CRUMPLED CITY
(Thanks, Emanuele!)
Shown here, images from Audrey Penven's photography series 'Dancing with Invisible Light: A series of interactions with Kinect's infrared structured light.' From her description of the project:
With these images I was exploring the unique photographic possibilities presented by using a Microsoft Kinect as a light source. The Kinect - an inexpensive videogame peripheral - projects a pattern of infrared dots known as 'structured light'. Invisible to the eye, this pattern can be captured using an infrared camera.
The Kinect uses the deformation of this dot pattern to derive 3D information about its subjects (an ability which has already spawned an explosion of incredible digital art).
As a photographer I am most interested in the nature and quality of light: how light behaves in the physical world, and how it interacts with and affects the subjects that it illuminates. For this shoot my models and I were essentially working blind, with the results visible only after each image was captured. Together, we explored the unique physicality of structured light, finding our way in the darkness by touch and intuition. Dancing with invisible light.
Dig the crazy lens flares the Kinect light creates in the shot below!
Related coolness at openkinect.org.
Credits:
Models: qtrnevermore, C. King, Mike Estee, Sloane Soleil, Helyx, Star St. Germain, Ian Baker, Annetta Black, Josh St. John.
Assistants: Aaron Muszalski, Ian Baker, Mike Estee
An earlier photo set is also online here.
(Thanks, sfslim!)
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1) Be original.
I aim to make art so original that no one will question who made it.
2) Sell only live art.
I've given up on the idea that art in reproduction is for sale and I focus on making work that is better in person than in reproduction.
3) Pursue credit in innovative ways.
No one has ever claimed a reproduction of my work as their own, but when I've known about images of my work being used without any mention of my name I've approached the situation as a teaching opportunity or used it as an illustrative point.
4) Embrace the copying of style.
Lots of people make originals that resemble mine somewhat, and it makes me feel pretty good about my work.
5) Don't assume that anyone is copying style.
It's usually pretty difficult to be sure that anyone is copying anyone else. That said, if another artist was making and selling works that I was certain were copies of my paintings, I would probably talk about them on my blog. It would drive Internet traffic looking for them to me.
6) Be clear about what you want from the world and from the Internet.
I make sure everyone knows where I stand with regards to copyright. At the bottom of every page of my site, there's a smiley face instead of a ©. Click on the face and it takes you to a page that fully explains my beliefs.
How I make sure my art doesn't get ripped off on the Internet
(via David Isenberg)
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Banana mania - Repper experimentation
(Thanks, Walter!)
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ReBirth for iPad
is a $15 multitouch synthesizer that emulates the Roland TB-303 Bass synth and the Roland TR-808 and 909 drum machines. You can create music on it and output the songs as MP3s.Combine these with FX units, fully featured pattern sequencers and a gorgeous-looking interface and you're ready to make killer tracks on your iPad. Share your music with friends on Facebook, Twitter and more using the built in sharing features.
Alan sez, 'I love this video, done by Sean Wainsteim for You Say Party's'Lonely Lunch.' It looks like a standard science fiction mini-story, but set in the crowded streets and alleys of an early-21st century Indian city such as Mumbai.'
What he said -- not my kind of music particularly, but boy, those are definitely my kind of visuals. Thronged Asian city stalked by high-tech plague doctor swat teams? Yes please.
YOU SAY PARTY 'Lonely's Lunch' [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
(Thanks, Alan!)
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A reader writes, "From Austin City Limits (2010) Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers perform his original a capella 'gospel' tune for the non-believers among us."
Steve Martin: Atheists Don't Have No Songs
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Asher Bradshaw is a six-year old skateboard wizard: watch him thrash like a fiend at the Venice Beach skate-park and marvel.
6 year old skateboarder Asher Bradshaw at Venice Beach Skatepark
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Each of the ideas in the film treat the surface as a focus, rather than the channel or the content delivered. Here, media includes messages from friends and social services, like foursquare or Twitter, and also more functional messages from companies or services like banks or airlines alongside large traditional big 'M' Media (like broadcast or news publishing).
All surfaces have access to connectivity. All surfaces are displays responsive to people, context, and timing. If any surface could show anything, would the loudest or the most polite win? Surfaces which show the smartest most relevant material in any given context will be the most warmly received.
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My friend Louis Rossetto of Tcho told me about the gorgeous eCLOUD, created by Dan Goods, Nik Hafermaas, and Aaron Koblin. It's on permanent display between gates 22 and 23 at the San Jose International Airport. I'll be checking it out in a couple of weeks when I'm there.
The eCLOUD is a dynamic sculpture inspired by the volume and behavior of an idealized cloud. Made from unique polycarbonate tiles that can fade between transparent and opaque states, its patterns are transformed periodically by real time weather from around the world.
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