Archive for the ‘art’ Category

LED Eyelashes Are the Next Stage in Woman’s Self-Torturing Arms Race [Art]

Designer Soomi Park is a betrayer of her own sex. She could very well start a trend with these LED eyelashes, forcing women everywhere to painfully affix electrodes to their faces, blinding themselves with each eye-smile. (See the video!):

But we’ll admit it—this techno-barbarism is strangely hypnotic. [Soomi Park via fashioningtechnology via Valleywag]

Al Gore GPS Backpack Looks Like a C4 Bomb [Art]

Designed by artist Atelier Ted Noten, this backpack consists of a Tom Tom GPS unit embedded inside an acrylic slab. He intends to place it inside a slowly melting glacier in Switzerland—hence the title “Al Gore.”

The bizarre commentary on global warming, the the fact that it looks like a bomb and that it is part of an exhibition called Laughing Prohibited! makes this quite an amusing peace of artwork. Naturally, the exhibit comes with one of those pretentious and absurd descriptions:

Laughing Prohibited! states this clearly: there is no reason to laugh at all. Is there any (artistic) freedom of speech left after the debates on the Danish cartoons and the AEL counter-cartoons? Should you laugh about the works of these producers, than you are not sincere. Is there the legacy of Theo van Gogh still fertile? We need to concentrate and to focus in order to ask these fundamental questions. To be able to do so, we need clarity and parameters. Therefore, as a start: do not laugh!
Look closely and question: relate!

Oh, I believe my laughter is sincere. [onomatopee via Mocoloco]

Interactive Art Pushes Boundaries of Viewer, Artist

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Digital artist Camille Utterback makes installations that combine cameras, projectors and custom software to create interactive, playful paintings.

Stand in front of her work, and you’ll soon be waving your arms, walking around, spinning or hopping to figure out how your movements get translated into the abstract, colorful strokes on the screen.

“What it feels like is that the visuals are just responding to your body,” Utterback says in this video produced by Wired.com.

In these artworks, cameras track the movements of people standing in front of them, computer software translates those movements into abstract imagery according to a defined set of rules, and a projector throws the ever-evolving digital painting onto a screen in front of the viewers.

The work also invites reflection on the relationship between our bodies and the technology that surrounds us, Utterback says.

Utterback was named a MacArthur Fellow in September 2009. This $500,000, no-strings-attached “genius grant” will enable her to continue producing her art for the next five or more years.

Marvel’s Comic Book Creator Is $&@#ing Brilliant [Software]

Marvel’s Create Your Own Comic service is designed for kids, but that shouldn’t stop you.

The free online app allows you to select between a slew of page layouts, then drag and drop your favorite (mini) Marvel heroes into each panel. Of course can also add text, sound effects objects—whatever you need to flesh out that 4-part series you’ve always wanted to see in which a prepubescent Wolverine struggles to uncover the roots of his inexplicably persistent five o’clock shadow.

But the best part is that the whole system is vector based, meaning that you can enlarge any element (like characters) as much as you’d like before exporting your comic to a fairly high rez PDF (that’s free from watermarks or any other stuff that could sour the experience).

Though, I must admit, I fear to see what your minds come up with in the comments. Please keep in mind that none of these superheroes are of age. [Marvel via GeekDad]

What Could Possible Go Wrong on a Skatekeyboard? [Art]

ASDFG and ZXCVB—those aren’t just QWERTY strings, they’re also potential sounds you’ll make when face-planting off the Skatekeyboard. [F.A.T. via MAKE]

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