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PBS Off Book Shows Us The Magic Of Creative Coding
In its quest to bring to light cutting edge contemporary artforms, today PBS’s Off Book series took on the wild world of creative coding. Encapsulating the burgeoning but expansive culture into a...
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LEGO Machine That Sorts LEGO Pieces Is A Marvel Of Engineering
Such is the power of LEGO that you don’t even need to make anything actually practical to still impress most of the internet. And so it goes with this device, the LEGO Axle Sorter, which is an...
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Turning Children's Drawings Into 3D Printed Figurines
For all the complex, intricate, and stunning sculptures 3D printing can facilitate, it’s the idea that the mechanism can actualize something that was once just a 2D image (digital or otherwise) that...
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Glitched Helvetica, The Kraftwerk-Inspired KWERK, And Other Unusual Typefaces
When it comes to what typeface to use, we all like to stick to what we know. Maybe you’re a Helvetica person or maybe you favor Arial. Or maybe you like to troll people like the scientists at CERN by...
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Hyped: The Week In Links 1/4/12
It was a short week on the blog because 2012 decided to end, but here’s what went down: We did a tech Q&A with Studio Roosegaarde, a student created a concept for a musical genie in a bottle, we...
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A Birthday Letter To Michael Stipe [Bad Pun Warning]
It’s been over a year since R.E.M. disbanded, but we’ve still been enthralled with Michael Stipe’s active Tumblr and the artistic works of the former frontman, many of which he discusses in the video...
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Creators Remix Roundup: Jamie xx, Florence + The Machine, And Birdy Nam Nam
Our Creators are a talented and prolific bunch, and our inbox is always overflowing with alerts of new remixes and mashups from the incredible DJs and producers in our line-up. We just couldn’t keep...
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Danny Perez Lends His Visuals To Gang Gang Dance's Side Project
Danny Perez has lent his expertise to a number of bands, augmenting their sonic expressions with visuals that range from beautiful (Animal Collective) to straight up twisted (Hot Chip). If you’re in...
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Icelandic Music Video Transforms Empty Bookshelves Into Geometric Color Planes
Fascinated with the idea and appearance of refracted light, Icelandic artist Harald Haraldsson’s first music video endeavor brings us an unexpected spectacle created from an empty wall of bookshelves,...
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Rafaël Rozendaal Creates A Projection Mapped Art Car
Rafaël Rozendaal is an artist who usually uses the internet as a canvas for his interactive works, showcasing his art in the gallery space of cyberland, but that doesn’t mean he’s completely restricted...
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Documenting Every Minute Of Your Life With The Wearable Memoto Camera
While many of us hear about the prospect of lifelogging, you might consider that our social media feeds are essentially timelines of our lives, including pictures, thoughts, and places we’ve been. We...
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Evade Technology's Gaze With Counter Surveillance Fashion
If you’re paranoid about being spotted from above by roaming drones should they come to invade our skies, then you’re probably going to need some kind of anti-spy clothing to shield you from their...
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Sterling Crispin Weaves Virtual Algorithmic Landscapes
Digital artist Sterling Crispin—the curator behind Netstyl.es—just released the documentation for his latest work Plein Air 001 (Entropy, Terror, and the Sublime within a Cyberspace...
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A Bizarre Short Film Based Entirely On Facebook Status Updates
We’ve had Facebook: The Movie courtesy of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin, now you can have a watch of Status Update: The Movie courtesy of artist Rajeev Basu. For better or worse it uses Facebook...
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LAYERS: Mapping The Route Of The Broken Orchestra's "To A Place"
One of my favorite albums of 2012 was Dirty Art Club’s Hexes, and I was super excited to do a LAYERS piece with them before the year was out. I soon discovered the label Hexes came out on, Phonosaurus,...
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Original Creators: Experimental Sound Pioneer Yasunao Tone
Each week we pay homage to a select “Original Creator”—an iconic artist from days gone by whose work influences and informs today’s creators. These are artists who were innovative and revolutionary in...
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Deconstructing Functionality: Meet UFO Media Lab
These days technology is inescapable, so you might as well immerse yourself in what it has to offer and use it to your benefit. At least, that’s the reasoning behind the work ethic of Chinese artists...
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A Device To Measure The Emotional Make-up Of Your City
People are constantly concerned about emotional well being of themselves and their loved ones, but what about the cities of the world? No one ever asks how they’re feeling. Creative Applications...
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Take A Meditative Journey Through A Surreal Cloudscape
Most of us are probably never going to get up into space and see the earth from above—not unless you have a spare $200,000 to give Richard Branson. So we have to make do with Carl Sagan YouTube videos...
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Power Loader Exoskeleton Will Turn Us Into Super Humans
It’s been a long time coming, mainly since whenever you saw James Cameron’s Aliens and were wowed by Ripley kicking queen alien butt using the power loader. But, while not quite as badass as the...
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