“ZYGOTE is a lightweight inflated ball, illuminated from within, that responds to pressure applied to its surface. Interacting with the ball is simple: punch it, bounce it, squeeze it, or tap it and the ball’s internal LEDs react instantaneously.”
Give enough of a tug and you can stretch outside your body, at least enough to induce a nonlocal perspective. Think solar flares, jet lightning, Wooly Willy …
The theremin was invented in 1919, consists of two oscillators and two antennas, and was the first musical instrument designed to be played without actually being touched.
Clara Rockmore was born in 1911, was a child prodigy on the violin, and is widely considered the most accomplished theremin performer ever.
“These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one frame of film, I captured complex patterns not normally seen by the eye.”
W+K/Psyop bring a sequel to last year’s beautiful Happiness Factory advertisement for Coca-Cola. This time around it’s 3 minutes long, apparently clips of it will appear as TV spots which plug Coke’s website to watch the full thing.
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The structure is built in the middle of foliage. As plant growth continues, pressure on the netted walls increases and the structure remains intact — strengthened, in fact, at least visually.
Tomorrow night, Sunday, August 12, around 9:00 pm (in your local time zone), this year’s Perseid meteor shower will be starting to peak. These meteors are considered “earthgrazers”: they will appear on the horizon and skim long and colorful overhead. By 2 am Monday morning their rate might be up to dozens an hour, climaxing around dawn at more than one a minute.
This movie looks sick. Using motion capture the actors’ movements are recorded, including eye-lid flutters via electrooculography, enabling the entire movie to be live acted yet completely computer animated. It will be simultaneously released in traditional theaters and IMAX 3D. (…)
Opens November 16.
No, it’s not your imagination, or latent global warming anxiety/guilt. OK maybe a little of the latter, but it is damn hot outside — at least here in the Southeastern US. With heat indexes in excess of 110 degrees Fahrenheit it’s important to keep cool.
Using a tripod, long exposures, and various light sources (sparklers, Christmas lights wrapped around a hula hoop, etc.), Eric Staller created these beautiful light drawings in New York City during the late 70’s.
Chemical Brothers music videos are always kickass, and this one for “The Salmon Dance” from their new album, We are the Night, is no exception.
Whoa, sand coated with a hydrophobic substance stays dry when submersed in water. Originally developed to contain ocean oil spills near the shore.
Hyposurface is a large lighted display surface that physically moves in three dimensions. Tons more, and far better quality video on the website.