Cubism was the art world’s response to photographic realism. But in this week’s Shooting Challenge, the photographers answer back to the cubists—combining multiple perspectives into a single photos to create striking, confounding photographic works of art. More »
Mini held an event at their showroom in Ginza over the weekend that saw the art unit Rinpa Eshidan painting a Mini Cooper over two days.
The “What is Mini Ginza?” promotional event was designed to inject “fun” into automotive and to draw some of the Ginza shoppers down to the far end of Chuodori where the showroom is located. Much of the pedestrian traffic tends to gather around the main Ginza junction and fizzle out once you pass the main department stores. Mini is right at the end so they need to fight hard to combat any appearances of languishing.
The Rinpa Eshidan event was also filmed and the resulting vehicle/art work will be on display until November 28th.
The showroom itself, which opened earlier this year, looks pretty cool and is another example of a building deliberately designed low (it’s “mini”, get it?) to stand out from its neighbors. This is a bit of an architectural trend in Tokyo retail of late and we will be keeping our eyes out for more.
Everyone hates Apple products. That’s why there’s so much documentation of people going to great lengths to torture and destroy them.
While I don’t have any hard data, I imagine the vast majority of Apple products are purchased for the express purpose of destroying them as soon as they are unboxed.
Some might think this is a waste of time and a not-inconsequential amount of recession-era money. But those people would be wrong, I can think of very little that would be more important.
That’s why I would like to personally nominate giving a Congressional Medal of Honor to graphic artist Michael Tompert for his collaboration with photographer Paul Fairchild who wisely chose to purchase various forms of Apple gadgetry in order to (artistically) eviscerate them.
The end results are actually pretty striking and strangely beautiful. If the point of art is to create something that’s captivating while making choices no one else has thought to do before, then these guys are winners at the game of art.
The series was part of a display of large briefly shown at San Francisco’s Live Worms Gallery.
More images after the jump.
via Cult of Mac, Fubiz; images via both
NYU prof installing camera in the back of his head, JW Parker Middle School teachers insanely jealous originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Some might call it plagiarism, but the knock-off is an art form all its own. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, Gizmodo’s readers assembled to duplicate or parody some of the most iconic photographs in history. (Light NSFW content follows.) More »
Across much of the world, autumn is the most beautiful time of the year. To celebrate, Gizmodo photographers assembled en masse to capture every color and texture of the season, just to share here with you. More »
There comes a time when fiddly buttons and D-pads just don’t do it anymore, a time when you need a little more control. Nintendo was first of the current generation to show its hand with the fling-sensitive Wiimote, and of course Sony and Microsoft are both now doing similarly intended things with the PlayStation Move and the Kinect, respectively. Now THQ is trying to do its own little new thing by launching the $69.99 uDraw Gametablet on the Wii, supplanting the wavy wand with a stylus. Next logical step in gaming? Tool to unleash a torrent of creativity? Half-baked third-party accessory? Read on to find out.
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THQ uDraw Gametablet for Wii review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Natural reefs are under attack from a number of man-made environmental pressures. Feeling guilty? Good, you should. Thankfully, humans can also create coral reefs by submerging objects for coral to latch onto. And artist Jason deCaires Taylor has found an innovative and beautiful way to build new reef: by concocting a breathtaking underwater statue garden he calls Silent Evolution.
Taylor, an artist with a background in graffiti art and SCUBA diving, has made a name for himself with various underwater projects. With Silent Revolution, he has created an underwater installation featuring 400 life-sized human sculptures out of pH-neutral concrete reinforced with fiberglass. The project can be found off the coast of Cancun, Mexico and is open to tourists and divers.
Besides helping to keep our oceans vibrant, the work makes for gorgeous visual photo candy. See more examples after the jump, or at Taylor’s Silent Revolution site.
Take your DSLR in one hand. Unscrew the lens with the other. Tilt the lens away from the camera body-maybe even flip the optics backwards. And take photos that you never imagined you could without expensive upgrades. More »
You are standing in an open field as usual, or perhaps you’re in the darkness, likely to be eaten by a grue, but the words aren’t etching their way into your soul from the familiar computer terminal — they’re on freshly printed paper. Like a player piano, the Automatypewriter lets you play games like Zork by automatically keying in letters via a series of solenoids and fishing line to tell you where you are, and it records your input, too; every time you type “XYZZY” in vain, it’s an Arduino board that sends signals to the text parser, which directs a hollow voice to pity your foolish word. Forget the iPad typewriter — this is old-school. See it in action after the break, or hit the source link for the schematics to build one yourself. Just be sure to install Planetfall, too.
Interactive fiction meets interactive typewriter, pilfers the kingdoms of Zork (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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