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They Rule + Greenpeace = Exposed ExxonMobil Secrets
The secret’s out. Climate sceptics being funded by ExxonMobil can no longer hide behind the name of a front group. A new website – www.exxonsecrets.org – exposes the links between ExxonMobil money and the think tanks, associations and individuals denying global warming. Don’t buy Mobil. Don’t buy Esso. Via Greenpeace.org, attention drawn by information aesthetics, [...]
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Code Flinging Warriors
1. Two web artists (net.legends) will face-off in a ring to alter a web page – the cyber-ring — live. The resulting changes will be seen by the public on a screen and by web surfers on the net. 2. The artists will face-off for three hours using their skills of design and hacking to [...]
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I/O Brush: Photographic paintbrush that paints with movement and colour
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up [...]
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Flickeur – create a unique film with a click
Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. I’m intrigued by this, think about it for a minute, the mashup of creative content is inspired. Firstly individual photographers take photos and post them to flickr.com, a digital [...]
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Transformers take over Uxbridge
Chris Rose, designer, has remixed a series of photos of London’s Brunel Universities Uxbridge Campus. See all the photos here. Via Boing Boing
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Dr.D Coldplay diagnosis at Brit Awards
“This evening at 10:00 pm dr.d hit a billboard bang opposite the Brit awards, the British music industry’s annual self-congratulatory love-fest. For all their talk of fair trade, presumably Chris Martin and the other boys in Coldplay do not mind performing at a heavily policed event sponsored by Mastercard from which the people who actually [...]
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SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network
The SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network (formerly AI to the People) project asks the question: If computer vision technology can be used to detect when you look like a terrorist, criminal, or other “undesirable” – why not when you look like a rock star?
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Erwin Wurm exhibits me
Went and saw the Erwin Wurm: Glue Your Brain exhibition at the MCA Sydney on Saturday morning, with my good friend Melissa. Not only did we laugh and contemplate the humour and irony of Mr Wurm’s work, but we also took part in the exhibition. These shots were taken on my camera phone.
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Urban Chaos >> Manipulative Grafitti
Look I know I should be writing my own impression of the stuff that inspires me, but I’m still in holiday mode – forgive. So, there’s a kid called Piero who’s incredibly cool…so cool that he created loads of street sign manipulation stickers as part of a school project (some of you may know how [...]
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Greyworlds Urban Sketches
“Greyworld’s Urban Sketches installation (click gallery/new media) is an interactive work that makes the space and its inhabitants both the subject of the work and its authors. A hidden camera records the space and its inhabitants, the mirror like screen becoming the visual palette for an altered version of the captured reality. The volume of [...]
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Transparent Billboards
So I’m checking out Neural.it, and follow a link to the Billboard Liberation Front and found this inspiring photography project by Kasia Kesicka. It mimics the flickr pool on transparent screens but is nonetheless inspired. Make sure you explore the Billboard Liberation Front there’s some fantastic Ad jamming. We offer a broad range of black-bag [...]
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Interactive Mechanical Mirrors
The 4 mechanical mirrors are made of various materials but share the same behavior and interaction; any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly reflected on its surface. The mechanical mirrors all have video cameras, motors and computers on board and produce a soothing sound as the viewer interacts with them. [...]
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Safe Bedside Table or a journey to the Dark Side
It is reported that 50% of people in London are worried about security and sleep with some form of self-defence to hand, for use against intruders. Doesn’t fear turn to anger, anger turn to hate and then you turn to the dark side? James McAdam is an industrial designer visit his portfolio and the Safe [...]
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Dot Matrix Building