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.
via Laughing Squid
The sleek application ARART uses augmented reality to amplify classic artwork.
via Design Boom
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.
This project illuminates the flow of invisible wifi networks. A wifi measuring rod lights up depending on the strength of wifi signals, and long-exposure photographs capture the light’s as the rod moves through space.
Stamen’s use of watercolor lends an calming, handmade quality to these data-driven maps of San Francisco. Zoom in for more detail, or order a print for your home!
A beautiful visualization of surface wind patterns over the U.S.: http://hint.fm/wind/
Cinemagrams are the new GIFs — get them before a creative asks you about them!
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim
Roof-mounted sensors translate light, rain, wind and thunder inputs to generate an impromptu musical score.
Drawing its sounds directly from the elements, no day’s synthesizer-style music is the same — who knew lightning could sound like reverb and that moonlight purrs?
Another take on a musical house from the artist Swoon: http://kck.st/lDCdCT
Via Laughing Squid
Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.
via laughing squid
Attention all creative directors who never bothered to learn Photoshop: here’s an amazing new Wacom tool that transforms your sketches into digital files.
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Via Discovery News