Friday, April 30, 2010
Ovi Maps - Interactive Projection Mapping
Interactive projection mapping for Nokia Ovi Maps Activation in Covent Garden, london, April 2010. The installation features
custom optical flow, face tracking and some crazy complex arrow chess!
Quantum dot image sensors set to change camera industry
Those of you who, like me, just recently managed to score the digital camera of your dreams will be very excited to learn that it's possibly going to be obsolete real soon. Based on technology developed by University of Toronto professor Ted Sargent, who is now CTO at start-up InVisage, the new image sensor uses a matrix of nanoparticles embedded in a polymer film which can be simply 'painted' onto the top of a low-cost wafer at room temperature. If the hype is to be believed, the new sensor offers four times the sensitivity of conventional CMOS image sensors at a dramatically reduced cost per chip. [Thanks, Glen!]
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Cisco Partner Summit 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
M.I.A. NEW Music Video
M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.
Probably the most disturbing MV to date!
Pick Me Up: Nobrow
In the second installment of our batch of short films made whilst perusing the wares and exhibits of the Pick Me Up graphic art fair currently running at Somerset House, we caught up with Alex Spiro and Sam Arthur, founders of Nobrow
Spiro and Arthur haven't just been busy getting the show ready, the pair have somehow managed to publish a slew of new books and publications since CR last spoke to them just a few months ago... Before you watch the next film, you might want to tweak the volume on your computer as this sound on this next film is a little louder than on the last!
Here's a closer look at the books Al showcases in the above film:
The latest issue of Nobrow's regularly published illustration magazine, Nobrow 3 (cover, shown above is by ATAK) features work by a host of illustrators and artsists including...
John Sibbick
Luke Pearson
Mike Bertino
The first 3000 copies of each Nobrow is numbered on the back cover, as above
Rise & Fall is a concertina folded "book" that showcases artist Micah Lidberg's illustrated depiction of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs on one side and then the rise of the mammals on the other. Above is a shot of a copy of it displayed in the Nobrow section of Pick Me Up. Below is a detail and below that is a shot of how the book is packaged.
Birchfield Close by Jon McNaught. Hardback cover shown above, a selection of spreads shown below
Dog Crime by Blex Bolex. Cover above, some spreads below
Jeff Job Hunter by Jack Teagle - the latest in Nobrow's 17x23 short graphic story series. It tells the tale of Jeff who goes to the Job Centre to claim his job-seekers allowance but ends up slicing up serpents and skeletons in a dungeon...
These are the latest two tomes to be hand screenprinted in Nobrow's basement screenprinting studio. The one on the left is Hand by Luke Best, the one on the right is Short Cuts by Orlando. Here's a spread from each:
To find out more about Nobrow's books and products, visit their brand spanking new website at nobrow.net/
360-degree pannable video of stadium demolition from 50-yd line
This is pretty amazing panoramic, full-motion (but unfortunately non-embeddable) video of the controlled demolition of Texas Stadium on the 11th of April shot from inside the stadium itself. [via Geekologie]
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Three-roll pinhole camera
This excellent pinhole camera exposes three rolls of film simultaneously. The work of Steven Monteau of Bordeaux, France, it's a pretty slick project, using felt-tipped pens to advance the rolls and marker tops as the knobs. Even better, Monteau provides a detailed tutorial on how to make your own. [Thanks, udi!]
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Carnovsky's RGB wallpaper
For the Milan Design Week, Italian studio Carnovsky created a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights
The designs were created for the Milan shop of Janelli & Volpi, a noted Italian wallpaper brand. Each features overlapping illustrations, different elements of which are revealed depending on whether a blue, green or red light is shone upon them.
This one deals with the human body
Under red light
green light
blue light
This one features the animal kingdon
Photos by Luca Volpe