DUALITY - Atlantic City Sound and Light Show - July 4th from Moment Factory on Vimeo.
The show premiered on July 4th. Here are the reactions! ** New permanent sound and light show on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Multiple HD projections, surround sound, theatrical lighting and the latest architectural video mapping technologies will bring Boardwalk Hall’s historic façade to life every night all season long.
A trip to see the sky lanterns in Pingxi -- truly a unique Taiwan experience.
The music is from a Heavenly Melody album: "Suzanne plays Heavenly Melody" favorites on Erhu (the Chinese erhu is that 2-stringed, violin-like instrument you are hearing) The title of the song is 平安夜裡真平安 (Silent Night, Peaceful Night). LINK: Youtube
Subcarpati - Am crescut pe la Romana from z00x on Vimeo.
The first two parts of the video show the impact dynamic of 30 microliters water
droplet at different impact velocity. At low impact velocity of 1.03 m/s, the water droplet deforms upon impact and eventually bounces off completely of the surface of the array. At higher impact velocity of 2.21 m/s, the droplet breaks up into many smaller droplets and eventually bounces off completely of the surface of the array.
All parts of the video were captured by high speed camera operated at
various frame rates. The droplet was illuminated from behind with a diffuse
halogen light. The droplet was dropped on the surface by at-tipped needle
and the volume of the droplet was controlled precisely by syringe pump.
This work was supported by The Charyk Foundation and The Fletcher Jones Foundation.
More on this at the LINK: Youtube
3D projection with coordinated light on a 3D surface by SUPERBIEN. LINK: Youtube
LEDs are the way to use tons and tons of lights and still use very little electricity. Artists, sculptors, and architects use LEDs to create stunning light displays, like this one found at the Italian Light Sculpture Festival in Nanjing, China. See more pictures from the festival and other LED art projects at WebEcoist. Link -Via: Rue the Day, Via: Neatorama
Artist Robert Mathy created “Light Sensitive Fingertips” — a musical instrument that has light sensitive phototransistors in the tips of the fingers. It’s played by moving the sensors over light sources of varying intensity:
Light, emitted by the displays of activated mobile phones, functions as the origin of the sounds. As each mobile phone’s display generates a different light frequency, each results in an audio signal with a different pitch. In addition, other electronic devices, such as flashing bicycle lights, can be used to generate rhythmic tones.
Link, Via: GearFuse | Video | Photo: Robert Mathy, Via: Neatorama
This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.
They use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, they play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation. LINK: Vimeo, Via: Walyou
"QUOTE" When this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious sh!t!
Unlike it's predecessor this one has three axes. It was very challenging to build, with a total of 9 slip-contacts, not including the motors. I made it from scrap I had laying around and it took about a week to build. I use standard DC-motors controlled with pulse width modulation, the LEDs are controlled with a modified bike light with adjustable frequency. I'm very sorry about the quality, my camera can't keep up and it makes a lot of flicker that isn't really there, and the LEDs oversaturate the image. LINK: Youtube
"Lighthouse"
Around here, the next brightest light to the sun would be the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse. Courtesy of a Fresnel lens and about 5.5 million candles, the light can be seen for 28 nautical miles. LINK: Gizmodo
The Night Light Table is a collaboration between designers Charlie Crowther-Smith and Richard Bannister. They wanted to design something that emitted an ambient glow that also functioned as a piece of furniture. LINK: The Presurfer
"Butterflies. Photo: TigTab [Flickr]"
Flickr artist TigTab uses light stencil to create the fantastic effects seen above. Light Graffiti
Links: TigTab Light Stencil Photostream at Flickr | Tutorial on how to make your own by tdub303 – Via: Super Punch, Via: Neatorama
In 1080p, enjoy the unusual visual style in this adaptation of the ground-breaking "Science on a Sphere" production, including depictions of Earth. From NASA and NOAA, with additional images from ESA Hubble.
We perceive light--we see it—but what we see and what it means are not the same. Without context, detail means nothing.
Oh, there are so many factors at play here: what wavelengths of light can we see, how well can our brains take what we see and turn it into something we understand?
And also, how do we compare ourselves to the thing we're observing? What tools do we use to help us capture information? How do we turn light into data, data into pixels, pixels into meaning? Start with a planet. LINK: Youtube
Tom Padula's solar-powered electric fireflies are just one example of the kind of awesome homebrew tchotchke coming to the San Francisco Maker Faire this weekend. These things sound great: tinsy, solar-charged intermittent garden-blinkers that give you the fireflies you always wanted.
"The slightest breeze moves them around, and the motion combined with the light is mesmerizing," says Padula, who will be selling his digital lightning bugs for $10 apiece at the fifth annual Maker Faire Bay Area, which will be held this coming Saturday and Sunday, May 22 and 23, in San Mateo, California. The annual event, put on by O'Reilly Media, is a celebration of DIY culture, arts and crafts, and will likely draw more than 70,000 attendees, organizers say.
Padula's fireflies weigh 0.2 ounces (7 grams) and are attached to an 18-inch monofilament line. Six solar panels charge NiMH batteries, and a microcontroller drives the LED. The units are dipped in epoxy for weather resistance.
"All the real work happens in the code, from determining ambient light level, to controlling the LED intensity and keeping track of how long the pattern has been active so as to turn off after two hours, like real fireflies do," says Padula.
Maker Faire Preview: Electronic Fireflies to Light Up Your Backyard, Via: Boingboing
Denis Smith is a photographer who makes light graffiti — time lapse photography that allows artists to insert lights into spaces so that they appear to be free-floating. Smith has created a set of images depicting the travels of a ball of light through a darkened world.
Link, Via: DudeCraft, Via: Neatorama
The proper term is Crepuscular Rays and Environmental Graffiti has a great collection of photos that have perfectly captured these beams of light.
Link, Image by Mila Zinkova, Via: Neatorama
Anke Weiss, a talented Dutch artist, has designed a series of beautiful lights made from recycled food and drink packaging. Enjoy!
Packaging lights show the transformation of a mass-product into a unique item. The packaging survives the point where it usually turns into garbage and becomes a product itself. LINK
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