Looking Outwards
So this is pretty:
FLOE from Ozgun Kilic on Vimeo.
Honestly the reason I’m posting this one is because it’s really visually appealing, and a lot of what I’m sort of worried about as we get into working with robotic kinda stuff and 3D material is that I’m going to have trouble applying my usual aesthetic to it. The fact that artwork like this -which in the end, is very simple yet still elegant in its own way -is able to be made with arduino makes me a lot more comfortable with the idea of working with it.
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
Ok this one is really incredible though. I don’t know how to judge the levels of complexity in creating things like this, but I think what’s being done here is absolutely gorgeous. Pretty much it’s taking a slice of a tree and using the patterning of the rings to make music. It’s literally translating the entire life of a tree into music. Firstly, that’s just a fascinatingly cool idea. Second, the music actually sounds kinda good, which is pretty neat. It’s a kind of a cool way to make generative audio art (if not an environmentally unfriendly one, unfortunately). I just think this is super inspired and hauntingly pretty.
And now for my grand finale
Nikola Tesla in Sound and Light from Marco Tempest on Vimeo.
Real talk: watch this video, because beyond the cool sleight of hand combined with the projected animations, it’s about Nikola Tesla, who is easily one of the coolest scientific historical figures on the face of the earth. Seriously if you don’t think Tesla is cool then you don’t know enough about him. He tried to build a death ray. That should be enough to get you interested in him.
Anyway as far as I can tell, what’s going on with the arduino is I think it’s mapping separate animations to various parts of the pop-up book as the pages are turned. I have no idea how simple or complicated this is, but there’s a making-of video if anyone’s curious (http://createdigitalmotion.com/2012/06/pop-up-video-tesla-synesthetic-hallucination-and-augmented-book-science/)
Anyway, I think this is a fantastic combination of animation, 3D art, and stage magic. Rock on, dude.