This longboard features a tablet computer, Kinect, and 800-watt electric motor, and reaches a max speed of 32 MPH.
Chaotic Moon Labs’ “Board of Awesomeness” is intended as a technology teaser to show how perceptive computing can turn around the way we look at user experiences. The project utilizes a Microsoft Kinect device, Samsung Windows 8 tablet, a motorized longboard, and some standard and custom hardware to create a longboard that watches the user to determine what to do rather than have the operator use a wired or wireless controller. The project uses video recognition, speech recognition, localization data, accelerometer data, and other factors to determine what the user wants to do and allows the board to follow the operators commands without additional aid.
But what happens when you hit a bump and your hands accidentally wave around and set off the Kinect? [via Hacked Gadgets]
Ghost Drummer
is a multidisciplinary project that explores graphic qualities in process of playing on a drum kit. Besides being a musician, drummer when playing is unconsciously engaged in an elaborate choreography. The drum sticks are the extensions of drummer’s hands like a brush is an extension of the painter’s hand. Motion-captured movements become a visual map over a time revealing fragile rhythm structures and invisible notations behind energetic instrumental solo. ‘Portrait of a Ghost Drummer’ expands the understanding of drummers activity from purely auditory experience to spontaneous visual performance. From technical point of view motion trajectory was captured on Vicon MX system and raw CSV files were translated into visual language in 3d environment Cinema4D. My self-developed technique is inspired by areas such as drumming notation, action painting, choreography, japanese calligraphy and 3d digital drawing. Most important for me is that it gives me true feeling that I am my drawing.
“When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It is only after a sort of ‘get acquainted’ period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”
— Jackson Pollock, My Painting, 1956 (source: wikipedia)
I worked on this animation during my recent artistic residency at Culture Lab in Newcastle. I would like to thank Atau Tanaka, Pussykrew, David Green & all Culture Lab team.
(Source: fastcodesign.com)
The Bark Side
2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser.
Dogs in advertising in a cool way? Not possible? It is!
Being Elmo
a film by Constance Marks about Sesame Street’s Senior Puppet Coordinator and creator of Elmo, Kevin Clash. This is a must-see documentary if there ever was one! Magical from beginning to end.
Melting Pot
(Interactive Dance Installation) @Babylon Lounge (01.03.2010) (par NODEBASED)
Sync by Max Hattler
A simple but mind blowing looping circular video projection. Reminds of the Eames films and their ability to create hypnotic transcendence.
Winner of the Visual Music Award 2011 Special Prize, the Award for Best Video Installation at Multivision Festival 2011, and a Special Mention at Premio Simona Gesmundo 2011. 
(Source: maxhattler.com)
by Sebastian Campion installed a giant 3D computer cursor in a city square. It was embedded with GPS device that transmitted its movements so that its location could be tracked using Google Maps. Users were encouraged to move the object around and track the movement on the site.
After The Mona Lisa 8
is constructed from 1482 larger spools of thread so the image resolution is very low. Yet when seen through a viewing sphere, the thread spools condense into a recognizable image, conveying how little information the brain needs to make sense of visual imagery it has already been exposed to.
At first glance, the thread spool installation appears to be a random arrangement of spools of thread. A clear acrylic sphere placed in front of the work, shrinks and condenses the thread spool “pixels” into a recognizable image while also rotating the imagery 180 degrees like the human eye. This shift in perception functions as a dramatic mechanism to present the idea that there is no one truth or reality, emphasizing subjective reality vs. an absolute truth.
