Movie posters should be less cliched and more spoiler-y. I don’t want to see scantily clad actresses from behind (yes I do), I want to know what’s gonna happen in the movie! Like these posters made by designer Matteo Civaschi. They’re like movie hieroglyphics—you can actually decipher what the movie is going to be about. More »
Art is rather like beauty – in that it’s always in the eye of the beholder. One of the strangest art projects I’ve heard of in a while has turned up in the form of a cardboard box packed with a hidden camera. The box was mailed to Julian Assange using the Royal Mail.
Inside the box is a camera set up to take an image of what it sees outside every 10 seconds and posts the image to the web. At first, there was nothing compelling about the images – often nothing but black. The image above is a nice, boring shot of a wall. However, it looks like the package has actually reached its destination as of tonight, as you can see from the images below:
Yep, that’s Julian Assange in the flesh. If you’re curious to see what the package (and Julian) are up to, you can follow it live over on Twitter.
Assange, as you might know, is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange can’t leave the embassy out of fear that UK authorities will arrest him for his work with his Wikileaks website. Assange was given political asylum by Ecuador in August 2012 and has lived in the embassy since June of 2012.
[via Archive.is]
There’s something magical about being able to control the weather, especially if there’s a way to improve it. Personally, I’d like to have some sort of device in my backyard so I can make sure that it won’t rain when I barbecue in the summer. While that might not be something you can buy today, it is feasible to tweak weather conditions in small areas.
Media artist Karolina Sobecka developed a machine for weather modification, after she was inspired by the idea of artificially generated climate change. The Cloud Machine is made up of gear that’s sent up into the atmosphere, attached to a weather balloon. Once it reaches the right altitude, it disperses ‘cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), heat, and water vapor. Moisture in the air condenses into fog droplets around the CCN, creating small clouds.
The goal of this was to create brighter, more reflective clouds that will better shield the Earth’s surface from the Sun’s radiation, partially counteracting global warming in the immediate vicinity. While I’m not sure about the science behind that concept, it’s still cool that you can make your own weather.
[via Creative Applications via designboom]
Sometimes people do bizarre things and try to call it art. Such is the case with what is being called a live mail art piece that has been sent to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. As you might recall Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June of 2012.
Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador in August of 2012, but he is unable to leave the embassy because he fears being arrested by authorities in the UK. Assange landed in hot water for leaking confidential documents via his website Wikileaks. The artwork in question at this point is a package that someone has dropped in the mail and sent to Assange via the Royal Mail.
The package isn’t exactly normal and has a camera hidden inside that is able to take photographs of what is going on outside the box every 10 seconds. The package was mailed on Wednesday, January 16 and is expected to arrive at its destination within 24 hours. The person who sent the package says that if the first one fails to reach Assange, a second and even third attempt will be made.
So for the images the camera system has taken are incredibly boring. The camera is designed to snap a picture every 10 seconds and upload it live to the web at the source link at the bottom of the source page. The image you see above is a nice shot of the wall behind the package as it sits somewhere. Underneath the live pictures are some descriptions of what’s been going on, and again the descriptions are incredibly boring.
[via Archive.is]
Bizarre live mail art piece sent to Julian Assange is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Audi and art? Those two worlds aren’t ones we’d necessarily lump together. But the luxury car-maker’s done just that, collaborating with Slot Mods USA to create the “quattro experience,” an installation replete with remote controllable A4 replicas and a custom track. Let’s be clear, though, this is no mere hobbyist recreation. As the accompanying mini-documentary shows, the team behind this project not only put great care into constructing the 20ft x 7ft custom track with the right bends, it also faithfully crafted the slot cars so as to mimic the Audi quattro’s all wheel drive mechanic.
So, how’d they do that? Through a combo of 3D printing, a four-wheel drive chassis and, most importantly, a calculated arrangement of traction magnets, the crew was able to get the cars up and running, and even outfitted with in-dash cams. And, in an appropriate modernist twist, there’s an app for all of that — a custom one designed by Audi that runs on the iPad and lets “drivers” steer via a POV feed and onscreen controls. Unfortunately, the whole shebang’s only on display in Toronto for the time being. So, unless you’re planning a trip to the Great White North anytime soon, the mini-doc after the break’s about as close as you’re going to get to the real thing.
Filed under: Misc
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Audi
Everyone wants you to share. Share the music you listen to, the movies you watch, the articles you read, the books you read. So Johannes Osterhoff is sharing, just with the guy in charge. More »
There’s a little known species of Wookiee that is often seen walking out of the ocean, known as Seaweed Wookiees. Okay, that’s a lie, but it would be cool to have ocean dwelling Wookiees that attacked folks on land. For now, all we have is this image from friends of redditor entreprenerds, who assembled this seaweed critter on a beach in Queensland.
It’s pretty cool and I never would have thought that seaweed would have made such good Wookiee fur. And yes, nerds, we are aware that his bandolier is on the wrong shoulder. I must be a super nerd myself, because it was the first thing that I noticed. If it bothers you that much, just do a horizontal transform in Photoshop and you’ll be fine.
It kind of looks like a Chewbacca scarecrow – which I would also like to see. Maybe this guy can help out with my request.
[via Neatorama]
The human figure is one of the most classic motifs in art. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you used modern camera equipment to reimagine shape and movement. The results are fantastic. More »
Google loves inspiring kids to go wild with ideas in its annual Doodle 4 Google competition, and that tradition is carrying on for 2013. This year’s just-started drawing exhibition asks American kids to visualize what they imagine would be their best day ever — no mean feat, as you’ll see in the video after the break. The K-12 student who wins on the national level may find all that daydreaming worth the effort, however, as the top prizes are about as grand as they were for 2012. Along with seeing their drawing become the homepage doodle for a day, the top-ranking child gets a $50,000 technology grant for their current school, a $30,000 college scholarship, a Chromebook and a Wacom tablet to foster that now-obvious creative talent. Budding young artists need to get their entries to Google’s real or virtual doorsteps by March 22nd; we have a hunch the winner’s best day ever will be May 23rd, when millions of searchers will catch a glimpse of that early magnum opus.
Continue reading Doodle 4 Google 2013 challenges kids to dream big, describe their best day (video)
Via: SlashGear
Source: Doodle 4 Google
We’re a massive fan of the invisible Chinese artist Liu Bolin, and he’s at it again. A new exhibition at Galerie Paris-Beijing is showcasing his latest work and our favorite—unsurprisingly!—is this one, where he’s hiding in front of a wall of mobile phones. Can you spot him? [Galerie Paris-Beijing via Design Boom] More »
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