From left to right: Büro Destruct Designer, Calcopac, Gravity Lander
The site “Theoriehaus” freshly released an interview with Lopetz from Büro Destruct. They talk about the three iPhone apps, Büro Destruct released within the last 12 months: Büro Destruct Designer, Calcopac, Gravity Lander. The interview is about the idea, history and design decisions of the apps. They also talk about game culture and the Apple app store. Go and read it here.
Light-installation artists “Mr. Beam” from the Netherlands made a nice installation for a living-room with two video-beamer. The room can switch its complete texture with one click. Very interesting to see, how the complete mood of the room changes at given time. (via)
There seems a nice product named “NoteSlate” coming up, made by a Czech startup. NoteSlate is a 1-bit drawing pad with a “retina-like” display. The feature-set is really reduces, strongly derived by simple pen and paper. The design is clean and simple and editions in various colors should be available. The price should be about 99 dollar and available from June 2011. The device also include mini USB, SD card reader, WiFi with sketch-sharing option and a 3.5mm jack for audio content, played by an internal mp3-player. (via)
Just discovered this cool video from DJ Yoda, mashup artists, making audio-visual shows, cut and paste style music with cut and paste style visuals. With a nice sense of humour. Hope you enjoy it! (via)
Ani-Gif 001: Brandon Jan Blommaert
Ani-gif is a new project from Daniel Rehn and Sarah Caluag, that looks really interesting. It will feature a collection of animated GIF’s, made by selected artists. The first work is freshly released, featuring a work from Brandon Jan Blommaert. Parallel to the online-exhibition there is also a biennal planned for 2012, that should be a “massive, real-world exhibition of GIFs”. Oh boy, that sound like a colorful, flickering wonderland.
I expect cool minimal and maximal works from ani-gif, somehow between glitch-aesthetics and experimental, online art-pioneers like for example dextro.
This toy brings everything on a new level: social interaction, music instruments, composition, sound games… In the end this is a real social game. (via Althausen, thx!)
Popularity award of Cologne’s Global Game Jam 2011 goes to Krystian Majewski (I suppose to say so). He made a charmin’ retro-gameboy-looking Julian Assange game. I’ll bet you know this one. Just head over and have a play! Read a bit more about it in Krystian’s blog. (He’s the Trauma guy btw…)
