David Bowie Returns As A Little Puppet In An Eerie Video By Tony Oursler
After a decade without a new record, David Bowie fans were pretty certain that the legendary musician was de facto retired, but that assumption shattered today with the release of his new single “Where...
View ArticleAnamanaguchi Let The Cat Out Of The Bag With "Meow"
I didn’t think Anamanaguchi could get any more hyper from the looks of their live shows, but after watching their FIRST music video (out today!) for “Meow,” I’m sitting here spinning from all the 90s...
View ArticleRevolutions In Gaming At CES: What We'd Like To See More Of From The Console...
The Consumer Electronics Show kicked off earlier today in Las Vegas, and reports on the next generation of gadgets and technologies are already flowing in. In the realm of gaming, several new players...
View ArticleAlcohol Aware Glowing "Ice Cubes" Know When You've Had Enough To Drink
No doubt you over did it on the booze over the holidays, and maybe you had one of those alcohol-induced blackouts because you drank too much egg nog and woke up on the living room floor with your...
View ArticleDocumentary Explores How We Might Interact With The Devices Of Tomorrow
You’re probably kept awake at night wondering about the future of interaction design and user experience, tossing and turning as you ponder the interactive interfaces we’ll be engaging with in the...
View ArticleFeng Mengbo's Latest Exhibition Mashes Up Calligraphy And Gaming
Chinese multimedia artist and game designer Feng Mengbo’s work often involves digital technology, from gamifying communist China and Western capitalism into a Mario-like platformer in installation Long...
View ArticleUser Preferences: Tech Q&A With Adrien M And Claire B
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: Adrien...
View ArticleJ.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye Inspires An Unusual Short Film
The film starts with what looks like petals floating to the ground, tons of gray and black crashing, and then sprouts into a field of sharp stalks. Into this field enters a polygonal bearded man, who...
View ArticleHEALTH Breaks Down Their Score For Max Payne 3
In 2001, Rockstar Games changed the very nature of gaming with a release called Grand Theft Auto III. A sequel to a free-roaming cult hit, GTA was one of the first major blockbusters in a new era of...
View ArticleFashion Photographer Recreates The Playful, Surreal Environment Of Her Dreams...
Joy Island is an emerging young fashion photographer based in Beijing, and she can’t stop dreaming about Yayoi Kusama. When the opportunity came for her to materialize her “dream project,” she pulled...
View ArticleRobotic Spider Dress Replaces Shoulder Pads With Insectoid Legs
If you want to freak out the drinkers down at your local watering hole, then you could do worse than donning this robotic hexapod dress that puts the creep into “Jesus! What the hell is she wearing?”...
View ArticleTurn Photos Of Your Head Into A 3D Paper Model
You’ve always wanted a 3D paper printout of your own head, haven’t you? That way you can put it on a stick and pretend like you’re conversing with a decapitated android version of yourself. An android...
View ArticleBeasts Of The Southern Wild Is Up For Four Academy Awards
Last January, filmmaker Behn Zeitlin and his grassroots crew Court 13 wowed audiences at Sundance, taking home a Special Jury Prize for their breakout film Beasts of the Southern Wild—a fantastical...
View ArticleFIELD's Energy Flow: The Microscopic Splendor Of Particle Physics In "LHC"
The intricate and unpredictable world of particle physics is the subject for the sixth story in Energy Flow, a non-linear film project from FIELD. Beneath the surface of the matter that surrounds us...
View Article"Mirage" Is A Visual And Sonic Portrait Of An Unknown City
As motion graphics lean towards the snappy and software grows ever more robust, “Mirage” is a music video that stands out for its restraint. In the piece (above), sound and motion designer Frederic...
View ArticleBringing Back The Old Days Of Electric Boogie With DâM-FunK's Dam Drum 2.0
With the 80-button Ableton Push coming out this year, we’ve reached a new level of controller complexity, and you can do more on the fly than ever before. But do you remember the simpler days when all...
View ArticleChop, Mix, And Stir Beats As If You're Cooking With Beatoven
We’ve seen hybrid devices combining the vastly different arts of music and cooking in the past, and while combining the hardware for both into one product may be misguided and even dangerous, here’s...
View ArticleTake Polaroid Pictures of Your Online Life
One thing that digital technology has effectively made obsolete but still clings to is the Polaroid camera. Having a digital camera on your phone (and replicating the aesthetic of a Polaroid with...
View ArticleOnline Anonymity Is Explored In This Creepy Interactive Installation
Online anonymity: it’s a dubious luxury. On the one hand, it means people can highlight corruptions and injustices in the world without retribution. On the other it’s given birth to the culture of...
View ArticleAaajiao Transforms The Facade Of Shanghai Art Museum With Projection Mapping...
Aaajiao has a knack for re-imagining existing structures and landscapes so that we consider them in a new context. Using projection mapping and sound design, he recently transformed the facade of...
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