My poet husband (shameless promotional plugs here and here) went to a reading at the Bowery Poetry Club this Saturday and came back bearing gifts in form of cultgear blogging material. Flarf is an avant-garde poetry movement in which poets mine the internet for random words and phrases which are pieced together into poems. Some [...]
mad about murakami
Two weekends ago, I had the best Sunday afternoon with my relapeeps. After a nice brunch, my cousins and I went to the Brooklyn Art Museum to check out Takashi Murakami’s fabulous retrospective. When seen in bits and pieces, his art may seem superficial and infantile, flat and cartoonie. But when more than ninety works [...]
dancing with a glow
This dance solo was performed at The Kitchen a few months ago, and I’m quite sad to have missed it. Glow is a performance piece that combines interactive video technology and contemporary dance. An infrared camera follows a dancer on the floor and sends real time signals to a computer. The computer runs algorithms which [...]
posture child
My dear mother–a lady to the core, herself a daughter of another genuine lady–has always wanted me to stand and sit upright (a must for any lady in the making). I’m sad to report that her lady-making business with me is still a work in progress…However, there’s hope with this interactive underwear, Ergoskin, designed by [...]
absolut audio
So, remember how I blogged about Absolut Vodka music machines that take your melody, which you enter on your computer, and improvise it on the spot? I just received an email with a video that plays my tune (a tune I used to bang on every piano that came across my path). It’s quite beautiful [...]
handmade
If BBC considers you the next best contemporary artist after Matthew Barney, then everyone else ought to listen. After seeing her on coolhunting, I’ve been obsessively googling Saskia Olde Wolbers and reading tons of articles about her work.
Her videos are truly stunning. Her stories are intricate, poignant and intelligent. But what really amazed me was [...]
watch it!
I’m totally into my Nixon watch. It’s ever present on my wrist and never fails to please the crowd. Needless to say, my shoe addiction is not the only vice…Well, imagine how my greedy little heart started to palpitate when I saw these gorgeous watches featured on Yanco Design (the best online mag for latest [...]
herbie fully loaded
While having a major Saturday morning vegg out session, I stumbled upon an awesome documentary about legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock. In Herbie Hancock Possibilities, cameras follow Herbie’s collaborative music making, as he jams with Stevie Wonder, Sting, John Mayer, Christian Aguilera, Paul Simon, John Patitucci, Annie Lennox, Joss Stone, Angelique Kidjo, Damien Rice, Raul [...]
talk to the wrist
I am not really sure what these electronic bracelets actually do, but according to their creator, Leah Buechley a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, these sassy LED accessories function as “motion-sensing, communicating wearable displays. Each bracelet contains an accelerometer that senses wrist movement and [...]
hot but bothered
Though completely swept away by its beauty, I’m just a tad bothered by the blatant leap between art and commerce in Prada’s animated short, Trembled Blossoms. Conceived as wallpaper for Prada stores, this collaboration between 2×4 and illustrator James Jean was animated via motion-capture technology and latest animation techniques.
Totally gorgeous, I know…But the story of [...]
virtual mourning
Architect and artist Maya Lin was only a senior in college when she won a national competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washingotn D.C. Her idea was simple, yet powerful and poetic: a reflective 246-foot granite wall etched with 58,000 names of fallen American soldiers. According to Wired Magazine, the wall is now [...]
avatart
Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.ORG, are performance artists whose main medium is technology. Using their Second Life avatars, they stage Synthetic Performances which are reenactments of famous performance pieces from the past. Here, they reproduce Vito Acconci’s notorius Seedbed, performed in 1972, where he masturbated while nested under a ramp at the Sonnabend Gallery [...]
the villa nurbs
Imagine living in a house with breathable skin that adjusts to light and weather almost as if it was a living organism. Wedged between suburban homes outside of Barcelona, The Villa Nurbs created by architect Enric Ruiz-Geli, is an architectural gem encompassing attributes that–as its creator admits–weren’t possible before technological progress.
In his interview with the [...]
absolut machines
What do you get when you mix vodka, music, technology, and a dash of creativity? An awesome interactive music machine dubbed “ABSOLUT Quartet” commissioned by Absolut Vodka and envisioned by artists/technological sculptors/musicians Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska. This project is not only a genius combination of creative thought and technological knowledge, but is also a [...]
transformers
Every experienced fashionasta knows that with the right accessories one can transform a little black dress into a chick work outfit or a fierce night-on-the-town ensemble. During his jaw-dropping fashion show, designer Hussein Chalayan demonstrated that dress transformation can be done quite literally. Appearing from behind a giant clock that seemed to allude [...]
mood ring 2.0
As a perpetually crabby, angst-driven teen I depended on mood rings to explain my adolescent hormonal mood swings. Nowadays, peeps can measure their emotional state with Skintile – a line of electronic-sensing jewelry made from stretchable sensor “fabric”. Researchers from STELLA Project who developed this material are on a mission to discover its additional applications [...]
