Aphex Twin, a musical visionary capable of twisting your head in knots, blew the audience away with his performance on Saturday at L.E.D. Festival. He was greeted with uncertainty as to what he would deliver, but his mixture of hectic beats, dreamy melody and the occasional dubstep vibe kept the crowd on their toes.
What took the show to even mesmerising heights however was the visual extravaganza, which at first appeared lo-fi, but progressed to a full assault on the eyes. A live facial recognition system was used to map faces in the audience and overlay the image of his own, trademark distorted face.
The juxtaposition of the MC’s in bunny outfits was also brilliant.
IBM’s current campaign is about how if we record and try to understand data we can create a ‘smarter planet’ – a philosophy that I share.
This video is a behind the scenes look into the production of the advertising, with interesting insights and interviews with the ‘Code Artists’ that are able to generate the stunning visuals with only code.
Precious is a touring bike completely fitted-out with sensors, capturing data using its Arduino brain and interpretting all of its experiences, combined with a cloud-based system that analyzes those experiences.
Put this all together and get a bike that’s able to express itself in his own words. He shares his up-to-the-moment thoughts and has a subconscious which allows him to dream about all he’s been through.
The bike has been developed by Breakfast and is currently making it’s way across the US to benefit LIVESTRONG®.
I would love my bike kitted-out for a race like this.
Check out the site or follow the bike on twitter to see what’s happening now.
These guys in Berlin have built a slingshot that allows you to type in a message, take aim and shoot it onto a wall, appearing as a coloured splash with the message written within. The text message will also be real-time tweeted. The whole setup, obviously needs a projector to display the message.
A really nice play on the whole urban tagging pasttime.
Experimental art and design studio Troika comissioned by the V&A, have installed a permanent kinetic sign that directs visitors to the museum from the tunnel at South Kensington tube station.
The sign draws on the museums wealth of artifacts to create what resembles a time capsule, attached to the ceiling. The Alan Fletcher designed logo de-contructs and reconnects itself with each half turn forming a playful palindrome legible from either side while the wheels produce a gentle ticking sound reminiscent of a Victorian Automaton clock.
As one who is always excited by the latest 3D movie offering, I can’t wait to see Toy Story 3. Until I get around toisiting the cinema however, I’ll have to make do with this amazing physics engine developed Thiago Costa. The engine features:
Awesome new video for Massive Attack by the talented digital artists at UVA. The video was designed using custom 3D software developed by UVA (presumably with OpenFrameworks), which allowed the creation of spontaneous, organic forms, simply by “sketching” the outlines.
I would love to see the production process in action.
It’s also the first Massive Attack tune that I’ve liked in quite a while.
Brooklyn based duo Sweat Shoppe has developed a technique for painting videos onto building surfaces, with the aim of exploring the relationship between video, mark making and architecture.
From the looks of it; I would guess that the system tracks the movement of the neon roller and creates a mask behind it that reveals the video.
