A 3D Printed Record: Turning Digital Files Into Physical Albums
No matter how many music formats have come since, nothing has a place in people’s hearts quite like the classic vinyl record. Try as we might to move on, we can’t seem to let it go.And now, perhaps...
View ArticleBreaking Down The Cinematography of Beasts Of The Southern Wild
“The whole universe depends on the universe fitting together just right,” says Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), the young star in Beasts of the Southern Wild.The same principle could be applied to the...
View ArticleArt That’s All On Your Head
Over the past decade, mobile devices have become both an insatiable and ubiquitous aspect of our everyday lives. As they get smaller in physical size and their underlying technology gets cheaper, the...
View ArticleA Melancholy Story About The Demise Of Cassette Tapes
In ardent pursuit of his dreams, London-based artist Yibi Hu has come a long way over the past few years. The enthusiastic animation artist moved to London from China, where the industry is still green...
View ArticleHyped: The Week In Links 12/21
On the blog this week, we did what no one else has done and rounded up the year in “best of” lists, there’s the best GIFs, best animations, we counted down some post-apocalyptic visions, and looked at...
View ArticleGang Gang Dance's Brian DeGraw Shares Psychic Data, Atmospheric Noise
It makes sense that artists work across multiple mediums… as is the case with Gang Gang Dance‘s Brian DeGraw. The keyboardist premiered a short film on MOCA TV earlier this week, Psychic Data,...
View ArticleGet Ready For Aphex Twin's Remote Orchestra
We take for granted how easy it is to make electronic music today. All the hardware and software tools available facilitate the creation of musical styles like hip-hop, house, and breakbeats, but we...
View ArticleBest Of 2012: 7 Online Time-Wasters That Kept Us Sane
It’s a been a long, hectic year, as we’re sure it’s been for you, and we’ve all worked harder than ever at our jobs. But we have to admit that we certainly weren’t hard at work 100% of the time. There...
View ArticleHoliday YouTube Playlist: Our Favorite Artworks Of 2012
As you may have seen, we launched the Digital Gallery earlier this year as a new place to enjoy the arts online. We dabbled in experimental films, interactive fashion, music videos, a whole series...
View ArticleHacking The Human Body: Meet Daito Manabe
“Can you smile without emotion?”That’s what Daito Manabe asks in the video above. It’s the sort of question many of his digital art projects begin with, leading him to experiment with myoelectric...
View ArticleUser Preferences: Tech Q&A With Interactive Designers Studio Roosegaarde
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: Studio...
View ArticleCollect Sounds In A Bottle, Play Them Back As A Musical Composition
Wouldn’t it be great if you had a magic bottle that you could carry around with you and fill up with sounds that you came across, then play them back as a piece of music? Well, yeah, sure it would....
View ArticlePaganism Gets A Minimalist, Projection Mapped Makeover
After the last week or so of rituals that mix the secular with the religious and excessive, you could be forgiven for not wanting to see anything to do with tradition, at least until at least it’s time...
View ArticleCould Roboy Be The Most Advanced Humanoid Robot Yet?
A new year, a new lurch towards robotic humanoids. Built over nine months this is Roboy from the A.I. Lab at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, a robot that is “tendon driven”—which means its...
View Article10,000 Images Capture Individual Dance Moves In NUDE
Shinichi Maruyama‘s previous photographic works captured the momentary stances of water, using a high speed camera to freeze images of fluid in motion. For his new series, NUDE, Maruyama teamed up with...
View ArticleUsing The MakerBot To 3D Print Impossible, Futuristic Sculptures
In 2012, MakerBot promised to revolutionize the practice of home fabrication with a product that allows simple, desktop 3D-printing at home. Yet it remains to be seen exactly what the masses will...
View ArticleVisualising A Movie's Color Footprint
In the average movie, you’re pretty much guaranteed that it’ll run through a whole range of colors. If you were to sit there and note them all down, you’d probably die of boredom before you got to the...
View Article200 Inflatable Rings Light Up Lyon
Cast your mind way back to your childhood and you’ll remember playing around with inflatable swim rings. In fact, you might not even have to cast your mind back that far to remember them, as you might...
View ArticleAn Inexpensive, Open Source, Pocket-sized Gaming Console Is Inches From Being...
Among many creative accomplishments, the advent of Kickstarter has brought about a shot in the arm for experimental video game platforms and hardware. With two notable examples—the open source OUYA...
View ArticleMix And Blend Your Favorite Soundcloud Jams Using Soundcloud DJ
There was a time when every DJ scrambled to get their hands on the newest singles from hot artists, and this process involved listening to the radio, going down to an actual record store, and if if...
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