Fancy living inside a Dali painting? With this amazing warping wallpaper from Surrealien you can. Using technology that applies a grid to warp around the elements in your room they can produce this mind blowing effect. Just make sure you don’t eat any mushrooms before entering!
So this is quite a good idea, Blog Action Day invites blogs worldwide to unite and blog about one important issue on October 15th, 2007. I think this is a great way to raise the profile of world issues and the reach of this could be phenomenal. With some big names in the blog world like lifehacker among others (it was a big damned list and I couldn’t be bothered scanning it all to find another big name blog, but they’re in there!) this has the potential to be very big. Needless to say this blog will be participating, and if any of you guys have blogs then it’d be cool if you did too!
The Art of DeTouch is an application built in proce55ing that reveals the extent of image re-touching that is applied to images before you see them on the magazine shelf. Using a before and after threshold slider, it’s amazing (and sometimes shocking) to see the amount of work that goes into making these images ‘print ready’.
Open Source Food is a great idea, a social network for food lovers. Contained within the site are a myriad of interesting recipes by both professional chefs and amateurs alike. The quality of the photography really stands out and once you have created a profile you can keep track of your favourites and even create entire menus. Brilliant!
Hektor is a graffiti machine! No, I mean quite literally, Hektor, is a portable spray-paintoutput device for laptop computers. Created by Jürg Lehni and Uli Franke, Hektor has performed for many art galleries and even for I.D. magazine.
Normal Design is the studio of Ross McBride a former graphic designer turned product designer who produces some out of this world timepieces. There are some very clever designs, some of which look as if they are straight out of a Dali painting.
Packet Garden analyses your network traffic and creates a virtual world for you to explore. As it’s name suggests, by analyzing the packets sent and received by your computer as you surf the Internet, a unique garden is created. You can download it for free from the official site.
In a similar vein to our previous posts on large scale art/tech (Graffiti Research Lab & Textual Healing) - Project Blinkenlights is a new take, actually using the buildings as a light source instead of simply projecting images onto them. These images weren’t static either, as members of the Chaos Computer Club (the group behind Project Blinkenlights) and members of the general public were able to play games of pong on a huge scale!
Wow! The GRL just keep on rocking. Dedicated to arming graffiti artists with the latest technology, the above image shows the GRL laser-tag system that has just been unveiled. Such an amazing way to communicate.
