So it’s been 24 hours since today and tomorrow’s 5th birthday SPEED SHOW: animated GIFs.
It’s time to thank the 18 animated GIF artists! But of course also everyone who showed up at the event. I hope you all liked it.
I guess some of you would have been there if they were in Berlin last night. Your support is very much appreciated!
There wouldn’t have been a SPEED SHOW if F.A.T. Lab and Aram Bartholl didn’t came up with this format.
A big thank you to everyone!
For those of you who want to see the 18 animated GIF’s, here’s the list:
Wednesday 21th of July 2010, 21:00 – 00:00
or@nien net
Oranienstrasse 185, Berlin (google maps link)
The line up:
Nicolas Sassoon, Laura Brothers, Xavier Barrade, Francoise Gamma, REED + RADER, MATHWRATH, Harm van den Dorpel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mark Portillo, Petra Cortright, Travess Smalley, teenocide, Jacob Broms Engblom, Princess Hijab, dvdp, Brandon Jan Blommaert, Constant Dullaart, Evan Roth
hamburg is one of those cities which right now gets massively gentrificated. in the last 10-20 years they’ve built so much big, ugly, empty useless office spaces. and apparently nobody really needs those offices since more than a million square meters are unoccupied.
the sad thing about this is that the law here doesn’t allow you to live in an office building. so the living space is getting rare and extremely expensive. i am looking since 3-4 years for a nice flat for
my girlfriend and me. no chances to get something payable.
i planned to do this series some time ago but never did it. when pieter asked me to participate at the 5 years birthday of today and tomorrow, it was a perfect motivation to get on my bike and start shooting. all shots were in a circle of 4 km around the place i live in, the harbour.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! From one 5 year old to another! Thank you for 5 years of endless inspiration and daily fascination ~ you’ve certainly been one of my favorites to read! And thank you, to Mercedes, for bringing us together in person this year finally! So given that both of us cover so much randomness and art daily ~ my friend Leo Corrales and i decided to let your site inspire us and see what grew from that ~ so here’s our little birthday card to you! 5 is a huge milestone, and we’re so honored you invited us to guest post this little note!
I can’t wait to see what the next 5 years will hold!
So, *cheers* to the future!
Love, NOTCOT.
p.s.
We’d also like to challenge your readers to share their birthday cards to Today and Tomorrow! I’d love to see what you inspire others to do as well!
This is a guest post by Fabian Sax (@thiswaste), This Wasteland.
You might want to turn down the volume a little. Sorry Fabian, I just had to warn everyone.
I met Pieter for the first time in Berlin earlier this year at a small exhibition in Kreuzberg, part of Berlin’s Transmediale. On show, amongst many was Julius von Bismarck with his Image Fulgurator and Pieter passionately talking to me about it. Of course, Pieter has covered it as he does always the most exciting and interesting content on the web. It’s a pleasure to be part of the 5th year celebration…thank you Pieter and Happy Birthday!! Today and Tomorrow! Now, my little contribution to the wonderful collection of projects on T&T.
Nadia
Created by Berlin based Andrew Kupresanin, Nadia is a camera that has no display of the photographs to be taken, but rather gives the judgment of aesthetic quality to the machine, displaying only a current rating as feedback about when and what to snap. The camera shown here comprises a PyS60 script running on a Nokia N73, a Java App running on a Mac and the online ‘aesthetic quality inference engine’ ACQUINE . The PyS60 script takes a photo which is sent via Bluetooth to the Java App, and from there uploaded to ACQUINE. The returned rating is then sent back to the camera N37 and displayed.
Artificial Smile is a collaboration between Stefan Stubbe and Andreas Schmelas realized in the summer semester 2009 at “Digitale Klasse”, University of the Arts, Berlin. The camera plays with the notion of perfection and auto-retouch. Created as a picture apparatus, it shows only smiling people’s picture to be taken, irrespective of their former emotional state.
Buttons in a project by Sascha Pohflepp playing on the notion of the camera as a networked object. Unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn’t have any optical parts. It is a camera that will only capture a moment at the press of a button by recording only the time it was pressed. Quickly after it begins to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment and displays on the screen. Essentially, it is a camera that – using a SonyEricsson K750i hidden behind the boxing – takes other’sphotos. Photos that were created by someone who pressed a button somewhere at the same time as its own button was pressed.
Filip Visnjic is an architect, lecturer, writer and a new media technologist born in Belgrade currently living in London. Specialised in consulting and directing web, new media and architectural projects, Filip also contributes to a number of blogs and magazines about art, design and technology. He is an editor-in-chief at CreativeApplications.Net, a director at Working Architecture Group, and lectures at a number of universities across the UK. You can find him on Twitter 12, FFFFound image sharing website, Flickr and FriendFeed for stream.
This is a guest post by Costas Voyatzis of yatzer.
The first time I came upon Today & Tomorrow was somewhere in Athens, Greece in the middle of December 2007. Regardless of dates & location, I fell in love with its content immediatelly. After that I spent a lot of hours catching up on the posts that had been published since the 21st July 2005, and today I have to admit that I am one of its thousand avid readers.
Last week I received an invitation which I couldn’t reject. Pieter, the man behind Today & Tomorrow, kindly asked me to send him a post due to his 5th anniversary. So here it is, inspired by the compelling DIY (Do It Yourself) culture, a fashion shoot which was published in the latest WAD magazine, “The R-Evolution issue” No45.
Ndeur (Mathieu Missiaen) and Make a Paper World (Julien Morin), two French artists who compose Le Creative Sweatshop, designed a series of paper fashion accessories exclusively for WAD magazine. The accessories seem to be part of the models as you can see through the eyes of photographer Matthieu Deluc. According to Mathieu and Julien “Creativity is all around us – it is something you must constantly work on, whereas the more you are surrounded by a creative environment the more creative you become – creativity is an everyday job and consists of hard work’.
The French duo really know what creativity means and I’m 100% sure that Pieter has the same belief.
Please keep stimulating our fantasy and feed our inspiration with your selections which will always be irresistible.
