Photoshop in Real Life

The digital application, Photoshop, recreated in physical space.

via flavorwire

DJ Light

An enchanting light painting video that captures long exposures of light sources as they spin around a turntable.

Via Laughing Squid

iPad Light Painting

Following their “Making Future Magic” creative initiative, the London-based agency Dentsu and the design agency BERG developed this impressive method of using iPads to create moving typography. The short film features animated light shapes and words that travel playfully through the dark urban landscape.

Via The Huffington Post

Toyota 3D projection mapping

An installation of the new Toyota Auris with Hybrid Synergy Drive uses projection mapping to bring to life the technology within the Auris itself. Glue Isobar used seven projectors to project a CG version of the car onto the real car, allowing observers to walk around the car and experience the effect.

Thanks to Glue Isobar for sharing.

Physical Facebook Like Buttons

Teenagers visiting the Coca-Cola Village Amusement Park in Israel could Like locations throughout the park simply by waving their personal RFID bracelet in front of a physical Facebook Like button.

via All Facebook

Handmade Interactive: Cletus Clay

In an industry dominated by computer-generated imagery, interactive gaming company, Tuna, is swimming upstream with their latest effort, a stop motion animation game made entirely out of clay.

That’s right, every character and every set in the aptly titled, Cletus Clay, was first created by hand, then photographed, digitally enhanced and composited for the 3D space.

The game is not yet released, but from the demos it looks like Mario Brothers meets Wallace & Grommit. In other words – brilliant.

We’ve certainly come a long way from the CGI clay of Clay Fighter.

In an age of CGI everything, Cletus Clay is a reminder that you don’t have to abandon the old to embrace the new.

For more info, check out this interview with managing director, Alex Amsel, and claymation/stop-motion guru, Sarah Webb of the Cletus Clay dev team.

Tiger Projection Chases Cars

Flightphase has another cool interactive projection of a Tiger that syncs up with passing cars.

They also did Sniff

Programmable Water Sculpture from Aquascript

Aquascript is a computer system & software that synchronizes hundreds of valves expelling single water drops on demand which result in a freely definable bit-map display.

Explore more water sculptures here.

The Dreamcube: a living, interactive building

It’s partially made out of recycled cd cases. It has a huge LED array covering the exterior of the building. It is responsive to the size and sounds of the crowds that enter it. It is Shanghai’s Dreamcube at the Shanghai World Expo.

[Image Credit: Basil Childers. See more Dreamcube photos via the ESI Design Flickr.]

Built by ESI Design in collaboration with the Shanghai Corporate Community, this futuristic structure is recycled, multi-colored, and next generation.

(via Gizmodo)

Transpose: The Work of Aaron Koblin and Robert Hodgin

http://www.gaffta.org/2010/02/04/transpose/