today and tomorrow

Page Texture by Harm Van Den Dorpel. I know that it’s only a multi-directional motion blur applied to a screenshot of a Facebook page, but I like it.

“lets-a make-a pizza pie” by Zach Rottman. Resize your browser window!

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter by Caleb Larsen is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay. Here is the auction, the current bid is $4,250.

Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.

If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.

ASCIImeo is a project by Peter Nitsch. It’s a video player which renders Vimeo videos in ASCII. You can choose between 3 different modes, but the block mode is definitely my favorite. Here you can see the ASCIImeo version of Scintillation. The screenshots below are cropped, I didn’t want to scale them down, the color patterns are just too nice.

Play the piano on YouTube! It’s an interactive video by Kokokaka.com.

Everyone knows the Techno Viking video, right? It’s that weird guy dancing in the street during the Berlin Fuck Parade in 2000. But what I didn’t know it that the original title is actually Kneecam No 1 and that it was filmed by Matthias Fritsch. He did some research on his video and found out that it was viewed over 20,000,000 times and made a small exhibition about it: The Techno Viking Archive.
Remember: “The Techno Viking doesn’t dance to the music, but the music dances to the Techno Viking”.

The Google Portrait Series by Aram Bartholl are a series of matrix-code drawings. These codes are Google URL search strings of the portrayed person. In this image, Aram searched for his name in German, English, Chinese and Korean.

Temporary.cc is the latest project of Zach Gage. In short, it’s a website that deletes itself.

For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website’s code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modifiy it.

Eventually, like tangible media, Temporary.cc will fall apart entirely, becoming a blank white website. Its existence will be remembered only by those who saw or heard about it.

Another project by Zach worth mentioning is Lose/Lose. It is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.

found at CreativeApplications.Net

“I got you something” is a pile of facebook gifts, made by Arend deGruyter-Helfer. Make sure that you also check his “untitled window 2” piece.

Disease by Jacob Broms Engblom. Warning, don’t visit the Disease link when you’re using Safari, this animated GIF might crash Safari. What a lame browser.