A short video with two young chinese lads (Fonzie and Jack) in a train trying to keep cool. One of the boys is asking the other where they planning to go on vacation. As global warming had started, it didn't look as if there were many options available to him.
A Wired video of Artist Aaron Koblin's phalanx of 10,000 sheep, all drawn by random strangers through Amazon's labor distribution mechanism, The Mechanical Turk. Koblin's goal was to raise questions about the emergence of new labor systems in the information age. Each online worker was paid .02c to draw a ...
Albert Reyes is a well renowned visual artist based in Los Angeles. His discovery of spit art was a happy accident. He and a girlfriend were out walking, and when he spilled his drink on the sidewalk and it looked just like a chicken. Spit art is like graffiti without ...
Hows this for creating random art? In Chris Cerrito's Living Art class they put paint onto the bottom of vibrobots and let them run around a canvas to create a random painting. Extra paint was added during the session to make things more interesting.
Project Blinkenlights was created by the German Chaos Computer Club in 2001 as a celebration of its 20th birthday. A light installation in the Haus des Lehrers building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin transformed its front into a giant monochrome low-resolution computer screen. Some novel uses of the screen are ...
Media Mirror is an interactive video installation, in which over 200+ channels of live cable television are continuously arranged in real-time to form a mosaic representation of the person that stands in front of it. The installation was exhibited at the SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery and at Wired's NextFest ...
This is a wonderfully produced video of a group of dandelions that grow legs and then team up together to build a surreal tree. The video was created by Yves Geleyn and Mark Webster contributed the music and sound design.
Andrea Lira's quirky animation, Soñadora, shows a pair of pyjamas in bed as if they were occupied by a human being. There are a few seconds where the pyjamas are asleep and start breathing which are very clever. (This was apparently achieved by putting a paper bag under the shirt ...
This is a stop animation piece that Russell Wyner, Matt Bonaccorso, and Dan Rudolf created. It shows a couple of guys moving effortlessly through various scenes culminating in a Ninja style fight scene. Interesting and fun.
Since 1990 Theo Jansen has been occupied creating new forms of life. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. He makes skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat.