Gorgeous creation from the simple elements of soap, water and an entrancing take on gravity by artist Nicky Assman. As explained by Fast Co Design, “Solace exploits the effect of gravity on soap films. Most soap bubbles are made up of a mixture of glycerol and water, which have different levels of viscosity. That means that water and soap are affected by gravity at different rates. The swirling patterns you see in the film, after a few seconds held in a vertical position, is light refracting off of the film as water is pulled down more quickly than the rest of the soap film.” Scientific and spell-binding.
Communications with someone special are not about content going back and forth. They are about feeling the presence of the person on the other side.
Feel Me is a sweet connection and a playful link with the person on the other side, opening a channel for a nonverbal and interactive connection.
Feel Me is a simple and new way to enrich digital communications.
Think of someone special in your life. When you are together with that person you can communicate in different ways: you can either talk or you can connect nonverbally –for instance by smiling, looking into each other’s eyes, holding hands, and so on. Yet, when you are apart communications tend to be much more explicit. You can certainly talk trough SMS and emails but how can you connect nonverbally?
Based on the finding for which communications with a special person are not about content going back and forth but rather about perceiving the presence of the other person on the other side, Feel Me opens a real-time interactive channel.
At a first glance Feel Me appears as a text messaging application. Yet, when the two parts are both looking at the conversation they are having, touches on the screen of one side are shown on the other side as small dots.
Touching the same spot triggers a small reaction, such as a vibration or a sound, acknowledging that both parts are *there* at the same time.
Feel Me does not aim at replacing physical interactions, but it rather aims at enriching the currently sterile digital communications.
Feel Me is fully working, it is not a concept.
Feel Me has been designed and implemented by Marco Triverio (@marcotriverio, portfolio.marcotriverio.com) as his final project at CIID (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, ciid.dk).
Feel Me is dedicated to Lorenza.
Get notified if and when Feel Me becomes available! Go to:
feelmeapp.com
This animation is shot entirely in-camera, the figure having been animated in 3DS Max and then plotted by custom built 3D light painting system.
Animation : Sergei Shabarov
Music : Chris Clark – “EMW”
Read more about the project: rethinkfx.com/projects/lightplot
Plinko Poetry is a new interface for electronic poetic expression, by Inessah Selditz and Deqing Sun, two Master’s students at NYUs Interactive Telecommunications Program. The installation draws source text from current @nytimes and @FoxNews tweets and creates a new corpus of ever changing poetic text based on the zeitgeist of current headlines.
The interface of Plinko Poetry uses Python and Processing to scrape and display alternate scrolling lines of current tweets from the New York Times and Fox News. When a user drops a chip, it randomly hits pegs on the way down. The word under each peg that is hit is highlighted, with the untouched pegs automatically darkened. Plinko Poetry uses openFrameworks camera color tracking to determine which pegs have been encountered.
When the chip comes to a stop, the user is left with a trail of blackout poetry which is then live tweeted to @PlinkoPoetry.
Experimentations on the levels of accidentality with 6 axis robots doing feltpen graphics. The gradient value of the image translates to rotation values(6th joint) of a flat nose pen. Image 'resolution' 33 by 33 pixel.
Team: Matthew Tam,Pablo Osorio, Francisco Moure, Salvador Cortez & Peter A Vikar
Tutor: Andrew Atwood, Robotic Fabrication Seminar
Music: Pantha Du Prince - The Splendour
Robot: Staubli RX-160
Sci-Arc Robot House, Fall 2011, Los Angeles
petervikar.com
The bicycle sharing service "COGOO" developed the world's first attached device for bicycles which converts a bicycle into DJ turntable.
You can enjoy this video, which for the first time shows a fusion of "DJ" and "BMX" cultures. Share a bicycle, like music！
※TurntableRider now is NOT mass produced for the consumer market.
[CREATIVE STAFF CREDIT]
Creative Director / Copywriter KENTA IKOMA
Art Director / Designer JUNPEI FUJITA
PR Planner KAZUAKI MATSUI
Producer YUMA KIMURA
Director YUSUKE TANAKA
DP YUSUKE OKA
Interactive Designer TOSHIYUKI SUGAI
Offline Editor RYAN MCQIURE
Lighting Designer JUN SAKAI
Production Designer NAOFUMI YONETSUKA
Sound Designer DJ BAKU
Music Producer HIROKI SAKAIDA
BMX Coodinator HIROSHI UEHARA
BMX Rider KOTARO / YUKI / KAORU / MIYUKI
Sound Mixer MASAYUKI OODAIRA
Production Manager KOYA AOYAGI /RYOHEI KAKU/TOMOHIRO OGUCHI
"Rafmögnuð Náttúra"
Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival 2012
Hallgrimskírkja Church, Reykjavik, Iceland
February 9th-12th, 2012
Concept and Art Direction: Marcos Zotes
Project Management: Marcos Zotes and Gerður Sveinsdóttir
Technical Direction: Chris Jordan
Animation: Marcos Zotes, Thessia Machado, Noa Younse, Andrea Dart and Steven Tsai and Chris Jordan
Choreography and Dance Performance: Coco Karol
Videography: Azmi Mert Erdem
Special Effects: Raghul Sridharan
Music by For a Minor Reflection
Timelapse by Christian Praetorius
The New York Times Co., parent company of the Gray Lady, About.com and other publications, has its own research and development lab aimed at devising new ways to share media with readers. This latest invention takes that a step further, connecting you to much more than just the news. Through the looking glass, you could read the headlines while brushing your teeth or fixing your hair; refill a prescription or learn about your medicine by scanning an RFID tag on the bottle; and exchange messages with coworkers or other members of your household. It actually reminds us a little of this winner of our 2011 Invention Awards, though much more in-depth and consumer-focused..The mirror uses Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor to read physical signals from the person standing in front of it, according to a demo of the device over at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. The Times Co. has two versions, one of which would offer prescription information and coupons, and another with an online retail experience that lets you try things on, and suggests new outfits, based on what you wear in front of it. Click through to the Nieman Lab for demo videos with Brian House, The Times Co.’s creative technologist.
This experiment in physical interactivity was installed in the windows of Dedon's flagship US location in Soho. The Kinect & Arduino-driven experience fused nature and technology together to create a little interactive play on the streets of NYC. Note: no seagrass was harmed in the making of this installation.
