RAINFOREST IV - DAVID TUDOR - “a collaborative environmental work, spatially mixing the live sounds of suspended sculptures and found objects, with their transformed reflections in an audio system. “
3rd & 4th of July 2009 - from 2pm to 23pm - Peckham, London
Performers include our very own John Bowers and our very good friend Ryan Jordan.
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Via Middlesex University Teaching Resources - MUTR
Now this is rather fun - the celebrations of the goals in the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United show up in a nearby seismograph! This is Jordi Díaz Cusí‘s trace corresponding with for Lionel Messi’s goal for in the 70th minute:
And the goal itself:
Via Middlesex University Teaching Resources - MUTR - “One of our SEP Seismometer systems used in Barcelona, 800m from fans celebrating during the Champions League final in Rome detected the goal celebrations. See the website here.“
Our friend Tim Hunkin has now finished the arch for the children’s area at London Zoo, that we saw when we visited his workshop on that cold windy day in January. Tim’s has written a really nice description of how the arch developed from concept to installation.
(Paul‘s photo)
Excellent news from curiousite Pixelh8, “After lengthy consideration, I decided I would rather have my Game Boy / Game Boy Advance music software be used by everyone it can be used by, instead of just the few.“ read more
If you grab a copy of May’s Mad Dog Magazine and turn to page 12, you’ll find a nice article from Dean Bowman on us and the Proverb Shows. There’s a downloadable version too.
There’s also Alex’s review of Pixelh8’s Obsolete? at Bletchley Park.
There’s a whole bunch of interesting things coming-up, here’s an incomplete list:
4th Takeaway Festival of DIY Media (19th to 21st May) at the Dana Centre Science Museum London where our friend Ryan Jordan will be performing.
springfestival (20th to 24th May) in Graz, Austria - Pixelh8 will be playing at the Warp Records Night (20th).
Strawberry Fair (6th June) the festival of music, entertainments, arts and crafts, held on Midsummer Common, Cambridge.
Our Electric House Show (28th to 30th June) in Ipswich - more details to follow!
This is a great visualisation of the excellent progress the OpenStreetMap folks have made in 2008 and as you’ll see it all starts in Ipswich!
OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.
“OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in 2008 compared to 2007. During the year, edits were made by some 20,000 individuals…“
Related: Barry Crabtree’s Animated Maps - in fact I think it was Barry who mapped much of Ipswich!
Now this is fun…
“It’s hard work carving the slopes by day and carving the ice by night. For one Special night Australian ski resort Mount Buller was illuminated by ENESS’ signature eyeball installation. Materials used a laptop, 1 cold projector, snow and snow plough.“
Love to give this a go - let’s hope we get some snow in Ipswich this year!
Related: Maker Faire: Video Head and Two Unusual Projection Spaces
This is great! The Play Coalition’s Plantbot is a robotic pot-plant that seeks light… [via make]
Other fun plant projects include Douglas Irving Repetto’s Fly Away (Not Going Very Far)
I heard about this today, Rob Higgs’ The Plant Processor is a thirty-foot-high interactive Heath Robinson device, at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
It’s the world’s largest nutcracker - as Higgs says, “It’s a real sledgehammer to crack a nut”. I think this is strictly speaking an idiom rather than a Proverb...
Cheers,
Dave