today and tomorrow

Andy Uprock calls his street art: Cuprocking. He sticks white plastic cups in fences to create patterns, some even get a spray can treatment.

found at rebel:art

This is quite a nice TV commercial for Guinness, unfortunatly the beer itself isn’t that good.

Iwan Baan is a Dutch photographer who documented the construction of the National Stadium in Beijing, that was designed by Herzog & de Meuron (don’t they have their own website?). I’m quite fascinated by this huge lamp in the first picture. Does anyone have some information about it?
You can find a lot of really nice architecture photography in Iwans portfolio.

Artist of the day: Guy de Cointet.

found at vvork

Jello Time by Rafaël Rozendaal. You’ll have to go to that website to see what it’s about. His other projects like ColorFlip or Paper Toilet are fun too.
found at swissmiss

Timbap is a platform-independent application for augmented DJing. It was developed by students and assistants of the University of Ulm (Germany). It provides a rugged tangible interface for browsing your music collection and manipulating playback by scratching, pitching, skipping etc. Like many others it is based on an acoustic timecode signal recorded to vinyl records. In contrast to existing digital solutions however, it completely releases the DJ from mouse, keyboard and monitor. Instead it relies on physical interaction with the standard club turntable only.

It still sounds quite strange, right? So basically it is a projected video interface for selecting mp3’s. Maybe this video will make it all clear to you.
Guessing from the amount of student DJ projects, there are a lot of bedroom DJ’s among the students out there.

found at MAKE: Blog

Motion and Extend by Benbo George.

Viktor is the younger brother of Hektor, a spraycan robot. Viktor on the other hand uses chalk and likes blackboards. Viktor has 4 motors instead of 2, but otherwise they are quite similar. You can send almost any  vector image to these devices and they will draw/spray them on a wall. If you’re in London, you can go see Viktor in action at the exhibition ‘A Recent History of Writing and Drawing’ at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Both were developed by Jürg Lehni.

This is a visualisation of numbers by lennyjpg for Esquire.ru.

‘Mrs & Mr Potato’ by Scholten & Baijings.
I have no clue what this is, a bowl maybe.
found at grijs