Diego Stocco came up with a quadruple-neck experimental instrument called “Experibass”. To play it he uses cello and double bass bows, a device built with fishing line and hose clamps, a paintbrush, a fork, spoons, a kick drum pedal and a drum stick. Very cool!
While reading the October issue of Wired magazine I noticed that more and more advertisements are using 2D barcode tags to enrich different ad campaigns. My eye is immediately drawn to the digital tags at the bottom right corner of the page, skipping over the enticing headlines and sexy photography, hoping to interact with the [...]
Check out this animation from Google Japan demonstrating How Google Earth Works. I like how well they are able to translate something so technical into such an easy-to-follow process. see more here
The contemporary art museum, Fondation Cartier is currently exhibiting Grafitti Taxonomy: Paris 2009. The project contains a repository of about 2,400 graffiti tags found in Paris France. Each tag can be explored to discover calligraphic-like similarities between individual text characters. The 10 most commonly used letters were identified for further study (i.e. A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U). [...]
I just saw this behind-the-scenes footage today, but it has been up for about 3 months. What you’re seeing is two typographers, Pierre & Damien, and a pro race pilot, Stef van Campenhoudt, collaborating to design a font with a car. The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary [...]
Here is a demo of a little song I wrote called “Paco Rouge”. This song is a latin-inspired acoustic jam. It’s helpful for me to record a few trial demos to really get a song down before setting up a formal studio session. This demo only includes a few layered acoustic guitar tracks. It needs [...]