‘Spinal Rhythms‘ is the thesis project of Eva Schindling. The subtitle is ‘Autonomous Embodied Evolution of a Biomimetic Robot’s Rhythmic Motion Behavior’, I’ve read it a few times and I’m still puzzled. It’s all about the physical movement of a stick-creature and its fitness. She didn’t use any electric motor to move the limbs but elastic shape memory alloy springs. Those contract when heated with electic current and expand when the cooldown, an Arduino board controls the whole system (an open source physical computing platform). It is of course very conceptual but maybe the video will clear up a few things.
‘Take it to the next level’ is the new commercial for Nike Football, directed by Guy Ritchie. A campaign by 72andSunny from Amsterdam. Nice perspective!
The Graffiti Reseach Lab, known for their LED throwies and their Laser Tag, made a DVD of their first Season. The first screening will be this saturday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. You can attend too, but be quick to get yourself a ticket! More info here, the trailer you can watch here and here you can find the torrent.
I’m a true ni9e / F.A.T. fanboy, here is his next project: Explicit Content Only, a vinyl album. On side A you can hear a curse words only version of N.W.A.’s classic album Straight Outta Compton. On the B side is the Explicit Content Only version of Eazy-E’s ‘Eazy Duz It’. You can of course buy it or download the mp3’s. Or even better, watch it spin.
Joshua Allen Harris, the artist responsible for those Plastic Bag Animals in New York, has made 2 new ones: the Air Subway Monster and the Air Monkey. I’m quite impressed with their size!
Here is an interview with Karl Lagerfeld about creativity, advertising, brands … . It was recorded last week during the annual Art Directors Club Germany congress in Berlin, so unfortunately it is only in German. He delivers one truth after the other one, it’s really entertaining. Definitely worth watching if you speak some German.
A few weeks ago, Sony had a big commercial shoot in Miami. This time it wasn’t for their Bravia TV’s but for their digital cameras and camcorders. And what did they use … millions of liters of foam. Here you can see some photos.
It reminds me a little of this commercial that Pleix made for them last year.
‘The Way Things Go‘ is a film by Peter Fischli & David Weiss, an artists duo from Switzerland. It’s a 30 minutes chain reaction video made in 1987, and definitely worth watching. I can also recommend the video work by Roman Signer.
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