This is stupid cool. I can’t wait to try this.
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How To: LED Ice Balls
I want to do this with the RGB LEDs used in Jolly Lama’s juggling balls.
Skin Color Distribution
Confirms my theory that skin color is a function of the earth’s axis and exposure to solar radiation. Duh.
3D Virtual Graffiti
“Equipped with the appropriate technology, DAIM sprays graffiti into empty space. In a large hall, three cameras using Motion Capturing record DAIM’s position and the movements he executes with a virtual spray can. The assimilated data is shown to him in real time in a pair of video glasses – as free-floating 3D graffiti in space.”
Robert Hodgin: Magnetic Ink
Around the webs Robert is known as Flight404. This piece and many others by him are made with Processing. Tons more at his blog and Vimeo account. DVD release forthcoming.
VR Head Tracking Via Wii Remote
Yet another computer interaction hack from Johnny Lee using the Wii Remote, but this one takes the cake. Turn any standard display into a virtual 3D window.
In Praise of Melancholy
“I for one am afraid that American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am concerned that to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic, to settle for unrealistic abstractions that ignore concrete situations.”
Chemical Oscillation
One of the few known oscillating chemical reactions, it can generally repeat itself about 10 times before ending as a dark blue liquid smelling of iodine.
Steal This Film II
DVD, iPod and HD Video formats are available for free via Bit Torrent at the film’s website. Some pretty interesting commentary on the economics of new media.
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