today and tomorrow

‘Flat Light’ and ‘Flat Time’ by Finn Magee.
found @ MAKE Blog

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.

Hussein Chalayan is one of the most innovating fashion designers around. Do you remember his last creations which he created with the help of Moritz Waldemeyer? Here you can find that post.
Yesterday, Hussein Chalayan held his Fall/Winter 2007/2008 show. This time he presented a dress with 15000 colored LED’s, so basically the dress is a wearable video screen. You can find backstage pictures by Moritz Waldemeyer himself at dezeen.
For those who want to see it in action, here are part 1 & 2 of the show (the LED dress comes first).

No, these are not just neon tubes, these are Versa TUBES by Elementslabs. Each element is 1 meter long and it has 16 pixels in it, each pixel has a red, green and blue LED, so in the end you can create over 1 billion possible colors. If you build the tubes together like this, you’ll get 3 panes on which you can run every animation or video you can think of.
I found this picture on MannyB’s flickr account and it look like they will use it as a background for a Nike woman shoot. Now you may guess how I found it …

by the Night Writer, picture by urban_data, found at ni9e blog

Orb, an impressive persistence of view project by James N. Sears.

Moritz Waldemeyer is some sort of artist-technologist-… his works are just amazing. Here some of my favorites:

This Pong Table has 2500 integrated LED’s and 2 touch pads to recreate the classic Pong game. When switched off it’s just a table. The Roulette Table is similar but works together with the lamp.

He also helped out Ron Arad with his ‘Miss Haze’ for Swarovski.

Last but not least, he added the electronics to the 6 transforming dresses in Hussein Chalayan’s spring/summer 2007 collection.

This reminds me of the Sony Bravia Balls TVC and of this art piece by Nike Savvas, it was build with Triklits.