Shot and hand-colored - frame by frame - at the end of the 19th Century. Still captivating today, but just imagine what it must have been like to … [Read more...]
Nearness: interacting without touching
Nearness explores interacting without touching. More here and here. … [Read more...]
Touchable Holography
Book of Genesis illustrated by R. Crumb
Graffiti Taxonomy: AEIOU – Paris, 2009 (Ni9e Factory)
Ni9e Factory Graffiti Taxonomy: AEIOU - Paris, 2009 - All characters taken from tags photographed in Paris, April 2009. Official poster for Fondation … [Read more...]
LIVE FOREVER – The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition
Intelligent, critical, to the point. LIVE FOREVER - The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition … [Read more...]
David Byrne: A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City
"Size A city can't be too small. Size guarantees anonymity. (...) Density If a city doesn't have sufficient density, as in L.A., then strange … [Read more...]
PIG 05049 by Christien Meindertsma
Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: … [Read more...]
Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Martin?
Letters between Malcolm McLaren and Martin Margiela, with a portfolio styled by Margiela (himself!). … [Read more...]
Electronics in The World of Tomorrow
Erkki Kurenniemi is considered a prophet of artificial-intelligence research, headband videos and artificial reality, often being 10-40 years ahead of … [Read more...]
The Sci-fi Corridors
In praise of one of the most prominent architectural elements in every Sci-Fi movie: the corridor. … [Read more...]
On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces, by Ben Fry
“On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces“, 2009 by Ben Fry. Via: VVORK … [Read more...]
Wim Delvoye – Cloaca Factory
Belgian artist Wim Delvoye created a defecating machine. … [Read more...]
IKEA Catalog anno 1965
"My parents like to keep the annual IKEA catalogs – it says it is the most printed book (edit: printed publication) after the bible. Yesterday my mum … [Read more...]
Motoi Yamamoto
Motoi Yamamoto works with salt. … [Read more...]
Vol Libre by Loren Carpenter
Loren Carpenter: "I made this film in 1979-80 to accompany a SIGGRAPH paper on how to synthesize fractal geometry with a computer. It is the world's … [Read more...]
Drei Klavierstücke op. 11, played by YouTube cats, by Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel says: "Recently I took a few months of my free time and decided to recreate Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka … [Read more...]
Retro-Futurism Archives
In November 1996, Apple announced it would open a chain of cafés. Videoconferencing and on-demand movies and music were among the touted attractions, … [Read more...]
Gary Settles, photographer
Gary takes the most remarkable Schlieren photographs and movies in the world. He uses his refined techniques to understand everything from how a dog's … [Read more...]
Pixel City – Procedurally generated city
This is a demonstration of a program to generate and fly through a dynamically generated city. You can read the step-by-step of how it was made at … [Read more...]
Steve Albini: Don’t Call Me Producer
Roc-Doc about Indie recording engineer and minimalist rock legend Mr. Steven Albini. … [Read more...]
Steve Albini on “Fake Italian”
Steve Albini explains "Fake Italian" and the many different ways to use the language. This interview was filmed for the upcoming documentary on … [Read more...]
LittleBits of Electronics
LittleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex … [Read more...]
Wolfram Alpha
Today's Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You … [Read more...]
People in Order
By Lenka Clayton and James Price (Part of www.portablefilmfestival.com). People in Order's Age is part of a series of short films that assembles … [Read more...]
