Cool Hunting Video Presents: The Planetarium Projector Museum: A gaze inside the world's largest collection of planetarium projectors

Cool Hunting Video Presents: The Planetarium Projector Museum: A gaze inside the world's largest collection of planetarium projectors:




There are many beautiful things to see on the drive into Big Bear Lake, CA but one of the more interesting and unknown is the Planetarium Projector Museum.

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Liquipel Waterproof Coating

Liquipel Waterproof Coating:



Liquipel is a nano-coating – 1000 times thinner than human hair – that provides smartphones with surface protection from water. Learn more about the tech and the process here and here.

Sleight of Hand with Screens, iPod Magic, and Marco’s Ruminations on the Power of Deception

Sleight of Hand with Screens, iPod Magic, and Marco’s Ruminations on the Power of Deception:re-blog from Create Digital Motion


Techno-wizardry and eye candy aside, make no mistake: as artists, we engage every day the essence of truth and deception. So, while magician Marco Tempest’s hands are fleet, his magician-trained choreography slick, and his coordinated mobile screens impressive, it’s the message behind the medium that’s most poignant. To me, at least, Marco has something to say about the nature of deception, something as much about artifice of humans as about the artifice of screens, that is complex, beautiful, and moving.

Image courtesy Marco Tempest.

Naturally, that raises the question: what is this, exactly? Marco tells CDM:

I am not really sure what to call it. It originally started as a magic routine, but very early in the project it seemed like the magic was too distracting from the story. I decided to take the “how did he do that?” out of the equation and make it more of a “magical” piece. I do not want to challenge the audience to figure out how it was done, but rather emotionalize the message with some of the softer devices of my craft.

Magic really has the power to re-enchant us. It’s a wonderful medium to convey a message or a story and technology just happens to be the vehicle I use to get the initial attention.

Marco also encapsulates on video his thoughts on open source magic. That idea itself is a seeming contradiction, given that most people assume magic somehow crumbles when its secrets are revealed. But Marco is to me part of a bright, experimental movement in visual technology and magic alike. The technologists, like the magicians, are finding expressions that hold up to scrutiny, that remain magical even under the harsh spotlight of knowledge.





http://marcotempest.com/

You can also find the free software by which Marco created the effect, synchronizing multiple screens:

http://marcotempest.com/screen/Public_MultiVid

Plus our previous coverage:

Syncing Multiple Small Screens: iPhone, and Now Blinkendroid for Android

And it really is true that Wikipedia – like all human knowledge – leads back to mathematics and philosophy. (Hint: even math is philosophy, not truth. If that isn’t relevant to mixing computation and art, I don’t know what it is.)

Putting the digital in prestidigitation, as always…

Maker Faire Bay Area 2010

All my favorite at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010

Musical Tesla Coil @ The Maker Faire Bay Area 2010

Tesla Coil Speakers are awesome. basically Plasma (controlled lighting) expanding and shrinking the air around it because of the changes in temperate, which is controlled by the audio signal. This makes the air act like a speaker, which in fact, amazingly represents the audio signal's waveform very well. That is why it sounds so pure. (by SoSharp)