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an amazing sculpture built entirely by robots but devised by a human named ‘frederico diaz’

…made from 420,000 black spheres made and assembled by robotics. the final sculpture will measure 20 feet by 50 feet and sit in the courtyard of the museum. the installation is precisely crafted from robotics, milling and assembling the entire sculpture sphere by sphere, completely void of any human interaction. diaz developed this process for building on his own using CAD software and manufacturing techniques along with pure data and algorithms based on particle physics. with this system each sculpture is completely untouched by human hands from concept to materialization.

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m / 06-10-2010 09:22 - tags: , ,  

natural plastic

i just had a look at the website of my friend mister faiyaz jafri, based in new york, who continues to refine his imaginary world, like this unusual hairy character…

m / 03-10-2010 09:49 - tags: , ,  

etched aluminium, imagination & jerrycans

…the idea was… to envision almost a terrorist attack on Los Angeles at night…

ridley scott’s ‘blade runner’ is about the only film in the ‘sci-fi’ genre i could bear to watch and this fascinating six minute documentary with the man responsible for the pyrotechnics and special FX sheds some light on the state of the art way back in the early eighties…

see mister ‘douglas trumbull’ telling all on the ‘how’ here, this is a re-blog of a piece i did for fontanel yesterday

m / 30-09-2010 20:27 - tags: , ,  

you decide

a rip-off or not? above: for the guardian/observer film season by wieden & kennedy, below on ‘vimeo’ by ‘pascal monaco’

»35mm« is a shortfilm about cinema itself. We picked 35 of our favorite movies and tried to simplifly them as far as possible. The outcome is a 2 minute journey through the history of film.
Take a close look and tell us if you’ve recognized them all!

Concept / Layout: Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco
Animation: Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco
Sound: Torsten Strer

m / 30-09-2010 13:07 - tags: , ,  

iron filings and flash

a stunning little film for the flash on the beach festival, it’s been done before: the combination of live action and flash, but not often this well…

(thanks to ‘fontanel’ for the tip)

m / 29-09-2010 11:46 - tags: , , ,