Category Archives: Art & Design

Reactable vs. the Poly.Touch

I followed a few links from the comments on a post about the Poly.Touch found on NotCot today, and wound up looking at this instead: the Reactable. Watch it in action: Apparently it’s not exactly new (posted October 25, 2006!), but it’s new to me!
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“Animal Superpowers” Educational Toys for Kids. I want.

Via GOOD
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Music Animation Machine

Watching this visualization of a piano piece has me just a mesmerized as watching the internal workings of an old music box. It’s a demonstration of a piece of software called Music Animation Machine. It’s the same concept, but with a longer piece and the addition of color:
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Fun 3D Animations Done on Turntables

Pretty self explanatory, but very neat stuff. Found it here on Neatorama, where else?
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Today is the Day

Today is the Day.
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“Fully Flared” Intro Squence (Lakai Skate movie)

Apparently this is the intro sequence to a Lakai Footwear skate movie titled Fully Flared. Very well done. Be sure to stick around long enough to catch the finale: EDIT: Lakai had the video taken down. I guess they hate free publicity? DailyMotion still has it up though. This just in: Saw on some other posts that [...]
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“Time Piece”, a Jim Henson short (1965)

Here’s a fun little nine minute short film from Jim Henson. From the IMDB: Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this nine-minute, experimental film, which was written, directed, and produced by Jim Henson-and starred Jim Henson! Screened for the first [...]
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Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind: Dots Ad

Here’s an ingenious ad for the Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind: A quick bit of googling found a clever print ad too.
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Something Planned: Think Beauty

Here’s a cool little piece using orange safety tape and a chain link fence from Something Planned (direct link – who still uses frames?!) complete with time-lapse video of its creation. Via NOTCOT.
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Long Exposure Vintage Videogame Photos

Rosemarie Fiore took these long-exposure photos of old Atari games. From her website: These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one [...]
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