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Printers doing cool things
I love the idea of ordinary tools being used for extraordinary purposes. Here’s an example. Linked printers, synced up, making pretty pictures. Lovely. By Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth.
BBC’s eerie Life and Fate trail
This excellent little animation was created by Daniel Binns for BBC Radio 4′s dramatisation of Life and Fate. Daniel has produced some other real nice films, including this one about control and panic.
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Tagged animation, art, bbc radio 4, daniel biins, design, life and fate, radio play
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Fancy French rail advert
Here’s a pretty advert for Réseau Ferré de France, the firm that maintains France’s rail network. Nice use of the tilt-shift effect, which everyone still loves. Network Rail are now asking the government for ‘giant hand’ funding.
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Tagged art, design, network rail, Réseau Ferré de France, tilt-shift video, video
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The mini motorway project
You know what it’s like looking out of a plane window at all the little buildings, cars and roads below. Well, US artist Chris Burden creates a similar experience with Metropolis II. Hundreds of toy cars navigate their way around … Continue reading
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Tagged art, chris burden, design, hot wheels, kinetic sculpture, la, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, metropolis II
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Camera lens cross section
Ever wondered what goes on inside a camera lens? Well, turns out it’s rather a lot. This lens was sliced in half by some camera students as part of a graduation project. For the geeks out there, it’s a Leica … Continue reading
Tim Hetherington’s war
War photographer Tim Hetherington covered some of the bloodiest conflicts of the last 20 years. His work in Liberia and Afghanistan provided a fascinating insight into the lives of people involved in those wars. Here he is discussing a film he … Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, art, journalist, photography, tim hetherington, war
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Cool 3D building projection
You may have seen some of these large-scale 3D building projections before, but this one is really rather impressive. The German designers say the aim was to ‘break through the fabric of the building’.
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Tagged 3d, architecture, art, augmented, design, germany, projection
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An introduction to genetics
I was always quite into science at school (even if I didn’t understand most of it), so this little genetics explainer caught my eye. Maybe if cool animations like this had existed when I was young I might have learned … Continue reading
Google street view art
It seems google street view is useful for more than just stalking your friends /enemies /neighbours. The 9-eyes project pulls together some arty shots captured by google’s roaming camera cars – and they’re pretty damn good.
The musical subway map
A rather clever conductor has created the video below which turns the NY subway map into a stringed instrument. The animation is based on a realtime MTA schedule, mapping trains that departed in the last minute, gradually speeding up to … Continue reading