Here’s some awesome animated street art from UK artist INSA.
These start out as street art paintings, then the artist photographs them at various stages and compiles them into a GIF so that when viewed online they become a moving image! For the full experience, check them out here.
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In this interactive musical installation laser pointers trigger sounds and visuals projected onto the interior of a Czech chapel.
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This Exquisite Forest is a collaborative storytelling tool. Inspired by the Surrealist drawing game of “exquisite corpse,” the site allows anyone to start an animation tree by drawing a series of short frames — a “seed” — or add on to an existing tree. The project, from Google’s Data Arts team, is also temporarily installed in the Tate Modern in London.
Check out some popular trees here and here and here.
People in LA recently gathered to create a giant, crowd-sourced Jumbotron with their iPads. Why? Why not?
Jumboltron reminds us of this fun project from MIT that used different kinds of devices to forge one big viewing screen:
Touch this silver cube for a weather forecast. The Cryoscope uses a simple system with an Arduino controller to adjust heat or coolness levels to represent the temperature outside. Just enter your zip code in a webapp and feel tomorrow’s air temperature!
Some folks at MIT hacked a building to play Tetris on the side of it.
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5th Ave Frogger is a hacked version of Frogger pulling in real-time 5th Ave traffic as game data. If you’re in New York this weekend, you can play.
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Disney Research presents Touché, demonstrating that touch interactions don’t have to be limited to an on/off detection on glass, but rather any type of touch on any type of surface.
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Hold the beer and check out BBDO Germany’s Smart eBall installation for the third generation Smart car.
Cars play pong against each other to showcase the road responsiveness of this next gen version of the car.
Prototype of a digital rug that changes shapes as you walk over it.
Contributed by Ellie Hardy