Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Minimal Record Player

ultra-minimalist gramophone is made of just paper, wood, and metal and it’s operated by hand. What a great "invention" ... this young Ladys webpage is definitely worth a look - livia-ritthaler gramophone [vsw id="iQikPNOPSUc" source="youtube" width="521" height="221"

Bartholomäus Traubeck – YEARS

A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011. Modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer, approx. 90x50x50 cm. What a beautiful idea! www.traubeck.com A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The ...

this is made by hand

I was so amazed after watching this Videos... The Knife Maker reminds me of myself. Before you can think about making Art you have to know what you do. The Videos from Keith “keef” Ehrlich are a piece of Art by themselves. Just wonderful. A project from the Bureau of Common Goods, Made by Hand was created out of the belief that the things we collect, consume, use, and share are part of who we are as individuals. For example, the food that we eat says something about each of us, as do the tools we use and the chairs we rest on. Objects ...

For a Deaf Artist, The Process of Sound Art, Transformed:

The Selby Profiles Deaf Performance Artist Sun Kim's Sonic Experiments Cult photographer and filmmaker Todd Selby's latest short is a revealing portrait of performance artist Christine Sun Kim. Deaf from birth, Kim turned to using sound as a medium during an artist residency in Berlin in 2008, and has since developed a practice of lo-fi experimentation that aims to re-appropriate sound by translating it into movement and vision. "It's a lot more interesting to explore a medium that I don't have direct access to and yet has the most direct ...

John Jay Talks about Creativity

John Jay of Wieden + Kennedy was recently named one of the most creative business people in 2011 by Fast Company. His position as W+K’s executive creative director takes him between all of the W+K offices in an effort to breed those cultures into the main headquarters in Portland. In this video John Jay talks about his creative process. He takes a step back and approaches his interpretation of process from a wise view. What I’ve drawn mostly from this is that it’s about conversation. Most importantly it’s about listening to what ...

Verner Panton Visiona & Interiors of Mid-Century Modern

time lap videos

These incredible time lapse videos were shot by Dustin Farrell. I let them speak for

teenageengineering

God, i wanna be a child again... smile - this is mine, soon The Portable Wonder from Teenage Engineering. A hybrid digital synthesizer and MIDI controller with enough features to question if this thing is even real. Playing at maximum volume you can travel over the Atlantic ocean two ways constantly making music on your OP-1 before it runs out of power. And at the same time have over 2 years of stand by

ARC & Monome

Here’s a video of the Arc and Monome in action: a micro-looper. eight samplers, corresponding to columns of the grid. record by holding second-from-bottom key. focus arc to column by pushing bottom key. left knob is loop selection. turn to move selection, push-turn to resize selection. right knob is volume. turning changes velocity, not position, so a tremelo effect is easily achieved. pushing down stops the spin, like a turntable. third key up is mute/unmute. top rows transpose up/down by octaves. top rows meter sound ...

coffee break

I'm in a long coffee break in the moment . In order to properly enjoy coffee, it takes time.