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Meet Philippe Zdar: French House Pioneer And France's Hottest Producer
When Margaret Thatcher inadvertently spawned the European rave scene, first by closing the textile industry and freeing up warehouse spaces and later by illegalizing party music “characterized by the...
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The Birth Of Divine Fits
Photo: Banner GwinIn 2007, Britt Daniel of famed rock band Spoon bumped into Dan Boeckner of the Handsome Furs at a Furs show. The camaraderie they forged at their first meeting led the two musicians...
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Visualizing The Energy Flow Of "Life": Meet Digital Art Studio FIELD
For the better part of a year, UK-based digital art studio FIELD have been thinking about energy, that invisible life force that courses through every single particle in the universe. After watching...
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Enter The "Fractiverse" In Zone Patcher's Digital Collages
For lots of artists, the use of fractals has added a whole new layer of complexity to their work. Often times, this newfound complexity can offer viewers a deeper level of engagement with whatever it...
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How DIY Filmmakers Jul & Mat Started Making Music Videos For Two Door Cinema...
French directors Jul & Mat met in junior high where they shot their first horror short films with their parents’ cameras. Since then, they never stopped working together on touchingly simple,...
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LAYERS: Peeling Back The Plies Of Eloise's "Soft Touch (Burnt Skin)"
It’s lovely when old friends meet up years later and discover that, though they’ve grown older, some of their interests still match up. Well, what I mean is that it’s great, but you probably wouldn’t...
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Exploring The Beauty Of A Work In Progress
When it comes to digital artworks, we’re used to seeing the final product staring back at us in a gallery space or online, where we get to interact with it and enjoy it as the artist meant us to. But...
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Spray Painting With Light Onto An LED Wall With Water Light Graffiti
This past summer, while France was liquefying under the scorching heat wave that swept the country, artist Antonin Fourneau unveiled his interactive instalaltion Water Light Graffiti, developed in...
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Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" Performed On Old Computer Equipment
Long ago, Bob Dylan once sang that the times they are a-changin’—and it was true they were and they still are, but back then he couldn’t possibly have imagined that somewhere in the 21st century, his...
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Prepare To Have Your Perceptions Bent In This Optical Illusion Time-Lapse Film
It’s not like the world is short a few time-lapse videos, but Flawed Symmetry of Prediction by Jeff Frost ups the ante for the technique by combining time-lapse footage with optical illusions to create...
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Learn To Program With These LED Shades
If you’e trying to inspire people to learn programming, then using a pair of LED glasses with 174 programmable LED lights isn’t a bad way to go about it. That’s what Technology Will Save Us, a company...
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A Mad Scientist Reveals A Giant, Steaming Magic Potion In The Center Of Winnipeg
If you happen to be in Winnipeg, you should take the opportunity to see Emptyful, an installation in the city’s center created by artist Bill Pechet. It’s a 32-foot tall work of steel shaped like a...
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This CMYK Lamp Explores The Infiniteness Of The Rainbow
It’s easy to overlook the foundations of everyday experiences that we seem to take for granted. Simple things such as turning on a faucet and water pouring out, waking up from slumber, or simply having...
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A Unique Clock Manifests Time Into Warm Knitted Goodness
Ah, time. So fleeting. So precious. So ephemeral. SighWell… enough of that. However, it is fascinating how time can pass, and oftentimes, we have nothing to show for it. With the recent critical...
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Times Square Is Melting (Thanks To Takeshi Murata)
Though recently he’s been cranking out hyper-realistic and oddly pristine digital prints themed around Mars and “Synthesizers,” US-based animator Takeshi Murata’s psychedelic 3-minute video work Melter...
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Nicole Scherzinger's LED Twitter Dress Displays Real-time Tweets
London-based wearable tech fashion duo CuteCircuit—fashion designer Francesca Rosella and interface designer Ryan Genz—are not unfamiliar with designing high-tech haute couture for A-listers. They...
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Netherlands To Get "Smart Highways" In 2013
We already have smartphones and in the future we’re told we’ll be getting “smart” buildings, “smart” cars, “smart” surfaces—everything’s going to be so much smarter that we’re going to get an...
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Music Goes Nuclear With The Radioactive Orchestra
There’s never been as many ways to make music as there is today, but if you’re bored of playing it safe using a computer or an instrument, how about bringing some added danger into the mix by creating...
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User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Digital Illustrator Ben White
Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do. The questions are always the same, the answers, not so much. This week: Ben...
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Dancer Duets With A Remote-Controlled Helicopter
Remote-controlled helicopters are usually found down the local park, being test driven by kids and overgrown kids alike. They’re not the sort of thing you’d expect to see onstage in a dance...
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