EK BLOG!

Hello All,

Just to let you know that this blog is still active! Please use this blog as a community to help drive your projects in EK. Post anything that you think will help your fellow EKers, anything you find interesting/funny/exciting/weird or maybe some of your own work you would like people to discuss and critique!

If you need any in-house blog advice the administrative baton has been passed on to Jihui! She has the power to add you as an author/editor/administrator!

Good luck in your projects!!!

Mark

Dan Hill: New Soft City.

this is worth a watch – just run it in the background whilst you are working!

 

non-newtonian fluid in speaker!

skip to 2.00 to watch the action!

I wonder if you played the same music would achieve the same form. by playing different levels of frequencies can you control this?! which means the role of the builder is now a musician! you have to design the sound to achieve the construction…! i might have to try this one day!

MICROSOFT XBOX – 3D projections

“Details of an immersive video games display system that projects images of the title’s environment around a player’s room have been revealed in a US patent belonging to Microsoft.”

“Even when focused on the display, the user may perceive architectural and decorative feature of the room the display is in… such features are typically out of context with respect to the displayed image, muting the entertainment potential.”

The firm says the solution is to beam images all over the room so that the gamer’s peripheral vision does not conflict with what they seen on the main screen.

WEBS – for spider kee.

“Tape Melbourne, took eight days to complete, with three artists and fifteen volunteers working nine hours every day. The exhibit used thirty kilometers of tape to build, with more tape to repair and fix the structure on a nightly basis.”

KEE! LETS BUY SOME TAPE AND MAKE ONE!

THE MOLE MAN OF HACKNEY!

Rune – i was reading this and thought of you!

“Lyttle—who once quipped that “tunneling is something that should be talked about without panicking”—became internationally known for the expansive network of tunnels he dug under his East London house. The tunnels eventually became so numerous that the sidewalk in front of his house collapsed, neighbors began to joke that Lyttle might soon “come tunnelling up through the kitchen floor,” and, as a surveyor ominously relayed to an English court, “there is movement in the ground.””

http://bldgblog.blogspot.dk/2012/06/buy-underground-kingdom.html

 

 

and here is a nice poster showing tunnel digging as a hobby! We should start digging – by the end of next year I will be able to walk home… to London!

Topographic Projections: Jim Sanborn

just a few images of these MASSIVE light projections on the landscape as a continuation of today’s meeting on land-art and non-site…

These are long exposures of the projection – so the full scheme can only be seen in photographs and they can only be captured during the night…

 

“These images were produced by direct, large format, light projection.  The projector, powered by a mobile generator, was moved from site to site.  All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures.  On moonless nights, the landscape was lit with searchlights.  The landforms themselves are quite large, requiring the projector and camera to be, on average, 1/2 mile away from the subject landscape.”

a quiet square where nothing happens…

for those working with quiet squares/plazas in Granada – this is a solution to drastically change the atmosphere… all with the push of a single button.

Years: Bartholomäus Traubeck

…something you may find interesting…

A nice soundtrack for you Sunday evening! The record player plays the information found in the trees year rings… ! !

 

They even tried to scratch the tree-nyl! (tree + vinyl!)

 

“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 foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.”

SMART WINDOW: SAMSUNG (sorry for the sales man)

very interesting… look at 1:17 – it can control the amount of light into the room (even if is a bit tasteless!!!!)

this is a window with tv/internet/social networking/lighting control and a view… !