“Of How We Have to Leave Doubts, Expectations and the Unachieved” is an installation by André Gonçalves. Each time a visitor enters the room, a balloon is released. Industrial fans then blow the balloon around in an unpredictable way. A camera sends an feed to a computer which calculates the distance, angle and speed of the balloon. This data is passed on to a paintball gun which then tries to shoot the balloon. It would have been nice if the visitors could control the fans so they could try to save the balloon from the gun. But the computer is probably faster than any human interaction.
A while ago I posted a video called Displacements by Michael Naimark. He basically filmed a room, then he spray-painted it completely white and in the end he projected the video back on those white objects in the room.
I was always wondering when this visual gimmick would be used for a TV commercial. Well, the waiting is over: “Puma Lift“. The New York ad agency Droga5 made this film where you can see a couple moving through different virtual sceneries. In the end they reveal that the whole room and the clothing was actually white and that it was a projection.
I think that the film is great, it was probably a lot of work to get the movements and the projection in sync. But they could have presented this film to any other brand, it is very generic.
You should watch it anyway!
Hilary Berseth made these sculpture with a lof of help from bees. He constructs a basic framework made of wire and wax, the bees add then their honeycomb. The process takes time and the outcome is not predictable.
Rotational Moulding is an industrial production technique, used for creating many hollow plastic objects. Marloes ter Bhömer is a Dutch designer based in London, who took this technique to produce this shoe. I guess this is more some sort of conceptual exercise than a real product idea.
You can go and see this project, among many others, at the exhibition Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2009 at the Design Museum in London till the 14th of June.
This video shows you how the Rotational Moulded Machine tumbles (without a mould though).
