Extracts of local Distance is a project by Frederic Gmeiner, Torsten Posselt and Benjamin Maus.
Architectural photography is analyzed according to their vanishing-points and shapes. Based on this analysis, slices are being extracted from the source image. These slices are then rearranged in a new composition.
[via nerdcore, designboom]
Seeing this video of the Flyfire project from MIT’s senseable city lab I had to think of the above project by swiss artist Roman Signer.
“The Twitwee Clock is a modified Cuckoo Clock that wirelessly connects to the internet and constantly checks for new status updates or search results from Twitter. New Tweets are displayed on the built-in display in near-realtime accompanied by the charming yet obtrusive call of a mechanical cuckoo poping out of the clock.”
Please see the project page for more information.
Do you still tag by hand?
Concept: Evan Roth
Programming & Production: Golan Levin
Machining & Motion Planning: Jeremy Ficca
So-called CAPTCHAs, which are capable to tell humans and computers apart, can be found beneath almost all web forms (and the trend seems to continue).
The project Are you human? by Aram Bartholl, transfers theese typical CAPTCHA texts as tags into the public space.
upside down face is a series of photographs of people hanging upside down by their ankles. The project was done by Bruton Stroube Studios. Read more about it on their blog, or see a making of here.
Because we allways wanted to know how it looks, when a fully equipped kitchen starts rotating.
To be seen in the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
For each unique visitor it receives, the website temporary.cc deletes part of itself until it is becoming a blank white website. Its existence will be remembered only by those who saw or heard about it.
A project by Zach Gage.
