Auto Smiley is the latest F.A.T. project by Theo Watson. It’s a little app that runs in the background while you work. It analyzes your face and each time it detects a smiley, it adds a smiley :) to the front most application. Theo used openFrameworks and MPT for the smile detection. Of course you can download the app and the sources here (I actually had to change some values in the source code so that it would work with my keyboard).
Kitty is a computer animation made by a group of russian physicists and mathematicians in 1968. They created a model of cat with a BESM-4 computer and were able to animate it. The result was printed out using alphabet symbols and then converted to the cinefilm.
The Conductor is a video installation by Rashaad Newsome. He isolated, enlarged and repositioned hand moves from Hip Hop music videos to create a conductor for “O Fortuna” and “Fortune Plango Vulnera” form Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”. Dope!
Update: The embedded video is offline, but you can watch the video here. (thanks bob)
found at Rhizome
CHROMAesthesiae is an installation by SOFTlab at the Devotion gallery in New York. It’s made of laser cut photo glossy ink jet paper and every panel has a unique color gradient. They’ve choosen for very simple technique to build the funnels: binder clips. Colorful!
found at designboom weblog
Enigmatica is a research project by Kit Webster, it’s about combining light, sound and space to create multi-dimensional synesthetic environments. Very nice work!
found at CreativeApplications
Mikrokosmos is an installation by Bigert & Bergström. The spherical photos are lit from the inside.
found at wowgreat
Weird video of the day: Oneiroi Lines by NYX.
I wouldn’t mind having one of Rafal Bujnowski his Lamp Black paintings on my wall.
found at voodoovoodoo
