Reima Honkasalo hat alte Kabel zu einer Fleischwolflampe verwurstet.
(via Dude Craft)
This brilliant Ikea Hack "harks back to one of humanity's basic needs: making fire." As Ikea does not sell matches or lighters, Smits has taken cues from the wartime necessity of burning furniture to keep warm, and created a fire from an Ikea rope, hanger, wine rack, egg cup, napkins, and floral embellishments.
Am Sa. 02. Oktober 2010 verlassen wir die ausgetretenen Pfade:
Wir wollen raus, raus aus der City und dem Einheitsbrei in der Musik und Kunst. Andere Orte, neue Welle, neue Töne, neue Bilder.
Programm
Musik: Czarc, das Ohlsensyndrom, der Büro, Kolonie7
Bilder: Reinhard Kleist, The Real Moi, Maxomat
Film: The Dream Detectives mit Livemusik von John Ellis
(The Stranglers, Peter Gabriel)
Performance: "169km" von Anne Gelderblom und Kathi Groß
Doors open 17.00 Uhr, Programm 20.00 Uhr
WO? Moorfleeter Straße 15, Hinterhof
Der Eintritt ist Frei
"We want to explore the limits of what a robot can do, what human expressions it can mimic, and how it affects people's perception of the robot when it makes an appearance in art and dance, says Lars Asplund, Professor of Computer Science at Mälardalen University in Västerås, Sweden ... The idea for the dancing robot was hatched jointly by Lars Asplund and his colleague Kerstin Gauffin, who works with theatre at Mälardalen University. With our swan we are showing that we can use robots in new ways – simply because they are beautiful and give the audience new experiences, says Kerstin Gauffin ... She got in touch with the professional dancer and choreographer Åsa Unander-Scharin, who now has designed the robot's special dance to the tunes of the famous composer Tchaikovsky. By systematically having the robot swan perform each movement by itself – right wing up, neck down, etc ... I think it's exciting to see how emotionally touched people can get by machines ..." Dancing robot swan triggers emotions
'officially it's name is L.O.V. E. - so it stands for love - but everyone can read between the lines and take away the message they see for themselves.' maurizio cattelan(via Nerdcore)
conceived especially for milan, all the fingers of the hand are cut off, except for the middle one, final mockery of all 'isms' - 'against ideology' ...
the sculpture represents also the semantic turnover of the leader’s assertive gesture and of power, codified by the classical monument.
a dialogue with the past: indeed, the artist is convinced that he has actually proposed a conservative and traditional work...
an opinion which the top leaders of palazzo marino (the city's town house) do not agree with ..." maurizio cattelan's middle finger displayed in milan
"The effect can be simulated in Photoshop, by adjusting a photograph's contrast, colour saturation and depth of focus. It works quite well with regular photographs, so we decided to try it using paintings to see what would happen, and it turns out that the works of Vincent van Gogh in particular make excellent subjects for this kind of treatment ... To reiterate: Nothing in any of these paintings been added or removed or had its proportions changed. The effect is achieved simply by manipulating the light in the scene and adjusting the areas of the image that are more and less in focus, as you will see ..." Tilt-Shift Van Gogh(via The Awesomer)
"... includes a complete mobile work station, an Entertainment package and robotic functions. Inside was a complete proprietary SysCon computer. This was used to do computing task and control the robotic functions ... The entertainment package included a voice synthesizer with a 1200-word vocabulary, a 12" black and white television, and AM/FM stereo cassette player, an Atari 2600 video game set and a digital clock that displayed time and temperature. There was an optional voice command module that included a microphone to command Hubot verbally. Hubot could be preprogrammed to follow a programmed path or driven with a joystick. Once taught a path, Hubot could be command to follow it again with the touch of a button ..." Hubot