Author: jkordy

NYC 1905

Love love old stuff, this is 1905 nyc, from the top of
the times building in times square no less.

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Synchronized Dancing Robots

Just look at those amazing dancing robots! Dancing to Ravel’s Bolero no less.

<mini-rant> Is this the future of “live” performance? At first it’s amazing to watch all of these robots move in a synchronized fashion and I’m sure the effect is multiplied the more robots you would add, can you imagine a sea of thousands of them?

But after a while it becomes tedious to watch a machine go through the motions. They never tire, there is no discipline or hours of training and practice involved. As a performance I think it’s an interesting novelty but it lacks precisely the exact elements that make watching a live person perform so fascinating. I’m not saying robots have no future in performance but I don’t think this is it.</mini-rant>

Quote

If you are going to have less things they have to be great things.

— John Maeda

Art is Research

In this video from the 2010 PSFK conference, Zach Lieberman talks about how art is a type of creative research, in his case the tech oriented interactive art is like a glimpse into our tech infused future. Zach does amazing things with technology and I agree with him that art, all art, is an exploration and in fact research into new possibilities.

This is not a sculpture…

This is actually a street performer in Los Angeles, the mysterious Mirror Man. I think this is a fantastic idea. I think as a static sculpture it would be an arresting image and bring up metaphysical contemplation, but the added layer of it being a live performer really brings it up another level. Would love to experience this in person.

Unfortunately I can’t find any more info about this artist/performer, but you can check out a lot more images of this scene at SiLver sKY’s flickr photostream where I found this.

Peter Baldes

“Hypertemporality Animations are a series of gif files layed out in a table and due to network conditions, browser idiosyncrasies, and client behavior act dynamically. try reloading them. try different browsers”

You gotta click through to the animated examples here and here. These are just awesome, the perfect blend of simplicity combined with knowing and understanding your medium. Exploring the internet and subtly getting into the crevices of how it functions, all with the humble animated gif the very thing that was there in the beginning. And who doesn’t love an animated gif?

(via today and tomorrow)