Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) by Gebhard Sengmüller is a new television format that we have developed building upon Slow Scan Television (SSTV), an image transmission system used by Ham Radio amateurs. VSSTV uses broadcasts from this historic public domain television system and regular bubble wrap to construct an analogous system: Just as a Cathode Ray Tube mixes the three primary colors to create various hues, VSSTV utilizes a plotter-like machine to fill the individual bubbles with one of the three primary CRT colors, turning them into pixels on the VSSTV “screen”. Large television images with a frame rate of one per day are the result, images that take the idea of slow scan to the extreme.

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An image of the Holy Mother made of Easter eggs has gone on display at the St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. About 15,000 hand-painted eggs were used by Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas to create the piece.

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The ROBOTAGGER, built by Golan Levin, is an industrial robot arm programmed with GML, the new “Graffiti Markup Language” created by Evan Roth and pals at the FAT Lab:

GML is a new XML file type specifically designed for archiving graffiti tags. What it enables is the transfer of graffiti tags from creator to another destination, via computer. So what that means is your tag could be drawn on the other side of the world from where you are in realtime.

What the Robotagger does is brings this virtualised format back into the real world.

Lets do a collective mural.

Amsterdam-based artist Peter Schuyff takes ordinary objects like baseball bats and colored pencils and carves them into intricate and delicate works of art.

N Building is a commercial structure located near Tachikawa station amidst a shopping district. Being a commercial building signs or billboards are typically attached to its facade which we feel undermines the structures’ identity. As a solution we thought to use a QR Code as the facade itself. By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.

I like this, but it strikes me that QR codes are a computer readable bridge between media and content, but are unreadable to the human eye. Seems like a bit of a waste of space to me. Wouldn’t it be better to visualise signage we can all interpret immediately, that’s also computer readable and and leads to deeper content? Image recognition isn’t there yet, but soon….

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It’s amazing how much the work of Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen continues to inspired people. Here’s one of his “Strandbeest” walking mechanisms done in paper.

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English fashion designer Gareth Pugh has fashioned a dress made from OLEDs (organic LEDs) panels. OLEDs entry into the market promises a more light efficient display technology compared to traditional LEDs.

The dress, controlled by a microcontroller, changes color when triggered by a signal.

Hermes has come up trumps with this window display in Tokyo. It combines a video of a girl blowing with a real Hermes scarf. As the girl blows, the scarf moves in reaction. Simple but effective.

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Avatar Machine is a wearable system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.

It’s that last bit, “The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment“, that I find WTF. Or am I just not getting it?

Interesting stuff though. More here.

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Would be fantastic at a South Bank scale.