today and tomorrow

In this video, you’ll learn how to make ‘The Frog’ the Instant Origami way.

William Lamson is an artist and you should watch all his video works! If you like this kind of art, you will definitly like Roman Singers work too.

found at kottke

Photochromic chemicals are … I don’t even know. In this video, you can see a tube filled with a clear liquid (a hexaarylbiimidazole derivative). But when you expose it to UV light, it changes it’s color to green instantly. If you want to know more about it, then read this article at The Chem Blog.

found at MAKE: Blog

Be Kanye is a viral campaign for Absolut Vodka, starring Kanye West. Would you like to have famous superstar power? Then prepare yourself for the miracle of … Be Kanye.

‘Ordering Be Kanye was the ABSOLUT best thing I’ve ever done for myself.’

You have to give him some credit for this, and I still love that video for ‘Can’t tell me Nothing‘.

This project called ‘Slit-scan Cam‘ by Casey Pugh has exactly the same video effect as ‘Chronotopic Anamorphosis‘ by André Mintz. The only difference is that Casey build it with Flash, so you can try it out for yourself if you have a webcam.

Yuri Suzuki is a Japanese product designer and electronic music artist living in London. Here are 3 projects by him.

Sound Chaser
A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records.

Prepared Turntable
A turntable that focuses on actively composing and playing music.
This record player has 5 tone arms, each of which can have its volume controlled by its own fader.
This is an analogue answer for the digitalized DJ.

Finger Player
I guess that the video and the pictures explain everything.

The AirPiano is project by Omer Yosha, an Interface Design student from the FH Potsdam (Germany).

The AirPiano is an innovative musical interface which allows playing and controlling software instruments simply by moving hands in the air.

Above the AirPiano is a virtual matrix of keys and faders, each assigned with MIDI messages and ready to be triggered. The length of a triggered note is equivalent to the time a hand
is placed on the corresponding virtual key.
This is also confirmed by LED feedback.
The AirPiano Software allows easy setup, loading/saving presets and transposing notes.

The AirPiano is still in its prototype phase and its concept of a virtual matrix might eventually be used for other applications and purposes.
The AirPiano concept is filled as a Provisional U.S. Patent Application (Number: 60/989,986).

In this video he uses his AirPiano to control Ableton Live.

found at Create Digital Music

This video ‘Chronotopic Anamorphosis’ is quite simple but the effect is just amazing. It’s part of André Mintz his Marginalia Project. He wrote this piece of software with Processing, which can slice up a video feed horizontally in real-time and display those pieces with a one frame delay. It’s based on Zbigniew Rybczynski’s “The Fourth Dimension”.
Make sure you see the effect when he opens the door!

Maybe you have noticed, I’m quite a big fan of Joy Division. This video for Disorder was cut together from scenes from the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. Excellent work!

So today is my last day at work, almost everything is done …
This time I’ll only have a fews off, till I start my new job at Plantage Berlin.

found at nerdcore