May 15, 2013
explore-blog: Every once in a while — often when we least expect it — we encounter someone more courageous, someone who choose to strive for that which (to us) seemed unrealistically unattainable, even elusive. And we marvel. We swoon. We gape. Often , we are in awe. I think we look at these people as lucky, when in fact, luck has nothing to do with it. It is really about the strength of their imagination; it is about how they constructed the possibilities for their Life. In short, unlike me, they didn’t determine what was impossible before it was even possible. Fail Safe – Debbie Millman’s fantastic illustrated essay of timeless advice on courage and the creative life.

explore-blog:

Every once in a while — often when we least expect it — we encounter someone more courageous, someone who choose to strive for that which (to us) seemed unrealistically unattainable, even elusive. And we marvel. We swoon. We gape. Often , we are in awe. I think we look at these people as lucky, when in fact, luck has nothing to do with it. It is really about the strength of their imagination; it is about how they constructed the possibilities for their Life. In short, unlike me, they didn’t determine what was impossible before it was even possible.

Fail Safe – Debbie Millman’s fantastic illustrated essay of timeless advice on courage and the creative life.

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Filed under: courage art debbie millman Fail Safe 
May 13, 2013
"That’s what art does, that’s what it’s for — to show you that what you think can be erased, cancelled, turned on its head by something you weren’t prepared for — by a work, by a play, a song, a scene in a movie, a painting, a collage, a cartoon, an advertisement — something that has the power that reaches you far more strongly than it reaches the person standing next to you, or even anyone else on Earth — art that produces a revelation that you might not be able to explain or pass on to anyone else, a revolution that you desperately try to share in your own words, in your own work."

— A fine addition to history’s finest definitions of art from Greil Marcus’s fantastic 2013 SVA commencement address on how the division of high vs. low robs art of its essence. (via explore-blog)

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Filed under: art philosophy 
January 23, 2013
poptech: Sound Advice Project A custom bracelet of a sound-wave rendered in 3D “designed” by the waveform of the message it encodesI would die from immense happiness it somebody got me one of theseThat’s flipping cool. (via wnycradiolab:aussieirish:meerkat-rose:sisterspock)

poptech:

Sound Advice Project

A custom bracelet of a sound-wave rendered in 3D “designed” by the waveform of the message it encodesI would die from immense happiness it somebody got me one of theseThat’s flipping cool.

(via wnycradiolab:aussieirish:meerkat-rose:sisterspock)

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Filed under: tech technology art 
October 11, 2012
"Artists are the interface between revolutions and life. Artists bring in the human factor to revolutions that get their start in technology and science. We’re used to thinking that progress comes from the technology, science, and financial sectors. Culture brings, in truth, a slower, more sustainable, more holistic and trustworthy kind of progress."

—

Paola Antonelli on her new role as MoMA’s first director of R&D. Also see Antonelli on design as the interface between progress and humanity and the communication between people and objects.

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This is kind of the central thesis of my life right now.

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Filed under: Paola Antonelli art and design science and technology art design quote culture and society 
July 25, 2012

myampgoesto11:

Audible Color by Hideaki Matsui and Momo Miyazaki

[watch the video]

Audible color is an audio-visual instrument. Sound is generated based on color detected by a web cam connected to a computer. Red, green and blue correspond with certain music notes. When the colors are mixed, the resulting secondary colors produce different notes.

The size of the colors influences the volume and frequency of the notes played. Color detection and sound generation were created and are controlled using Processing code. The system of audible color is based on a marriage between basic color and music theories. The colors of red, blue, and green are the visual foundation for color-mixing and the music notes A, D, and F are the base triad that corresponds to the colors. The secondary colors (colors made when the foundational three are mixed) of purple, teal and brown are tuned to the musical triad C, E and G. The visual of the mixing of red, blue and/or green mirrors the aural output of combined notes. 

The ‘painting’ aspect is not restricted to water droplets from a pipette. Numerous experiments were performed using substances such as acrylic paint, food dye in milk with soap, and ordinary household objects. Each investigation created a new type of fun and easy gestural music-making.

[found at Design Boom]

This is one of those wonderful ideas that immediately makes me think, “Damn, I wish I had thought of that!” A beautiful experiment in synesthesia.

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Filed under: design science art music processing synesthesia 
June 29, 2012

fastcompany:

The man-made mechanical forest, five years in the making, consists of 18 supertrees that act as vertical gardens, generating solar power, acting as air venting ducts for nearby conservatories, and collecting rainwater. To generate electricity, 11 of the trees are fitted with solar photovoltaic systems that provide lighting and assist with water flow in the conservatories below. 

Singapore’s Supertrees Light Up The Night

A wonderful marriage of science and art, functionality and beauty. Absolutely gorgeous.

(via npr)

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Filed under: singapore supertrees design art science 
June 16, 2012

theatlanticvideo:

Grow Wings or Dissolve Into a Flock of Birds in a Gorgeous Interactive Video

Chris Milk’s latest interactive project transforms viewers’ silhouettes in surreal ways. The Creators Project goes behind the scenes to find out how it works.

This video encapsulates all the things I love most about interactive art:

  • The ideas that can be expressed in new and exciting ways.
  • The look on the faces of visitors as they lose themselves in the work. “It makes you feel like you’re not really at an art gallery but you’re taking on the shape of something else and you kind of lose yourself for a second.”
  • The way the work changes and evolves in front of an audience (and the dialogue that creates). “The most interesting part for me is that with this new two-way canvas, there can be an actual conversation between the work and the viewer. And my hope is that the art becomes the way in which you speak to the piece, as much as it is in the way in which it speaks to you.”
  • And most of all, the essential fact that we have barely scratched the surface of the potential of this medium. “So we’re at the beginning of this new art form, this interactive medium where we don’t know what it will be in a hundred years, in the same way that at the beginning of cinema, they didn’t look at it as this could be color and crane shots and close-ups and dialogue and music and it could be The Godfather. We’re at the same stage with this interactive medium.”

I find everything about this invigorating and exciting.

(via theatlantic)

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Filed under: Interactive Art and Computational Design Chris Milk The Treachery of Sanctuary The Creators Project art interactive art 
April 11, 2012

poptech:

experimentsinmotion:

Jewelry in motion: Kinetic architecture for your hands

by Dukno Yoon

We have always been fascinated with kinetic art at PopTech. 

More simple, pretty, useless machines. I love how light and airy these look, the Da Vinci-esque style, and how immediate the interaction is. Beautiful design.

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Filed under: art kinetic art 
March 28, 2012
curiositycounts: Life imitates art in Perpetual Ocean, an absolutely gorgeous HD animation of our ocean currents as NASA Scientific Visualization Studio sees. Any fan of Van Gogh’s Starry Nights will see the beauty in this enchanting interpretation of data.  Click through for the hypnotizing video.

curiositycounts:

Life imitates art in Perpetual Ocean, an absolutely gorgeous HD animation of our ocean currents as NASA Scientific Visualization Studio sees. Any fan of Van Gogh’s Starry Nights will see the beauty in this enchanting interpretation of data. 

Click through for the hypnotizing video.

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Filed under: Science NASA Art Van Gogh 
March 2, 2012

poptech:

Spectacular snow patterns

Artist Simon Beck must really love the cold weather! Along the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, he spends days plodding through the snow in raquettes (snowshoes), creating these sensational patterns of snow art. Working for 5-9 hours a day, each final piece is typically the size of three soccer fields! The geometric forms range in mathematical patterns and shapes that create stunning, sometimes 3D, designs when viewed from higher levels.

I like the contrast between the simplicity of this idea and the complexity of the finished work. The natural setting and inherently transitory nature of the work remind me of Andrew Goldsworthy. Plus, it’s stunning.

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Filed under: art environment snow winter design Simon Beck Savoie France geometric patterns 
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