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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

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

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

It’s a modified DIY hexapod robot with a motorized Dremel-tool nose, and Matt’s written some code that lets the robot move the cutting tool with precision, so it acts like a little precision CNC mill. And it’s amazing: wait til you see the video of it in action, carving out a model. But is this project a scary step towards self-replicating ‘bots? via gizmodo read more

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

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008. Lee became a YouTube star with his demo of Wii Remote hacks — bending the low-cost game piece to power an interactive whiteboard, a multitouch surface, a head-mounted display …Why you should listen to him:To understand Johnny Lee, just take a look at his personal Projects page. Aside from his Wii Remote hacks — voted the #1 tech demo of all time by Digg — you can see all the other places his mind has turned: typography, photography, urban renewal … to say nothing of his interesting sideline in Little Great Ideas, like the hypnotic “___ will ___ you.” read more

Lets face it walking sucks! Most people don’t even know how to do it properly. Shufflers, bouncers, excessive arm swingers, non arm swingers and my favorite, the ones that don’t know what side of the sidewalk to walk on. I don’t even know why we bother. Why can’t we have a magical device w/ millions of tiny feet that moves us around? BAM! Segway’s new RMP is here. 48 nubs is nowhere near a million but it is a good start. read more