The LEDs of the Nocturne installation use less energy than a domestic dishwasher, yet they light the length of the Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge with 16.5 million colours; makes me think the Adobe HQ-mounted San José Semaphore could stand a splash of chroma.
Lichtfaktor paints with light, in the spirit of Picasso. Click through for some witty, beautiful stuff. [Via] It inspires me to fool around with Photoshop’s new paint-on-video features, combined with the various Lighten/Dodge/Add blend modes. On a related note, see previous: Pikapika lightning doodle project; Graffiti Research Labs’ giant laser.
Tripping the light envelope: Japanese artist Kohei Nawa’s PixCell deer is festooned with glass beads, giving it a second skin. More objects in the series are here.
Frank Buchwald has designed a pretty foxy lamp (with kind of a wormy-Matrix-sentinel-thing happening). [Via]
rAndom international’s light printing machine crawls the wall, leaving an impermanent trace.
CNET says that paper-thin LEDs are coming soon, opening all kinds of new possibilities.
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The Diesel fashion show is amazing.
You are an endless source of cool links of all kinds of great art that I would have never thought of. [I wouldn’t thought of it either, which is part of why I find this stuff inspiring. Now that I’m in a different line of work than design, I can table my natural competitive/inferiority thing and just enjoy others’ creations. –J.]
The Diesel fashion show is amazing.
You are an endless source of cool links of all kinds of great art that I would have never thought of.
[I wouldn’t thought of it either, which is part of why I find this stuff inspiring. Now that I’m in a different line of work than design, I can table my natural competitive/inferiority thing and just enjoy others’ creations. –J.]
Just wanted to drop few lines, great blog – always something very interesting here.
Cheers from Denmark.
Great links! I bet that Diesel runway show had more people checking out the visual effects, rather than the new clothing line.