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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Tinselman on September 18, 2006, 3:57pm

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

download video quicktime
download video flash

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

Sleighride (2006, 63MB, 4:30 min)

the church of the future (2006, 28.5MB, 2:39 min)

There’s a rather un-PC expression current in estuary English:
mental. Its semantic nuances don’t lend themselves to easy explanation.
It implies a kamikaze degree of chutzpah, often in a physical
context but also by metaphorical extension to any field of
behaviour & often expressing a kind of stunned admiration.
Well, watch the vids & deny if you can that John Michael Boling
+ Javier Alberto Morales ( collaborators on the visuals, JAM does the music on
sleighride) and owners of
www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
are totally fucking mental.

Originally by michael szpakowski from DVblog on September 18, 2006, 11:00pm

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

Goya’s Stories (2006, 26.4MB, 3:38 min)

We really wanted to post this collab (Doron, images; Michael, music) here
on DVblog but it seemed a bit indecent to write our own copy, so we asked
Edward Picot & Martha Deed:

Three Goya paintings - La Maja Desnuda (Nude Maja), El Rey Carlos
Cazador (King Carlos dressed as a hunter) and Autorretrato (Self-portrait) -
are brought to life by three present-day stand-ins. The beauty of the piece is
that none of the three people from the present day is an obvious
equivalent for the painting alongside which he or she is placed.
The least satisfactory of the three is the Maja. Goya’s nude is both
more blatantly sexual and less conventionally glamorous than the
equivalent we are given here. On the other hand the Carlos and
the Autorretrato - respectively a a wild-haired gaunt ceramicist
fingering a three-cornered pot, and an imposingly fat middle-aged
man half-naked at the seaside - do replicate the powerful combination
of individual character and human fallibility which comes across from
the Goya originals.
Edward

Golan and Szpakowski have constructed contemporary stories from Goya
paintings, using people whose resemblance to Goya’s subjects is
striking.
One need not be familiar with the masterworks themselves to enjoy the
whimsical - at times, poignant - real life portraits constructed from
the paintings. Szpakowski’s music intensifies the mood and detail of
Golan’s video. Like ekphrastic poetry, the video and music carry viewers into a
deeper exploration both of the paintings and the stories spun from
them.
Martha

Originally by editorial from DVblog on September 20, 2006, 11:00pm

SYZYGY (2001, 18.6MB, 3:51 min)

This tiny film gem was made by my brother, artist and graphic designer,
Noah Scalin. It was made as part of a Super 8 challenge.
Watch to the end and see rules of this game.
And then, I dare you to try this at home.

Originally by mica scalin from DVblog on September 22, 2006, 11:00pm

A last show i didn’t want to miss while in New York last week was Invisible Geographies: New Sound Art from Germany, an exhibition about the “physical” topography of sound at the Kitchen.

There was one of the most interesting sound works i’ve seen all over Europe this year: g-Pod, by Jens Brand, the mobile version of his G-Player (Global player) installation. Select one of the 400 satellites on the ipod menu and the device will analyse the topographical profile of the region that satellite is flying over at the moment and translate it into sound. Quite eerie and surprisingly addictive.

Jan-Peter Sonntag’s amazing installation was another hit. You enter a room bathed in beautiful green light. The long sound waves generated by the system can be slightly felt through your body but not heard. The green light references the “green ray” optical phenomena, a flash of light that sometimes appears on the ocean’s horizon at sunset.

A few months ago during Sonambiente, i had discovered another work by Sonntag: Modern Minimal Disco. You step onto a steel pedestal located right in the middle of the exhibition space and don headphones. The sub-frequency parts of the accellerating pulse, perceptible only as shock waves, are directly transmitted as vibrations via special headphones and pedestals to the listener. The listener on the pedestal is presented as the central focus point by phto shoot-like bright lights and a wall sized mirror. S/he becomes thus part of the work and as such is her/himself exhibited while observing the work (images.)

The Kitchen was featuring another work i’d have liked to experience (but had no time left for that). Christina Kubisch’s Electrical Walks customized for New York. The public is given a map of particular destinations in Chelsea and special magnetic headphones that reveal the sound of electrical currents that exist throughout the city but are normally imperceptible.

The headphones detect sound emitted by electro-magnetic fields generated by lighting systems, electronic security systems, power sources, wireless communication systems, surveillance cameras, mobile phones, etc. “The magnetic component of these fields is picked up by the sensor coils in the headphones,” explains the artist. “and, after amplification, these signals are made audible by little speaker systems in the headphones. So if there’s an electromagnetic field (say, an underground cable) and another one nearby (say, the headphones), the fields pick up each other. The sound jumps through the air from one to the other.”

Image of the walks found on Ryan Griffis‘ flickr images.

Invisible Geographies: New Sound Art from Germany runs until October 14, 2006, 512 West 19th Street, New York. My flickr images. Another review of the show by Lauren Cornell, via Networked_performance.

Originally from we make money not art on September 24, 2006, 2:52am

Freestyle SoundKit was another piece i liked at the Conflux festival. It’s the latest project by Jessica Thompson whom you might remember for other projects such as the Walking Machine and the Soundbike, a bike that uses motion-based generators to broadcast the sound of laughter as you pedal through the city.

Freestyle SoundKit generates and broadcasts electronic video game-like beats as you move around. You fix a yellow sticker with sensors under the sole of your shoes and each step you take is broadcast as a single beat. Each SoundKit contains a different beat to enable you to collaborate with other users to create a collaborative performance. It looked incredibly simple and the audience had a lot of fun with it. As Jessica said “Move around. Go freestyle but beware! Moves that look cool might not sound cool!” However, some testers (like the guy on the left picture) were quite good at sounding and looking cool.

My images on flickr.

Originally from we make money not art on September 21, 2006, 3:50pm