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Pulse is a live visualization project by Berlin-based artist Markus Kison. It’s based around a shapeshifting, heart-like object that reacts to the emotions expressed by the authors of private weblogs on blogger.com. A program aggregates words in blogs’ text and scans for synonyms that correlate with the emotional concepts in Robert Plutchik’s three-dimensional circumplex model describing the psychoevolutionary theory of emotion. The more one a the emotions is represented, the more corresponding portion of the organism is mechanically activated. Blurring the lines between art and technology, Pulse uses data to create the very organic visualization. read more

Here is an update on the CARDBOARD SURFBOARD PROJECT or, Cross-sectional Notched Rib Assembly for Aquatic Sliding Boards. We have included a great little video and a link to the site. Have a look on (sheldrake.net) for more information on the development process of this project.

A great exhibition on R. Buckminster Fuller is currently on view June 26 - September 21, 2008 @ the Whitney. There is a great collection of videos on the site and some basic background info that would bring you up to speed if you knew very little about Fuller. We will have some tricks & treats  dealing with Buckminster’s work later in the week, for now have a look at the video below. read more

BMW’s recently opened museum in Munich contains a new  kinetic sculpture comprising 714 metallic balls suspended in air creating a wave of undulating orbs that appear to weightlessly float. via engadget

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Chronotopic Anamorphosis from Marginalia Project on Vimeo.

The above is a slick little video by Marginalia Project. 1:39-1:44 is by far my favorite moment. Boooooooo–P!!!

Text taken from the Processing site

This project was made more as a programming exercise intending to transpose the effect accomplished by Zbigniew Rybczynki in his film “The Fourth Dimension” to real-time video. read more

Magnetic fields are invisible, at least usually. But Scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory have figured out how to make them visible, showing them dancing in an absolutely gorgeous movie called, appropriately enough, Magnetic Movie. via gizmodo

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Solo installation from Claudio Sinatti on Vimeo.

Claudio Sinatti was commissioned to shoot Italian footballer Marco Materazzi for the Nike “Art of Football” exhibition. He built a special frame to hang on the player to film from all angles while he kicked the pig’s bladder around. read more

It was 2yrs ago when Easton+Combs & the “Super Team” were narrowly defeated in a close fought battle for the hearts and minds of the good people in Hendersonville, N Carolina. There is no need to get into the specifics because it does not look like the project will be going forward for the winning team but we managed to grab some national television exposure w/ this 30sec spot. read more

FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment.

Not sure if the image and movie are renderings or the real thing. Either way the site opens up the process and technical underpinnings that are valuable in an of themselves. If they ever  get this built I  am sure it will be mesmerizing.

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There is a great video coming from Andrew Payne over @ liftarchitects that begins to explain Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures. He goes into a much deeper description on his site and has the file available for download. >enjoy