I/O Brush at MIT Media Lab

The i/O Brush is a product developed by the MIT Media Lab that is able to capture images via a camera inside the brush and then transfer the image to an interactive screen via infrared LED's.  The brush has been exhibited at Ars Electronica and various other festivals and exhibitions but has yet to be put into production.  

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-Evan

"Daughters of Job" series by Alison Malone

"The Daughters of Job" by Alison Malone is a series of photographs documenting daughter and granddaughters of Freemasons.  The project is ongoing.

-Evan

Arduino "Lily Pad" by Leah Buechley

The Lily Pad is a microcontroller board designed in collaboration between Leah Buechley and retailer SparkFun.  Microcontrollers such as the Lily Pad are designed to run with the computer program Arduino in order to make physical electronic components interact and be controlled by your computer.  The innovation that makes the Lily Pad so neat is it was designed for wearable projects (its washable and able to be sewn into fabrics) and its feminine design to attract girls to the world of physical computing.  Check out the Make Blog's article on Leah Buechley's DIY turn signal shirt.

-Evan

map jack car from Joe McKay

-Evan

Buffalo Wings store open*

Buffalo Wings classic apparel online store now open.  I am proud to say my father runs this label and I wear his coat design almost every day.  Please visit the site, (I helped design it) and see for yourself what one person can create if they have a vision. 

*Support independent business in America!

-Evan

SHIFT ELECTRONIC ARTS FESTIVAL

go if you can

-Simone

365 Days Project

Presented by Ubuweb and WMFU, the 365 Days Project is an initiative by these two to present a rare, obscure, or otherwise unique and unheard piece of sound everyday for one year.  The project has been completed twice already, once in 2003 and once in 2007.  The content is exhaustive and I have already spent hours combing the archives and only made it though a few week's worth of day's sounds.  Really, I present this project as a gateway to Ubuweb, an incredible poetic and artistic catalogue and resource, and to WMFU's Beware of the Blog, a progressive music blog that has opened my mind to new ideas in music and will open yours too.

A few of my favorite finds from the 365 project:

 The Death Killers-Junior John this is a six year old and his sister and probably some other adults as well playing an incredible lo-fi/punk song--can't stop playing it.

Jodie Foster--La vie c'est Chouette this is a young Jodie Foster singing a french pop song, (Life is Great!) . . . anyways go check it out for yourself.

-Evan

Rhizome

BLACK ON WHITE, GRAY ASCENDING by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES from Rhizome on Vimeo.

Rhizome, affiliated with the New Museum, is an online gallery/database/community for art that deals with technology. So far, it is the most comprehensive (it was started in 1996) and the most intriguing critical site dealing with this subject, from rhizome.org:

Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.

Check the blog for new developments in the realms of technology/web/digital art, view the online-only exhibitions, and utilize their daily Artbase additions to familiarize yourself with one of the most important art initiatives/movement of our generation.  

-Evan

-Evan

Export to World

Objects from second life transformed into real life objects constructed out of paper.

Read more and make your own here.

-Simone

New Club Internet #5

Curated by Harm Van Den Dorpel who is one of my favorite artists right now, the majority of the show is video and flash.  GO.

-Evan

On Purpose

Many amazing projects. Plus, check out the slider and enlarge the images to real size A4. Interesting to experience paper size we are used to hold in our hands on screen.

On Purpose: Design Concepts

-Simone

Way of Women

A project created by design firm Blanco for Italian fashion group Max Mara and their SportMax Code label. Way of Women centers focus on today's young creative female. They've decided to organize it around a range of interviews and special content created in correlation with the women they feature. I've always found a deep interest in projects like this and wish there were more like it around.

+Hopefully at some point we can get our very own Simone featured on the project's list of creative female minds..

W-O-W

-Jabar

Stars of The Lid

+More

Ballast

A certain type of film I've been waiting for. A visually stunning, accurate, and non stereotyped look into African American life. Specifically that of people living in Mississippi's delta region.

Opens in theaters today.

-Jabar

Gerhard Richter

Richter's 'new' approach to painting is highly interesting. He created work especially for the Serpentine Gallery in London.

"The seemingly arbitrary distribution of colours was generated using a specially developed computer programme and this renewed interest in using chance to define composition led the artist to develop the concept for 4900 colours."

info.

Also really cool how it inserts the information and copyright when taking a screenshot of the image.

-Simone

already famous?

Simone's work has now been featured on I Heart Photograph, Rhizome @ the New Museum,  among many others, Way to go!  

-Evan

The Political Picture

Binary mashup of first image search result for McCain & Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. infiltrated with his 'I Have a Dream' speech.

More to come.

-Simone

Vladimir Nikolic

My friend Jackson just alerted me to this video artist from Serbia, head to his site to see "Autoportraits" and "How to Become a Great Artist."  Some quirky/fun things mixed in with conceptual pieces relating directly to the gallery/exhibition and its place in contemporary art culture.

-Evan

Yuri Suzuki

Sound Chaser. Device that follows cut up records and plays the 'new' track.

Graffiti Radio. The connection between graffiti and pirate radio.

Look at his Design work here.

-Simone