Aug 20
A sample of the obsessive compulsive style of art that adorns Satchels Pizza. Hands down some of the best pizza I’ve ever had, aside from the incredible atmosphere.
Aug 17
Interactive Robotic Painting Machine begs the question: Art for art’s sake, or for its master’s? (video)
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If Warhol were still around, we’re pretty sure the man would’ve snatched up this contraption as a Factory-approved objet d’art. Born from visual artist Benjamin Grosser’s existential musings regarding the soul of AI-enhanced technology, the Interactive Robotic Painting Machine lets the sounds of its environment be its canvas maneuvering guide. For what it’s worth, the artist claims that criticism fed into the apparatus’ microphone often results in less than stellar compositions from the fine art automaton. We’ll refrain from speculating as to the qualitative merits of the stationary bot’s abstract flair, and leave you to the high art critique in the comments below. Be sure to jump past the break for a full video of this beaux arts concept.
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Aug 17
Microsoft Should Award Every Solitaire Winner Ever With This Sculpture
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Of course, Microsoft would be churning out more sculptures each day than new copies of Windows 7, but who wouldn’t want a physical trophy of their proudest-ever achievement? And if you’ve never seen this Solitaire waterfall before—shame on you. More »
Aug 16
Film noir. The sharp, stoic imagery is almost self-parody, this overly masculine compensation for maudlin emotion. It’s also just really creepy when someone photographs a baby this way. More »
Aug 15
After a brief hiatus, that giant Gundam statue we spotted a couple years ago has once again returned home to Tokyo — though he clearly didn’t make the voyage in one piece. Rather than reconstruct the 60-foot robot in its entirety, Bandai, the company behind the Gundam franchise, has decided to scatter its limbs, weapons and machinery all over an artificial island. For about $6.50, anime fans and Derrida enthusiasts can view the deconstructed mecha in all its glory, sit in the palm of his hand, or even use a fixed bicycle to make his head glow. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Storm past the break for an extra pic of the exhibit.
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Aug 12
Cyclone Display exemplifies ‘multi-colored expression,’ totally heading to a nightclub near you (video)
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Ever heard of Yoichi Ochiai? You have now. Hailing from Japan’s University of Tsukuba, this whizkid was on hand here at SIGGRAPH to showcase one of his latest creations — and it just so happened to be one of the trippiest yet. The Cyclone Display was a demonstration focused on visual stimulation; a projector shown above interacted with a plate of spinning disks. Underneath, a cadre of motors were controlled by a connected computer, and as the rotation and velocity changed, so did the perceived pixels and colors. The next step, according to Ochiai, would be to blow this up and shrink it down, mixing textures in with different lighting situations. With a little help, a drab nightclub could douse its walls in leopard print one night, or zebra fur another. Interactive clubbing never sounded so fun, eh? You know the drill — gallery’s below, video’s a click beneath.
Gallery: The Cyclone Display at SIGGRAPH 2011
Cyclone Display exemplifies ‘multi-colored expression,’ totally heading to a nightclub near you (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Aug 12
Vection Field controls traffic at SIGGRAPH, fictional cities from the future (video)
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So, let’s set the stage. You’re walking down a semi-busy street in a semi-foreign city. You’re curiously hanging close to the middle of the sidewalk. You bust out your smartphone and figure out that your so-called engagement just got “Complicated.” Your gait has an irregularity. You look up and spot what appears to be a local, eerily perturbed and somewhat flummoxed by your current position. You dodge left. So does he. You dodge right, knowing full well that it’ll only complicate matters when he follows suit. Before long, you’re tiptoeing around a stranger while a full-on traffic jam builds up behind you. You’ve just ruined the universe, and that’s not doing anyone any good. The solution? The University of Electro-Communications’s Vection Field, which hones in on large moving visual cues that “induce a sense of self-movement.” Funny enough, the lenticular lenses pathway here at SIGGRAPH actually worked — we never expected an optical illusion to solve such a monumental issue, but we’ll take it. Vid’s past the break, per usual.
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Aug 11
Why Is There an Art Exhibition at the Bottom of the Ocean?
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Have we run out of gallery space on dry land? Or was the temptation to attach waterproof works of art to the Vandenberg military ship off Florida’s Key West just too strong for Austrian artist/diver Andreas Franke? More »
Aug 09
79 Celebrations of Pyromania
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Fire. It’s what separates Man from the animals, warming our hearts, fueling our engines, propelling our species to fates greater than our mammalian brethren. It’s also just really neat to look at, as proven by these 79 Shooting Challenge entries. More »
Aug 05
Tomi’s halftone ‘print’ are made by drilling many, many different sized holes
Tomi of Finland (no, not that one) cuts these amazing pixelated pictures from plywood using nothing but an electric router. Well, an electric router which is steered by computer controlled servo motors and can cut the perfect-sized hole time after time.
The plywood is painted black before beginning, and then as the CNC router tirelessly carves out different sized circles the “white” part of the image is revealed. It works just like half-tone printing seen in old comic books and newspapers, only on a larger scale. It’s kind of like Roy Lichtenstein, only in plywood, and without color. Or cartoon images. And done by machines. But you get my point, right?
A typical picture will have between 3,000 and 4,000 dots, and takes the robot about an hour to complete. Tomi has also made a tabletop model of the Swiss Alps cut from 38mm (1.5-inch) MDF, but it’s these great pixel-art images that we really like.
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