Future Magic with Tablet Light Painting

September 15, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Light frame animation using a computer Tablet for frame exposure delivery.

The Tablet is used to “light paint” single photos, which are then put together as stop-frame animations. The frames run on the Tablet which is tracked in front of a camera set on a long exposure.

Photographic and animation techniques were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with the Tablet.

Scott Summit, 3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution

September 14, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Scott Summit, a co-founder of Bespoke, “wanted to create a leg that had a level of humanity”, using advanced 3-D printing to create prosthetic limbs.

Adaptive Bloom, Reactive Facade

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‘Adaptive Bloom’ by Justin Goodyer of the Bartlett School of Architecture is a reactive facade driven by servos and a computer vision system.

Next Screen Technology

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TAT Open Innovation Experiment on screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays. Unfortunately content is still based on old structural paradigms.

Doll Face, Artificial Desires

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Media, Influence, Desire, Greed, Backlash.
(Andy Huang animation).

E.O. Wilson on preserving life species in our Biosphere

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E.O. Wilson on preserving biodiversity and supporting our “encyclopedia of life.” An encyclopedia that lives on the Internet and is contributed to by scientists and amateurs, has an expandable page for each species, and is accessible to anyone on demand.
(2007) (22 min.)

Free Hugs (Abrazos Gratis), Change Your World with Real Social Connections

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Human contact, the ultimate social technology can change the world, one at a time.
Shift your attitude and shift the world. 🙂

Visualizing Pressible

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Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada. Using Processing, he created this animation, showing an evolving system over the span of a year.

About his work: “I’ll be working with data from Pressible, a network of sites published by Teachers College students, faculty and staff. I’m interested in looking at the growth of this system, and in examining intertextuality between content in a network with a broad range of research interests.”

Yochai Benkler on the wealth of networks

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Five years ago Benkler presented his views on how open source social production would transform markets, and looking back we can see how quickly nascent economies based on collective production can shift the balance of power.
(2005) (18 min.)

Jill Bolte Taylor watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness …

July 21, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Jill Bolte Taylor has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. (2008) (18 min.)

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