Light Projections on Sculptures

Sober Industries et le Studio Rewind ont collaboré pour développer de superbe jeux de lumière sur sculptures. Appelée « Welcome to the Future », cette installation a permis de projeter des jeux de lumières sur 2 sculptures en bois représentant respectivement un rhinocéros et un hibou. Des détails dans la suite.

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Indoor Cloud Formed with Kites

Superabundant Atmosphere est le nom d’une installation développée par l’artiste new-yorkais Jacob Hashimoto. Composée de milliers de cerf-volants blancs en tissu de soie faits main collés sur des cadres de bambou, cette création est une superbe structure présentée à la Rice Gallery en 2005.

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Museum of the Moving Image

Présentée au Museum of the Moving Image à New York, Sonos Playground Deconstructed est une installation qui permet aux visiteurs de sélectionner n’importe quelle chanson depuis un iPad relié à Spotify pour ensuite admirer une visualisation de la musique projetée sur les murs. Une création très réussie signée Aramique.

Laser Cut Record

Après avoir présenté 3D Printed Record en décembre 2012, Amanda Ghassaei a développé une technique facilitant la fabrication de disques avec « laser cutter », permettant d’utiliser des matériaux tels que le bois ou le papier pour créer des disques. A découvrir en détails dans la suite en vidéo.

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Google’s New Chrome Games Are a Dream Come True. Is That a Good Thing?

Visiting the video arcade at my neighborhood mall in the '80s was both exhilarating and a bit scary. On the one hand, I feared that bigger kids would try to take all my change. (And I mean a physical shakedown, so quarters would spill from my pockets onto the pizza-smeared floor.) The adrenaline rush came from the games themselves. Asteroids, Space Invaders, Radar Scope … I loved them all. As I played, I rarely paid attention to my score. I just grooved on the sights and sounds, thrilled to each synthesized pop! bleep! and ping!, riding waves of pixelated excitement for hours on end. I wanted to meld with those machines and live in that world. Magic machines everywhere! That's what I wanted the future to be like. That was a scary thought, too, but no less wonderful for that.

Fast forward to Google's latest Chrome Experiments—two games designed to show off the advanced capabilities of the company's browser. They took me back to those arcades of my youth in ways both good and bad. This is partly because the games, "Roll It" and "Racer," are self-consciously retro. (The latter's soundtrack is by Giorgio Moroder, still taking his passion and making it happen after all this time!) Despite the nods to yesteryear, both games are cutting edge and let users play across multiple screens—phones, tablets and computers. "Racer" lets you drive a car across as many as five mobile devices. Watch it speed from the phone you're holding to the tablet in your buddy's hand! With "Roll It," you control the trajectory of a virtual skeeball on a desktop or laptop screen by moving a smartphone handset this way and that.

"Racer" and "Roll It" are both fun and absorbing—impressive slices of techno-magic that fulfill the promise of those crude arcade screens from the mall. They're like yesterday's dreams come true, brimming with possibilities for our digital tomorrows when synced systems running Chrome will conquer space and time. Still, I can't help feeling ambivalent, even dispirited about the proposition. For one thing, the joviality feels forced and works a tad too hard to sell happiness on a microchip. "Grab your phone, some friends and get ready to roll," says the "Roll It" promo clip. "No apps. No downloads. All you need is Chrome."

Booyah, Google's got the fun! It's daffy doodles, rad robots, animated animal rock groups and games all day long. Just follow the bouncing Chrome ball across screens of every shape and size … because the company now demands our attention on multiple platforms, as if retargeting humanity one screen at a time wasn't enough fun.

Ah well, there's no point in bemoaning "Big Bad Google," because I can't imagine a world without its products and services. Sure, Google's scary—but it gives us wonderful stuff, and its output has become an indispensable part of our daily existence. Maybe that's my problem. We've melded with the machines more thoroughly than I'd ever imagined, and now there's no escape. Our cursor-driven workplace tasks are essentially problem-solving games, complete with somewhat more sophisticated pops! bleeps! and pings! There aren't any shakedowns per se—just data-driven commerce. We can all groove to that, right?

I got the future I dreamed of all those years ago. So, why can't I shake the feeling that I'm the one being played?

    

Microsoft Humiliates Siri in Biting Parody of Apple’s iPad Ads

Microsoft says a mouthful in this ad from Crispin Porter + Bogusky. And—surprise!—those words are spoken by Siri, Apple's voice assistant, from an iPad sitting next to a Windows 8 tablet. As the latter wordlessly flips through various features, Siri apologies for being unable to run those programs and perform the same functions. "I'm sorry, I don't update like that," she says. "I'm sorry, I can only do one thing at a time." I half expected a tax app to pop up on the tablet's screen and be greeted by an awkward silence from Siri. Maybe in the sequel. This is Microsoft's second spot in a week to deftly parody a rival's ad style (in this case, Apple's stylish minimalism), following its skewering of Google's Chrome browser. The tablet ad, which references the iPad mini's "Piano" spot from last October, is approaching 2 million views on YouTube in just a couple of days. There are some chatty personal assistants, like Indigo, available for Windows devices. But for my taste, the ultimate Microsoft PA voice would speak in measured, calm-yet-crazy cadences, providing sadly poignant commentary as the OS crashes into a sea of blue when its mind begins to go.

    

Channel 4 – Under the Knife

Randomacts Channel 4 a collaboré avec Etta Bond sur une vidéo expérimentale pour sa chanson « Under the Knife ». Avec un clip réalisé par Jeremy Cole en une seule prise, cette vidéo a été coupé en 1 347 couches sur After Effects. Un résultat magnifique explorant la lutte de l’artiste face à sa quête de perfection.

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Nikola Tesla Takes Down Silicon Valley VCs, but Will It Get Him a Statue?

Some days it seems almost anybody can make an enjoyable video promoting a Kickstarter project, but these guys get bonus points for simultaneously giving the venture-capital system a big poke in the eye. "Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs" is a biting look at what might have happened if one of history's greatest inventors had to rely on today's venture capitalists. It also happens to promote a Kickstarter effort to build a WiFi hot spot statue of Tesla in Silicon Valley. What's interesting is that the video isn't some sort of populist celebration of Kickstarter. Instead, it depicts crowdfunding as a stopgap solution to the lack of large-scale vision among venture capitalists, whose tech-industry kingmaking is increasingly being called into question. The team behind the video, a creative project firm called Northern Imagination, admits the clip was pulled together quickly, which probably explains the strange audio levels and Tesla's questionable "Serbian" accent. But it has clearly struck a chord, inspiring GigaOm to write a 1,000-word essay on what the video "says about the state of Silicon Valley." In the meantime, the Tesla statue-raisers could still use your help. As of Thursday morning, they were still nearly $100,000 short of their goal, with only 10 days left. Via Boing Boing.

    

Mobile Concerto

Voici en exclusivité le film réalisé pour le lancement européen de la marque Hello bank!, où un orchestre symphonique piège son public grâce à une performance musicale basée sur des outils numériques. Une réalisation de Paul Dugdale (B-Reel) sur la célèbre musique de Georges Bizet – Carmen « Les Toreadors ».

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Oscillate Video

Découverte d’Oscillate, le nom du projet de la thèse d’animation de Daniel Sierra au sein de la School of Visual Arts Computer Art MFA. Utilisant plusieurs logiciels d’animation et de modélisation, cette magnifique vidéo propose de mettre en images les variations musicales. A découvrir en images et en HD dans la suite.

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Lamborghini Egoista Concept

A l’occasion de leur 50 ans, le constructeur Lamborghini a présenté à Sant Agata Bolognese le nouveau concept-car « Egoista » sous la forme d’un habitacle monoplace. Propulsé par 600 chevaux et son moteur V10, cette supercar se caractérise par son cockpit sur-mesure en fibre de carbone et en aluminium.

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DealBook: Barnes & Noble Shares Jump on Sign of Microsoft Interest in Nook

Microsoft is said to have offered to take over the Nook unit’s e-books and devices operations, but it is unclear whether there are any current talks on a possible deal.

    

Things Come Apart Project

Avec ses séries photographiques « Things Come Apart & Disassembly Series », Todd McLellan nous propose de décomposer entièrement des objets sophistiqués pour en voir toutes les pièces. Une création visuellement très réussie qui sera publiée chez Thames & Hudson durant le mois de mai. Plus dans la suite.

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Interactive Angle Mirrors

Daniel Rozin est un artiste basé à New York qui imagine des sculptures très intéressantes. Avec sa dernière création « Angle Mirrors », l’artiste nous propose un bloc triangulaire parsemé d’indicateurs qui permet de réagir à la présence du visiteur en face. Une création visuellement très réussie est à découvrir en vidéo.

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Kite Aerial Photography

Voici la série Kite Aerial Photography, basé sur la technique de photo cervolisme appelée aussi kapisme qui consiste à suspendre un appareil photo à un cerf-volant pour obtenir des clichés sous un nouvel angle. Des images splendides dont une selection de différents photographes est à découvrir dans la suite.

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Microsoft Ad Turns Forbes Print Magazines Into T-Mobile WiFi Hotspots

Microsoft stuffed a functional WiFi router into a limited number of the most recent issue of Forbes, perhaps inspired by Entertainment Weekly's use of tiny LCD screens in one of its print issues last year. Microsoft's ad, which is for Office 365, is a T-Mobile wireless router that provides 15 days of free WiFi with a two- to three-hour battery charge. Wasteful? Sure. Needlessly expensive and complicated? Totally. But it's also the coolest thing Microsoft has done in a while. Same goes for Forbes—well, along with giving NAH's newest album a thumbs-up. Via PSFK.

    

Musical Laser Forests

Les équipes de « The Creators Project » sont allés voir le studio Marshmallow Laser Feast qui explore de nouvelles expériences créatives et interactives avec des projections en temps réel. Des projets tels que la superbe Musical Laser Forests à découvrir dans une vidéo très intéressante dans la suite.

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Tokyo City Symphony 3D Mapping

Afin de fêter les 10 ans de Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (gratte-ciel de Tokyo de 238 mètres de hauteur), Tokyo City Symphony propose une expérience splendide basée sur une maquette géante du district de l’immeuble à l’échelle 1/1000 sur laquelle différents mappings absolument incroyables ont été projetés.

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Aerial Cinematography

Focus sur Air V8, spécialisé dans la réalisation de plans aériens pour tous types de créations, utilisant des multi-copters télécommandés. Afin de montrer leurs références ainsi que les possibilités, cette vidéo show-reel du plus bel effet nous dévoile des images splendides à découvrir sur une musique dynamique de Rauscher.

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The Sound and Music of Oblivion

Le studio SoundWorks nous propose de découvrir cette vidéo passionnante à propose du travail effectué sur le sound-design du très récent film « Oblivion » avec Tom Cruise. Une bande-son signée par M83 et le compositeur Joseph Trapanese, déjà connu pour son travail sur Tron Legacy. A découvrir en vidéo.

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