Hiroo Iwata developed these Robot Tiles. You have to imagine them as movable floor tiles which arrange them automatically in front of you as you walk. They’re covered with KURALON® EC, a textile made of conductive fibers. So when you step on it, it can detect in with direction you’re heading. It was part of the Tokyo Fiber ’09 Senseware exhibition during the Milan furniture fair.
As always, a video will make it clear to you.
found at stylepark
It’s only one month till the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. But the Wrath of Cannes ad festival might be a nice alternative if you stay in New York. The trophy is definitely better.
found @stefanboublil
The ARS Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, has quite an impressive facade. It is actually a huge display, 1085 windows are equiped with fully controllable LED’s.
“Lights On” is an audio visual performance, the visual programming with openFrameworks was done by Zachary Lieberman, Joel Gethin Lewis and Damian Stewart. Daito Manabe did the music with support from Taeji Sawai and Kyoko Koyama. The colors of the LED’s changed in realtime to the music that was broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building. They recorded the output, both the music and LED animation for later replay.
found at swissmiss
Dispatchwork is project by Jan Vormann where he fills up holes in walls with Lego bricks. He did this before in Bocchignano, a village close to Rome, and Tel Aviv. This time he did in Berlin, where he and many spontaneous helpers filled World War II bullet holes at a building of Humbold University. You can find some other patched walls around town too.
He also has a exhibition at the Jarmuschek + Partner gallery in Berlin till June 13th.
Photos by Kathleen Waak.
found at yatzer
I really really like the work of Andy Gilmore. It’s all about colors, geometric shapes and patterns. So someone took one of his last designs and turned it into an animated gif. Excellent.
found at gonzalogilescudero
Xolor is an interactive Flash experiment by Dimitri Lima. More colors than you can handle!
found at netdiver
This Waste Bin designed by Grace Youngeun Lee looks damn fine to me. I’m just not sure if it’s that practical.
found at swissmiss
“Stained Glass Post-Pixelators” is a new project by Posterchild. It is actually different version of his “Stained Glass” project from last year. This time he placed Jesus post-pixelators figures over the HD advertising screen at the subway entrances in New York. These post-pixelators diffuse the light from the screens and turn the Jesus figures in something like animated paintings. But I guess when you watch the video everthing will become clear. By the way, the hands spell out P-O-S-T in sign language.
This an amazing photo of the solar transit of the space shuttle Atlantis, made by Thierry Legault on May 12th. The duration of the transit was only 0.3 seconds and the shuttle was in orbit at a height of 260 km. You can see another photo of the solar transit of the Atlantis and Hubble telescope together here.
