today and tomorrow

This new music video for ‘House of Cards’ by Radiohead is quite different. This video wasn’t shot with video cameras or even lights, but with a laser device and some sort of scanner which delivered 3D data.

Two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

So far so good, the cool thing is that is an open source project on Google Code. Even the 3D data was composited with Processing, an open source programming language and environment, to make the final video. You can also download that data and make your own remix and submit it to the YouTube ‘House of Cards’ group. Here is an interactive Flash 3D data visualisation to get you excited.

Here is the making of video:

This is the Diamond Chair by Nendo. On the first picture you can see a step in the production process, indeed it’s a rapid prototyping technique called selective laser sintering. It’s very similar to the 3D printing that Front Design used for their Sketch Furniture.
Unfortunately this technology isn’t ready for mass production yet, it takes 5 to 6 days just to print 1 chair.
More info and images at dezeen.

I can’t guarantee you that this will be the last post about Hussein Chalayan latest crystal-layer-dress. Swarovski Sparkles TV just posted the making of. Worth watching!

So here is the deal with the Hussein Chalayan spring / summer 2008 show. There was no live catwalk last night in Paris, they just screened the film that I’ve posted this morning. Of course Moritz Waldemeyer was part of the whole project and he was resposible for the dresses with hunderds of servo motor driven lasers. „These lasers are integrated in the garments, illuminating the Swarovski crystals and extending the dresses visually into space.“

Yesterday evening was the spring/summer 2008 fashion show of Hussein Chalayan in Paris. Of course I’m quite curious what he came up with this time … just remember his mechanical dress or his LED dress. SHOWstudio did a video shoot of his current collection: Readings, at the end there’s a small preview of his newest ‘technology’. Hopefully there will more online soon.

Realfakewatches is a project by Linda Kostowsk, she and other designers designed wristwatches that work only 1 minute a day. They are laser cut from genuine leather and come with both a unique time and a thinglink engraved on the back.

7 Laserdeck is project by Refill Magazine. They invited artists to design a skateboard deck with laser technology, I posted the one by Build a few days ago. It seems that laser design is on it’s way up!
Refill uploaded a lot of images of the project to flickr, the details are amazing. I want a laser machine!

A lasered skateboard deck by Build for Refill.
found at Computerlove

I’m not going to explain what you see here, I think the Dutch guy at the beginning does that perfectly. Once more a great project by the Graffiti Research Lab.

EDIT:
Here you can find a ‘how to’ and the source code for this project.

Some time ago, I posted my favorite work by the artist Olafur Eliasson: Your Black Horizon.
I also showed you what’s possible with paper and laser etching: Paperlux.
Today it’s time to combine both: Your House.

Your House is a book with 454 laser cut pages showing you the negative space of Olafur Eliassons house. There are only 225 copies of this piece of art and it will cost you 3500 $.