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Pivot

george — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:25:00 +0000

Ring Pops

gareth — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:21:38 +0000

Sweet installation by Julia Chiang.

Joy Division

gareth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:23:40 +0000

Excellent documentary on early 80s Manchester (and the UK in general), post punk and the rise of Joy Division. Writer Jon Savage and director Grant Gee fully submerse you in the world of Ian Curtis, other band members and notable artists of that period.

Currently available on Hulu (not sure for how long).

Big Cyr

gareth — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:56:07 +0000

Great van paintings by Kevin Cyr. Also currently has work at Mixed Greens in NY and 941 Geary in SF.

http://www.kevincyr.net/

Pretty amazing and epic stop motion by Blu

george — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:09:22 +0000

BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Fast and Furious TShirt

george — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:42:33 +0000

Available from Skreened.

GoldFish Orchestra

george — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:21:45 +0000

“Quintetto” is a nice little installation based on the study of the movement of goldfish used as input for the production of sounds. The fish’s movement is motion captured and translated into sound – each fish representing a different musical instrument.

http://www.quietensemble.com/

Recursion

george — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:53:13 +0000

Another great minimalist video from Maxim Zhestkov

Cape Town Transport

george — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:37:44 +0000

I came across this yesterday – Capsule 02 – a project Gareth and I did ages ago which tells you about Cape Town Transport and other such stuff.

The content was distributed on a 1.44mb disk (mainly because they were cheap and deemed completely “unsuitable” for a magazine) and won numerous awards. I shudder at the navigation, but the content is still quite fun.

Maak Gou Manne – Die Groot Beeker Kom

george — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:20:13 +0000

The Big Cup is coming to South Africa. Dress for success. Dress to impress.

Now available from the very fine MySoti Store

(* Headline translates roughly as: Hurry guys! The Big Cup is coming)

Estrella Intersects the Plane

george — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:03:10 +0000

Playing homage to James Turrell, ITP student Matthew Richard has built this pretty sweet kinetic light sculpture, an area of work that I am really interested in. 80 RGB LEDs create a animated color field painting by letting the light itself mix together on a canvas. The 2 LEDs are placed at the tips of 40 arms that are arranged in a circle and controlled by 40 servos. One LED faces towards the center of the circle and the other faces away from the center. Subtle differences in servo timing and LED values create color patterns resemble wasting sunsets and sunrises melding and disappearing.

Said Richard: “I wanted to create a living color field painting using a mechanical interface instead of a projector.”

Here’s a documentation video:

Via Rhizome.

BNE Localized

gareth — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:54:08 +0000

Tired of meaningless BNE stickers plastered all over your hood? Time to localize…
Give them some local relevance by just adding a letter, whether you’re in NY, London, Paris or Cape Town.

Helvetica Neue Bold Condensed at 85% horizontal scaling.