Posts tagged Technology

SuperMario Sleeping (With Butterflies), 1997 an Art Machinima movie by Miltos Manetas. It is made with SuperMario for Nintendo 64 and it was first shown at the exhibition Fatto in Italia ,(Made in Italy), at the ICA, in London, 1997. The artist talks with Mathias Jansson guest arts writer on the Art21 blog in the article: Artistic Machinima and Britney Spears’s Pink Mansion. Manetas discusses Machinima, his influences and using Michael Jackson and Britney Spears in his pieces.

Volkswagen Parking Lot Towers at Autostadt - “Spanning approximately 16 stories, two silos are used as a kind of temporary vertical parking lot  at Volkswagen’s production facility and autostadt visitor attraction in Wolfsburg, Germany. The 48-meter tall silos are composed of glass and galvanized steel, illuminated by night. A conveyor belt system transports finished cars directly from the adjacent manufacturing plant to the towers’ basement.”

Volkswagen Parking Lot Towers at Autostadt - “Spanning approximately 16 stories, two silos are used as a kind of temporary vertical parking lot  at Volkswagen’s production facility and autostadt visitor attraction in Wolfsburg, Germany. The 48-meter tall silos are composed of glass and galvanized steel, illuminated by night. A conveyor belt system transports finished cars directly from the adjacent manufacturing plant to the towers’ basement.”

The Lift in Autostadt From The Top of The Glass Tower

Love the cover of the new Aram Bartholl book. Edited by Domenicio Quaranta, Design by Manuel Bürger. With essays by: Josephine Bosma, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jon Cates, Lindsay Howard, Alessandro Ludovico, Evan Roth, Bruce Sterling, Brad Troemel

Love the cover of the new Aram Bartholl book. Edited by Domenicio Quaranta, Design by Manuel Bürger. With essays by: Josephine Bosma, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jon Cates, Lindsay Howard, Alessandro Ludovico, Evan Roth, Bruce Sterling, Brad Troemel

The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce - “America is today in the midst of a great technological revolution. With the advent of the silicon chip, information processing, communications, and the national economy have been strikingly altered. The new technology is changing how we live, how we work, how we think. The revolution didn’t just happen; it was engineered by a small number of people, principally Middle Americans, whose horizons were as unlimited as the Iowa sky. collectively, they engineered Tomorrow. Foremost among them is Robert Noyce.” *This is a link to the article Tom Wolfe wrote in the December 1983 Esquire about Robert Noyce, Shockley Labs, Fairchild, the semiconductor industry and the early history of Silicon Valley before it was called Silicon Valley.

The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce - “America is today in the midst of a great technological revolution. With the advent of the silicon chip, information processing, communications, and the national economy have been strikingly altered. The new technology is changing how we live, how we work, how we think. The revolution didn’t just happen; it was engineered by a small number of people, principally Middle Americans, whose horizons were as unlimited as the Iowa sky. collectively, they engineered Tomorrow. Foremost among them is Robert Noyce.”

*This is a link to the article Tom Wolfe wrote in the December 1983 Esquire about Robert Noyce, Shockley Labs, Fairchild, the semiconductor industry and the early history of Silicon Valley before it was called Silicon Valley.

Swedish Programmer Hans Andersson‘s Time Twister Lego Clock - While we’re on the Lego kick, to say nothing of the Times Lego Logo for T-Magazine.

My Mushroom Burial Suit, Jae Rhim Lee's TED Talk

Using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms the artist presents a powerful provocation. Yes, this just might be the strangest TEDTalk you’ll ever see, artist Jae Rhim Lee asks if we can commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death?

Edison Beats on the Streets - Ep01, and Ep02, using the Monome.

Dave Forbes: LED TV Coat - Created by Arizona-based david forbes, the ‘LED TV coat’ is a wearable lab coat outfitted with LED panels, capable of playing video and images from an iPod or DVD player. Built for wear at the burning man festival, the device is powered by a 12V battery, offering a charge time of about an hour for the 1000-LED design. The colour saturation of the 160x120 -resolution image can be adjusted via controls along the coat’s shoulders.

new-aesthetic: The MareNostrum supercomputer housed in the deconsecrated Chapel Torre Girona at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. From Simon Norfolk’s photographs of Supercomputers. (Via Tom A)

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The MareNostrum supercomputer housed in the deconsecrated Chapel Torre Girona at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

From Simon Norfolk’s photographs of Supercomputers. (Via Tom A)

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Toirettsu (ト イレッツ) - Sega’s target practice game where patrons pee on a variety of sensors in a urinal, commercial release in Japan only in November, and will cost establishments ¥140,000 (~$1745) for the hardware, and ¥10,000 (~$125) for each game mode.

I Have Seen the Future and I Am Opposed

“My intelligence is in the cloud. My life is in the cloud. My friends, photographs, ideas and mail. My life. My mind. Take away my cloud and I am left mindless.” Don Norman writing for Core 77”

Finally Google Voice For iPhones

“It’s nice. It’s much better than the Web-based fakeout app I wrote about in that January blog post. It’s basically a replacement for your iPhone’s phone app, complete with address book and a Favorites list…And if you send texts from this app, your incoming and outgoing text messages are free.”

Early Soviet iPad for Troika, or Wonderful Scans From a 1962 Book of Tech Predictions for 1975 - From Boing Boing: “Here’s Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom’s scans from Arnold B. Barach’s 1962 book, 1975 and the Changes to Come. In addition to the usual hopes for space colonies and some prescient looks at things like pacemakers, there’s also a healthy dose of wonderfully goofy, super-modernist TV designs and the ever-popular Kitchen of the Future (shown here).

Early Soviet iPad for Troika, or Wonderful Scans From a 1962 Book of Tech Predictions for 1975 - From Boing Boing: “Here’s Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom’s scans from Arnold B. Barach’s 1962 book, 1975 and the Changes to Come. In addition to the usual hopes for space colonies and some prescient looks at things like pacemakers, there’s also a healthy dose of wonderfully goofy, super-modernist TV designs and the ever-popular Kitchen of the Future (shown here).

Turn an iPod into an iPhone

“For a little $1 iPhone app… Line2 turns the iPhone into a dual-mode phone. That is, it can make and receive calls either using the AT&T airwaves as usual, or — now this is the best part — over the Internet. Any time you’re in a wireless hot spot…also runs on the iPod Touch.”