2008

Design and the Elastic Mind

"In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance."

The exhibition and the website include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale.

Design and the Elastic Mind
February 24–May 12, 2008 at the MoMA.

February 26th, 2008

Hitchcock Classics Re-created

Alfred Hitchcock (info) created some of the most arresting images in film history. 21 actors have joined with four Vanity Fair photographers to re-create 11 of Hitchcock most iconic scenes

Images above: Dial M for Murder, 1954 (Charlize Theron - Photograph by Norman Jean Roy). North by Northwest, 1959 (Seth Rogen - Photograph by Art Streiber). The Birds, 1963 (Jodie Foster - Photograph by Norman Jean Roy). Psycho, 1960 (Marion Cotillard - Photograph by Mark Seliger).

See also: Behind the Scenes | Making-off video

February 2nd, 2008

Solar

Update: The version with lyrics can be found here

Solar is a great music video for The Flashbulb, made by Flight 404 with processing. More details can be found here.

See also Magnetic Ink

January 26th, 2008

Interactive Façades

City Of Sound has posted a series of notes on the contemporary façade, from expressive and performative to responsive and interactive.

Related videos: SPOTS, Berlin, Kunsthaus, Graz, KPN Buidling, Rotterdam, Blinkenlights, Berlin, Chanel, Ginza, Galleria West shopping center, Seoul, Dexia Tower, Brussels, Uniqa Tower, Vienna

December 8th, 2007

Funky Forest: Interactive Ecosytem

Funky Forest is an interactive ecosystem where children create trees with their body and then divert the water flowing from the waterfall to the trees to keep them alive. The health of the trees contributes to the overall health of the forest and the types of creatures that inhabit it.

Video | Walktrough

December 3rd, 2007

Banksy returns to Bethlehem

Banksy has painted new murals on the West Bank barrier which runs beside
Bethlehem.

The murals are part of an exhibition in Bethlehem opening on Monday. Several other international and Palestinian artists are taking part.

Here, in the town of Jesus's birth, an Israeli soldier examines the ID card of the Christmas donkey.

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November 24th, 2007

Nokia lights up Regent Street in London

To advertise the imminent arrival of its flagship London store, Nokia has joined forces with W+K London to introduce the first interactive Christmas lights display. Fourteen motion sensor LED light structures now line Regent Street and have the ability to shift colour formations in response to crowd density, wind speed, weather and levels of sunlight. The lights can be viewed on Regent Street until January 6. View video

Designed by UVA and the P2 Group | Via