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MAKE Flickr photo pool member Shadowgolem writes – “Home made Panoramic Jig. Using 1/8 Alum. Just finished it this morning. It weighs 12.3 Oz with the Manfrotto CR2 plate attached. Cost about 35$ for all the parts (I went with stainess where I could) and I have enough Alum. left over to make a second one. Now to go try it out!” – Link.

Related:

• How to Build a Panoramic Tripod Head for $10 – Link.
• Panoramas Made Simple – Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 23, 2006, 11:45pm

Jory Squibb made his own 105 mile per gallon car – “Moonbeam is 79″ long, 52″ wide, and 56″ high. It is made from a 1987 Honda Elite 150 motorscooter in excellent condition and another 1984 Elite 125 parts bike. It weighs 386 pounds unloaded. It cost $2339 in materials and 1000 hours of labor. The front tires have a 40″ spacing and a 56″ wheelbase. The tires are 3.50-10 and 4.00-10 on the rear. The car goes 53 MPH on the level, but I find that speed worrysome.” [via] – Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 23, 2006, 5:06pm

Mark writes writes – “This webcam is a project that has been featured in Bright magazine in Holland and I also took it with me as one of the projects to present on Make’s Make Fest. It’s even mentioned in this weekend’s Make Podcast so it’s about time the whole wide world get’s a chance to see (and make) it!” – Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 23, 2006, 6:36pm

Jacob writes – “I’ve made my design for a nice coffee table available under a cc license for people to enjoy and hopefully build themselves. It comes with a sketchup file, measurements and basic instructions.” – Link.

Related coffee table projects:

• Coffee table desk – Link.
• Interactive coffee table – Link.
• HOW TO – Make an aquarium coffee table – Link.
• HOW TO – Make a Pinball Coffee Table – Link.
• DIY Glowing coffee table – Link.
• HOW TO – Build a tensegrity coffee table – Link.
• More! – Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 22, 2006, 8:53pm

Dave has a good project to do when you go camping, he writes – “Here’s a recent homebrew (beer-making) adventure I took with a friend. We brewed beer 500 yards from the source of the Metolius River in Oregon, drawing water for the brew directly from the river. Many photos ensued.” – Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 22, 2006, 9:54am

Here’s how to control a LED matrix using a parallel port (source and schematic included) – Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 22, 2006, 12:56pm

A Toyota Motor Corp. spokeswoman reportedly said,”It was a difficult step for robots.” - Link

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 20, 2006, 10:19am

Bill Beaty says “The author is making his own version of those 3D advertising signs popular in the late 1980s. (I saw many of these mounted on the walls of corridors at large airports.) They’re “lenticular” 3D which uses pinhole optics rather than cylinder lenses.” Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on September 20, 2006, 8:41pm

Xeni Jardin:

BoingBoing reader Tim says,

San Francisco artist Rio Yanez hosted “The Great Tortilla Conspiracy” at the De Young museum last week, inviting artists to come by and have their art silkscreened onto tortillas with edible inks.

Link to photos.

Originally from Boing Boing on September 24, 2006, 12:37am

This is my participation to on-line comunity art project
by The Residents

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Originally from Fast Moving Animals on September 23, 2006, 4:17am

Originally from Tinselman on September 18, 2006, 3:57pm

Another disc full-o-mutant pixels hoofs over the horizon, this next galloper into town being the ‘difficult second album’ follow-up to the acclaimed Reline DVD compilation.

Reline 1 contained a fantastic spectrum of lo-fi to hi-fi visual explorations, noodlings and generally provocative work. The sequel, co-curated and produced by Scott Pagano & Phoenix Perry, focusses much more on the expensive end of that spectrum, it still manages to provide quite a diversity of approaches, in line with the goal of showcasing “artists engaged in the creation of new visual forms deriving from experimental techniques and the re-orientation of high-end production processes.”

Clocking in with 64 minutes of abstract patterns and dense visual rhythms, black and white grains juxtaposed with saturated colours, and all manner of aesthetic invention, the disc veers from hypnotic to stroboscopic, turning a lounge room into something more akin to a nightclub or art gallery, than perhaps the party atmospherics provided by say a Resfest or music-video compilation. The niche being exploited here is a category blur of motion graphics, visual effects, sophisticated aesthetic manipulation and music video – at least where the audio and visual elements heavily interplay. The disc to that extent is an excellent collection of stunning visual experimentation, and those interested in any form of video manipulation will find much of it exquisite. Those same themes of visual play however, at times make the disc feel like a collection of clips in need of a stronger directorial hand – one which might better leverage the visual techniques in service of an overall idea, or overall momentum.

Highlights
e3 by Robert Seidel is a delicious hybrid of organic and inorganic, morphing and at times sharply mutating the soft curves of a 3 month gouache painting diary, into gorgeous screen pulses of mesmerising shapeshifting. The music by Michael Engelhardt of 4memusic in 5.1 surround sound matches the piece quite well. There’s a hazy, mirage-like otherworldliness to this piece, the muted colours and dirty textural noise in constant ebb and flow.

On first disc-viewing, Celluloid by Jude Greenaway of the Light Surgeons stood out for it’s relative warmth amongst the array of highly technical approaches. Coastal super 8 footage layered and processed, with the usual frame burns and jitters almost expected with film, washing delicately over the screen as fuzz-tones gently flare the speakers. It wasn’t until reading Jude’s bio on the DVD that I realised the significance of the time counter displayed XL on screen, ticking down to the song’s end, Jude describing how he wrote the track to commemorate the passing away of his grandmother.

Should curators include their own work on a disc? In Scott Pagano’s case it seems justified, his piece ‘from brown to green’, wonderfully visualising the intricate layered precision of a Twerk release on Mille Plateaux. The rhythmic architectural lines, and precision cut photography are reminiscent of the Designers Republic cityscape cut-outs for Warp records, but extend the concept with more layers of visual complexity, well considered transitions, and a graceful sense of pacing and editing.

Motomichi, aka VJ Moto, matches the demented music of Otto Von Schirach delightfully with the limited palette of red, black and white 2d graphics, effortlessly managing continuous visual surprise with his reworking and remixing of shapes. Cute and brutal!

Tronic studio & Q department present a human-machine hybrid future-present, in the form of visualising an extension to the nervous system as a mangle-tangle of flowing cables… an idea executed very well a few years ago in a music video for a glitch artist whose name frustratingly escapes at time of writing ( drop a line if you can help re-direct the tip of my tongue ). Still done very well here though, if a little tantalisingly short.

Even shorter, and equally tantalising for it – is laser graffiti writer by Tenzin Wangchuck, with soundtrack by Venetian Snares, a buddhist exploration of rapid light-flared grafitti on an urban wall.

About Microcinema
Starting your very own DVD label can now be as simple as declaring on a website that your label exists, and providing links for ways to acquire your expanding catalogue. And if the explosion of video sites online is any indication, there is a growing appetite for video, even that of a weird and experimental nature, which could be exploited by budding DVD label entrepreneurs. The Microcinema label – which ‘distributes moving image DVDs to specialty retail shops, museums and the online community’, has managed to rise above many embryonic DVD labels, skimming much video cream to provide access to a vast, vast range ( check their online catalogue ) of experimental video discs such as this Reline compilation.

More DVD details @ www.reline.net

Tags: reline2, microcinema

Originally by jean poole from { { { { – - Sky Noise — >>> on September 22, 2006, 2:14am

Originally from Smartspace on September 24, 2006, 12:10pm

freudwasafraud (2006, 6.1MB, 2:32 min)

‘There’s nothing like spending a little quality time with the
latest top ten questions about your potential state of mind.’
podcast from Charlene Rule aka scratch video. .

Originally by doron golan from DVblog on September 19, 2006, 11:00pm