Learning From is a project by Nora Korn & Christoph Köhler. Over a period of 3 months, they collected and documented bulky trash. This resulted in fifty piles of
bulky waste and in eleven items of newly combined, rebuilt or converted bulky waste. Here are my 4 favorites:
found at It’s Nice That
Vektron Modular is a modular, algorithmic synthesizer made by Niklas Roy. The interesting part is that you can swap the microcontroller modules on which the compositions are stored. I whish I had the skills to build something like this.
“Limm” aren’t some strange sculptures but computer generated images by depotArt. Although it would be cool to build these in paper.
found at but does it float
Nike Music Shoe is an awesome ad for the Nike Free Run+ shoe. In the video you can see Hifana doing a live performance by using the shoes as controllers. By bending the flexible sole of the Nike Free Run+, they can control different sounds. I’m actually pretty sure that it is real because I think that I spotted Daito Manabe in the video. And we all know what he’s capable of. I guess they’ve used some flexible sensors and hooked them up to MaxMSP. Great work!
UPDATE:
Indeed the shoes used in the video are the real sound controllers. Tomoaki Yanagisawa of 4nchor5 la6 was responsible for the hardware part. He added flexible and accelerometer sensors to the shoes. Daito Manabe of rhizomatiks did the sound programming with Max.
They were both commissioned by Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo for this project.
Alejandro Aravena designed the Chairless, a seating device for the modern nomad, for Vitra. It’s just a strap of fabric which you put around your knees and back. Alejandro was inspired by a picture of an Ayoreo Indian sitting with such a strap. This is definitely not a typical Vitra product.
A part of the proceeds will be used to support the “Foundation for Paraguayan Indian Communities”.
The Sonic Wire Sculptor is an iPhone app version of a musical instrument by Amit Pitaru. It allows you to draw in 3D and turns your scribbles into sound. It is actually quite intuitive and anybody should be able to generate something nice with it.
Zach Gage did most of the programming with Amit’s support, but also Zach Lieberman and James Paterson. They’ve used the ofxIphone and openFrameworks open source libraries.
Maybe this looks quite familiar to you, you could actually call it the sound version of the drawing tool Rhonda, made by the same team.
“Speed of Light” is a series of immersive light installations by UnitedVisualArtists, it was commisioned by Virgin Media to celebrate the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK. The installations explore the themes of communication and modernity. UnitedVisualArtists decided to use fibre optics as it’s a perfect fit to the broadband theme.
At the entrance, the visitors are asked a question, they can speak their answers into a microphone. That input is then used by several parts of the installation to guide the lasers. I’m pretty sure that it’s impossible to capture the whole experience with some photos. So if you’re in London, you can go and see “Speed of Light” at the Bargehouse till April 19th.
found at the Creative Review Blog
Analog Digital Clock is an iPhone app designed by Maarten Baas. Actually, it’s just the iPhone version of one of his Real Time clocks which he presented during last years Salone del Mobile in Milan. The clock is actually a film, you can see an actor painting the segments of a giant digital clock black and then wiping them clean again.
So, this is of course a pointless iPhone app but still a very nice one. And $0.99 or €0.79 are worth it.
This is a behind the scene photo, showing you how they filmed it.
