Photographer Brandon Voges came up with a simple and surprisingly novel idea: photograph portraits of people hanging upside down by their ankles. Then invite your closest friends to do the same. The resulting eerie series “Upside Downey Face” is a collection of unsettling, strange images of people flipped the wrong way up.
Looks a bit like there squeezing one out to me.
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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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ASCIImeo is a project by Peter Nitsch. It’s a video player which renders Vimeo videos in ASCII.
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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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A quick summary worth sharing courtesy of Emily @ Spotify:
A number of the sites share playlists with friends (Spotify Friends).
Some find random playlists (ShareMyPlaylists.com, Your Spotify, Spotify Playlists, xpandify, etc).
And some create playlists based on an artist you may be interested in. ie: if you really liked Keane and wanted to find similar music to them - these sites create playlists off the back of this artist: (Spotibot, Spotiseek).
There are a few more unusual ones - Spotify DJ (broadcasting DJ sets)
Topsify (creates playlists based on the charts, and historic number 1s)
Radiofy (essentially this site lets you pick your favourite radio stations, it then shows you what that station just played, and if you want to hear that song again or whatever you can just click on it and it opens in Spotify. To get past the opening screen and into the site click on ‘Stäng’. It’s in Swedish.)
And for even more services, go here.
Inspired by the 70’s time delay technique within the recent OKGo ‘WTF’ video (see below), Mehmet Akten created this little open-source demo in Processing. It works in real-time with a webcam.
You can download the source here.
OKGos version:
And here’s a little making of video:
And the original:
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.
League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists who create robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR creates exotic, sculptural musical instruments which integrate robotic technology. LEMUR’s philosophy is to build robots that are new types of musical instruments, as opposed to animatronic robots that play existing instruments.
ForestBot
GuitarBot
ModBots
Mesmerising:
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