interactive bar
Hurry Up Please: It's Time - Interactive Installation from vjdrmo on Vimeo.
Storming off for a rewarding Tom Yum Khai experience with a friend, so I'm brief on this one: interactive bar surface by Alex Haw, as aptly summarized by grinding.be: the more activity a person generates on the bar, the more images are created, along with an increase in movement. (link)
film industry rumour: blade runner 2 in the works
Slashfilm has a longer post on whether Travis Wright, Eagle Eye co-writer is really working on a sequel to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Travis revealed that during the past few years they (referring to John Glenn as his partner) have been working on various treatments on a sequel and not only had they worked with Bud Yorkin, BR co-executive producer, but also they are already working with a pre-visualization team on a few hunter action sequences. Screenwriter Glenn sez there actually was a time when Travis and he worked with Yorking but that was years ago. Slashfilm concludes that nothing is being developed by the studio itself, or with the studio’s involvement. (link)
[itsuki takashi の マンガ] を探している / amputee robot dolls
And you can imagine the rest. Artwork's by Itsuki Takashi, a very obscure mangaka even in Japan, the one who did Yoso no Himitsu, a manga based on a Cthulhu story by Robert Bloch. Itsuki's been known in the past few weeks via Ectomo and Coilhouse for his amputee robot doll set, partially published on the baby art blog (link one, link two).
seven scenes of ego (london, science museum)
Seven pics from the Science Museum, a place of utmost rock. This contraption above is a central hub for the comment delivery system. Visitors can leave their remarks at certain terminals that start to live a life on their own and start running around in the building, sometimes in full length, sometimes just as brief flashes of white data. You'll see more when I post my own pics, this is the end of the Girl Wonder series, I was more focused on stuff that are blog-ready.
I guess this was either Floor 1 from a half floor above or a disused Floor 3. Elevators are for the weak. One of the messages in the background explicitly details filthy details on what I did with the plastic sheets at the World of Plastic exhibition. Photoshop has an undocumented feature that can uncompress this data for you.
Topmost floor. There are huge touchscreen table games for children here and an anal probe that you can sit on and it gives you a thorough chem check. I am also screaming on this image, but thankfully we've turned down the volume a bit.
Ohohow. The Science Museum (along with a few others) are for free but for a few mini-exhibs you have to sacrifice a few quids, just like this interactive one. You enter with a card that you swipe on the yellow circles just like the on you see on the pic, activating mini-games about how you imagine your life in 2050. You can design future food, vehicles, homes, transportation system and stuff and finally you get an evaluation and your mini-city gets included in a mega-town that comprises of all the visitors' experiments. Very childish and very enjoyable at the same time. I am designing caramelised sweets with vaccine here.
Grab the receiver and follow the instructions to choose the energy reserves you'll use for your future homes. I went nuclear. Literally.
If you know me well enough, you know what I'm thinking here.
You'll get more images in another set, so this is just a teaser about Floor 5's exhibition on the history of medicine. They had wicked Chinese and Sumerian shit in there, also some amazing and not so amazing urine collection systems and this trepanation set also comes in handy when you need to skullfuck someone like this is the last day on Earth. Have fun, children.
cluster housing by björn börkur eiríksson
Icelandic concept designer Björn Börkur Eiríksson, lead artist/designer at CCP White Wolf, has some deeply depressing artwork to share on his site. IO9 mostly focused on the post-apocalyptic city exteriors: the image that reflects a more Europeanized/Balkanized version of capsule hotels seemed like a good idea for the front page: there are no doors on the "flats" and the only entrance is the elevator robot that's a bit unreal for me - given that you have an environment like these, you'd expect custom-made rope ladders, at least.
(This concept actually has a name called cluster housing'and there's one amazing concept that grabbed me. Useful and Agreeable, abbreviated as U+A, designed by Neil M. Dinari is a kinky little construct, according to archintect, the u+a house options range from the "mini hi-rise" to "low-rise", or "high and wide" options extending up to 1800 square feet (167 m2). innovations include lightweight aerospace grade aluminum panels, solar power, rooftop patio, rain collection, flexible floorplans, plus some built-in furniture designed by nmda). Denari also says that "far different from most pre-fab designs, the u+a pre-designed house submerges the 'off-the-shelf' appearance in favor of an aesthetic that is closer to product design of a smaller scale."
another cyberpunk comic @ bloodfire to be made as big-budget web anime series
The Gene Generation goes on DVD next January and if you've seen the comics (if you haven't, grab it like fuck), you know it's out on Bloodfire Studios. Now Wired drops the hint that Bloodfire received the rights to make an indie comics series from an anime-style big-budget web series that has RDF USA behind it (who were responsible for shows like The Two Coreys or Wife Swap). Release tentatively set for 2009, so far there's only one leaked cityscape image, according to Wired.
eleven scenes of mount avalon (of doom)
The London Eye - a fantastic place, mostly because of Café Manga, the motherfuckingly awesomest Dalí exhibition (really restored my faith in spoken word and the classic piano sound) and the fact that we sort of managed to hack the hourlong queues, getting through in ten minutes' time. Will have mid-air pics later on of the pods, need to send memo to engineer guys to add Brian Eno-esque ambient background.
The moment when you realize that you really, really have five channels in the Paki neighbourhood and HAHA gives you a decent flavour of monochrome lullaby.
The Dev, right on the back corner towards Camden Market - also the moment when you realize that Goths are the same everyone. If you don't look like them and they don't recognize you, you're just street gomi. Sounds awful, doesn't it. Nah, seriously, nice vibe.
Featuring Drew, vocalist of New Project - too bad Claire's not visibly around, she's possibly getting a seventeenth pair of stiletto heels. Drew, man, if you read this, we owe you one big time :)
Interior of Camden Market, lack of rain, excess of Thai, in the triangle of Damage 311, Hexagon and some Chinese vendors who were hellbent on the idea that I'd need to buy samurai tees. No samurai tees.
Moi, at the Market, just minutes after FSOL Papua New Guinea from a green coffee shop sent me into sweet sobbing.
Typical scene. Maps, coffee and things going blurry. Especially after Zen Revolution. But I'll tell you more about that anyways.
Seriously.
A piece of organic aesthetics of doom and also, DOOM. Lovely, Brain's gone unwired. Will post more pics later.
asian fetish, to collect a horde of spambots
A few pics to share until I get back online. I'll just kill the possibility to comment, because this would actually invite spambots by the number of LEGION and I wouldn't want that, so send me directmail, mail address at gmail or comment me on Twitter.
eye jewellery for kabuki lens
Happy Monday, everyone, keep yourself on the edge with first dose of anything you can inhale off the table after the weekend clean-up AND Eric Klarenbeek's Eye Jewellery Project, a new kind of lens including a medical wire with a few crystals on it. From a good angle it almost looks like teardrops, but after going through all what Sisen & co. wears at the Tokyo parties, this is definitely not as extreme as electro^plankton or luxurylaunches puts it.
sexy hacking
Sexy Hacking is creating a series of online videos where sexy girls teach hacking techniques, tips, how-to's, tools, social engineering, security industry news and spoofs. Why read some boring news article or lame documentation when you can get the goods demonstrated by a sexy hacker girl? This is real information security - just sexier.
yock ichiriduka: disturbing to some, bait to others
Merry Sunday, all of you. If you've been on the darkweb for long, you might know stuff similar to what Yock Ichiriduka's been doing since 2003: kegadoru, power games and fatal injuries along coordinate systems. Recommended via Whitechapel.
jeremy mayer's typewriter figure gallery
Jeremy Mayer collects antique typewriters, but he doesn't display them in a curio cabinet. Instead, he tears them apart, then turns the components into sleek, sci-fi-inspired bugs, skeletons and anatomically correct human figures. Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without welding, soldering or gluing. (full gallery at wired)
the golden age of sprinkler bukkake
Modern Mechanix on a German firefighter suit from Feb, 1931: The outfit, which looks like a deep sea diver’s uniform is equipped with a sprinkler helmet which operates off a connection attached to the nozzle of the hose. The fireman can control the spray by a simple movement of a hand lever. (via)
repo! the genetic opera: mark it up
Repo!: the Genetic Opera scene Mark It Up is finally back on YouTube, thanks to Eftelsander.
lara croft: revamped
Never been a fan of Lara Croft, haven't played Tomb Raider and the only archaeologist mystic adventurers I dig are the Planetary crew. But you really did see this coming, didn't you? Alison Carroll (23) from Croydon is the new LC. And I'm not posting the insanely bad NSFW crotch shot here. (via daily mail)
buildings with user interfaces
In this design project, called Signterior, architect Nobuhiro Nakamura uses a computer-like interface to help people to navigate a large Shanghai office and shopping structure. (link, via io9 via dezeen)
neuromancer news: coilhouse crowd thinks movie "could be good"
If you've been checking up on the Neuromancer movie news, you'll probably be aware that Case has been renamed to Cage in the official press material, the teaser poster looks like a Bauhaus/steampunk wet dream on mescaline and a tint of artstyness and Hayden Christensen is not listed on the movie's IMDB page at the moment.
You might not know, though, that there's a longer and quite creative thread about Neuromancer on Coilhouse (who have actually released their first print version that doesn't get into wide circulation so order them like fuck, I've already done so) and there you have a YouTube embed of Kahn's version of the George Michael track Freeek and it looks very slick to be cyberpunkish, if anything. If Kahn can keep a steady hand on the visuals, Neuromancer's going to be a decent slap on the face. (via coilhouse)
I'll ask the same question here, though: tell me about your ideas, who'd you cast as the main characters?
nomadic spacecraft art museum @ yokohama triennale 2k8
The high art trend of launching mobile museums into the wild is gaining steam with the latest "artcraft" coming in the form of the H Box. The structure was produced by fashion brand Hermès and designed by architect Didier Fiuza Faustino, who calls his work "a nomadic object informed 1970s space landing crafts." Inside the H Box films by international creators such as Su-Mei Tse, Yael Bartana, Dora García, Judit Kúrtag, Valérie Mréjen, and Shahryar Nashat are shown. The next stop for the artcraft is Yokohama, Japan from September 13 to November 30. (link, via dvice)
synthespians on the rise: image metrics out of "uncanny valley"
Synthespians (Gibson's version of personality constructs) are on the rise thanks to Image Metrics, the guys behind GTA's animations. Their artificial construct, Emily (on the yt above) is controlled by a new system that takes facial control down to the pixel level - that, the extreme focus on the perfect timing of eye movements and the subtle imperfections and asymmetries make the constructs into real humans. Sites fantasize about chatbots and CG movies that pwn live-action ones. Yes please. Longer history on synthespians and idorus later, on the new version of PD. (via Times Online via Technovelgy via IO9)
sculpting light with turntables
Because sculpting light is relatively easy, just check up on Christian Cerrito's blog for more pictures and also details, such as "EL wire + Armature Wire + Solder + Clear Heat Shrink + Turntable + Inverter + Batteries + Base Block + Hot Glue" and then some. (via sir, i exist!)
vincent chai wages world war: robot kung-fu from the forties
World War's a new CG short directed by Vincent Chai, recent graduate of University of Hertfordshire, UK: brimming with pre-Hiroshima era urban landscapes, gritty bullet-time robot kung-fu, Wolverine claws and an atomic bomb. Given that it's really an amateur project, it's amazingly fun (all done with Maya, Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects). Check the bonus features on Chai's site! (via dvice)
stratosphere messenger tee
Zoetica meets Plastik Wrap. Stratosphere Messenger, the Coilhouse mag poster girl finally finds a new life on tee's, now sold on Etsy. When you read this, it might be very, very sold out. (link, via warrenellis)
