Feynman - physics and the remix
Posted on September 10th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, images, web, science.
I don’t know anything about the province of this video other than what it says on the screen but hot damn is it ever the goods.
Video clips
Posted on August 31st, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, CreativeCommons.
Two short video clips, 640×480, Xvid codec
Visual Music
Posted on March 24th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, images.
In quick response to the days labour CG dropped news that he and his wife and mom attended the Hirshhorn Visual Music exhibition in DC.
Visual Music traces an alternative history of the abstract art of the past century, featuring artists connected by their explorations of ideas related to synaesthesia—primarily, a unity of the senses and, by extension, a synthesis of the arts. Including painting and photography, light art, cinema and video, as well as installation art and digital media
echoes and momentum… morphogenesis strikes again
-w.
interactive grapevine robot
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, robot.
via the excellent pasta & vinegar weblog I found the work of artist/engineer Kenneth Edmund Rinaldo and Engineer Mark Grossman.
They built the flock:
Our Flock consists of three 9 1/2 foot long jointed robotic arms, constructed from grapevines, which hang from the ceiling and interact with viewers, participants and each other. Each dangling arm has an array of three infrared sensors, projecting out from the top of the arm, which function as active eyes and permit the sculptures to avoid participants walking around the installation. Another infrared eye at the tip of each arm functions to allow the sculptures to approach and simultaneously react to participants presence. Each arm also has an array of four microphones which function as ears allowing the sculpture to move toward participants. The microphones are placed so relative volume levels of viewer/participants voices can be monitored.
The flock is brilliant. It’s what Gilligan’s Island would be like if the professor had been Von Neumann.
-w.
Brainstem! Brainstem!
Posted on February 26th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music.
It’s Pinky and the Brain singing a stirring little tune about neuroanatomy.
- Brainstem![repeat]
via.
-w.
living science fiction
Posted on February 22nd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, images, quantum.
There’s a computer that works better when it is turned off than turned on.
It’s a quantum computer, which means it can do several things at once, possibly in more than one location.
My favourite bit?
I like it because it so seems like cheating.
Though the bit about the “system of mirrors and optical devices” is very steampunk and cool. I somehow doubt that the scientists involved sported Mohawks and extensive piercings with corsets and tattered petticoats, Victorian suits with goggles and boots with large soles and buckles or straps.
image via.
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Imaginal Expression - bruised and scabbed dancing virtual flesh machine
Posted on February 20th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, images, biology.
The city of Surrey is not built for pedestrians. From the skytrain I walked 2 km along a wide highway bordered by walled suburban enclaves and strip malls to get to the City of Surrey Art Gallery. I was there to see an installation by by Winnipeg based artist Reva Stone.
This video clip of Imaginal Expression doesn’t really do justice to the exhibition. These still images better depict the scale of things.
From the Artist’s Statement:
When the visitor enters the gallery space, a large, constantly moving “soup” of molecular components is seen projected on the wall. Real time animation based on inverse kinematic physics causes this motion to constantly change with no repetition. As the visitor is sensed in the gallery space some of the components begin to coalesce into a complete molecule that follows themovement of the visitor. This response is initiated by a computer visioning system that was developed aspart of the software. In addition to responding to the movement of a viewer, a molecule also has thecapability to exchange its fleshy covering with another molecule when the motion of more than one viewer brings them into .proximity with each other. When a visitor leaves the space, that molecule will degenerate over time. As a result, the visitor participates in a continuous cycle of generation, mutation and dissolution.
Initially I was alone in the large spare white room where the work is installed. The projection encompassed one full wall - images of thickened oblong twisting forms texture mapped with scaned body bits [skin, bruises, etc] writhed among thin red undulating strands. All the shapes tended to cluster loosely around the centre of the display space, occasionally drifting off on some random trajectory, bending and changing shape as they moved.
Maybe it was that I was there alone, but the interactive element seemed lacking. The continual drift of the shapes on the wall was entrancing in its way but lacked order. I tried moving around to coax the display into some sort of reactivity but to no avail.
Still, the scope of the piece was impressive and the continually shifting mass of shapes was hypnotic in its way.
New Favourite Thing
Posted on January 22nd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, web.
Flickeur is a completely brilliant thing.
Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. All the blends, motions, zooms or timeleaps are completely random.
There is some sound, which gets annoying, and it can be removed by the installation of a small program called Flashmute, which will allow you to get all the flash video goodness without any of the bad looping mystery music.
This will be open on my desktop from now on.
-w.
Shouty Finn Nutters
Posted on February 4th, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, socio.
My New Favourite Thing
MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT are a crew of shouting Finns. A choir of shouting Finns, actually.
The idea was to dress ca. 20 men in black suits, white shirts and black rubber ties, and train them to shout some of the most beloved songs in the Finnish song heritage.
There’s audio available here [mp3] and video available here [.avi]
Really. This is the best thing I’ve heard in a long time.
Lately they’ve been shouting at an Finnish Ice-Breaker
-w.