DELETE!

Christoph Steinbrener & Rainer Dempf are creating a installation piece which will extend over Neubaugasse, a shopping strip in Vienna, in partnership with the Vienna Economic Chamber. The pair intend to cover "advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos" with a monochrome tone. This technique has been done before in manipulated photography, but it is the first time it will be translated to the real.

“Delete” will entail a very likely unique cooperation of all resident shopkeepers with a spectacular art project, a cooperation that has been made possible by the shopping street management unit of the Vienna Economic Chamber. For a period of two weeks, the entrepreneurs will renounce their identities to become part of a large-scale installation.

The exhibition will run over 6 – 20 June 2005, Neubaugasse, 1070 Vienna



- DELETE!

[Via. Art MoCo]

AT-AT Boom Box

Theres no information other than a series of photos on this thing, which is a pity cos its awesome!

- AT-AT Boombox

[Via. toi.protocol]

The Case for Fans

With people trying to squeeze that last MHz our of their machines, putting as many fans on your pc case as possible to cool it is always a step in the right direction. Now someone has taken it one step further and made a case entirely out of case fans.

- Casefancasefancasefancasefancase...

[Via. Engadget]

The Monster Engine

Dave Devries has turned children's drawings into painted pieces, illustrating monsters and superheroes, tapping the imaginations of the young.

- The Monster Engine

[Via. Boing Boing]

Pokia Mark II

The Pokia phone handset has been repackaged as the Hulger P* Phone and is available for all sorts of phones in all sorts of colours. I still want the bluetooth Pokia though!


- Hulger
- Pokia

[Via. Shiny Shiny]

Flo Control

Image recognition company Quantum Picture has created a innovative solution to a problem they were having with their cat door, namely the cat bringing in half dead animals to play with and other large animals coming in. Flo Control (after Flo the cat) is a cat door with image recognition properties which can tell whether its Flo at the door, and whether there is something in the cats mouth. It uses this information to then deny or allow access to the house.


- Flo Control

[Thanks Wazza]

Compositing Half Life into the real world

Someone know as Kris Mar has created high resolution renders of Half-life 2 models in real environments. Unfortunatly there is no page with thumbnails so youll just have to go through the directory.




- http://members.iinet.net.au/~kris.mar/

[Via. Wonderland]

Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure

The Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure is a fully poseable 5" figure wearing pyjamas and a ratty bathrobe, with a crazy look on her face and surrounded by cats.

Yes, you may be tempted to laugh at the Crazy Cat Lady. But, be warned, one day that Cat Lady may be yourself.

- Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure

[Via. toi.protocol]

Surprise!

Silvia Grimaldi has created a series of furniture designs and social experiments which cause surprise. She describes them as :-

An exploration of the use of surprising elements in design and the effect that surprises can have on emotional attachment and the memory of the experience.

(Un-)stable stool

When you sit on the stool its legs start splaying, and it feels like you're going to collapse, but after a second it stops and it is actually more functional because it's more stable.

on-edge lamp

The lamp is made of rubber but in the shape of a traditional glass table lamp. It turns on by sliding it off the edge of the table slightly; when it is fully on the table it is off.

moving cup

A person with a strong foreign accent starts reading a quote from a neurologist. The quote is long and boring, and after a minute people are not paying attention. That's when the cup moves a bit. Most of the people realise and stop paying attention to the reading and stare at the cup. The cup moves again several times, always increasing the viewer's interest and their mood.

- Surprise!

[Via. We Make Money Not Art]

A lack of updates

Some of you may have noticed that IorS? hasn't been updated as regularly as before. This is because I have gotten some freelance work that is eating up a lot of my time. I however will endeavour to make at least a couple of posts a week, so keep tuning in.

- Oliver