The b.The b. | The b. http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b The b. is an inspirational repository about art, technology, communication and innovation. Like a bee, it seeks to pollinate… What we find, we want to share… In the hope to pollinate new and amazing ideas! The B. Pollination ideas. The B. Is a division of Blend Communications www.blendingpoint.com Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:32:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Infographics and stereotypes http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/infographics-and-stereotypes/ http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/infographics-and-stereotypes/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:21:59 +0000 Simona http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/?p=1414

A tally of two cities, Based on Vahram Muratyan’s book, Paris vs New York, Edition Penguin Book.

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Ice Angel, an interactive exhibit by London-based Cinimod Studio, gives visitors their own wings – rendered in blinking LED lights.

Cinimod says they used a 3D camera to create a display that interacts with each user differently. A visitor steps onto a platform, and a pair of wings unfurl and flap in time with their own arms, revealing an ‘angel identity.’ And the screen will remember them – if they visit again, their original wings return.

The designers say they were inspired by snow angels made by small children, but these digital creatures also have greater meaning: ‘The merging of the mythology of angels and the natural phenomenon of light travelling to earth creates an intriguing intersection.’

Ice Angel from Cinimod Studio on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/ice-angel/feed/ 0 Touch the music with Noisy Jelly! http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/noisyjelly/ http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/noisyjelly/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:02:25 +0000 Simona http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/?p=1328 Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly.
With this noisy chemistry lab, the gamer will create his own jelly with water and a few grams of agar agar powder. After added different color, the mix is then pour in the molds. 10 min later, the jelly shape can then be placed on the game board,and by touching the shape, the gamer will activate different sounds.
Technically, the game board is a capacitive sensor, and the variations of the shape and their salt concentration, the distance and the strength of the finger contact are detected and transform into an audio signal.
This object aims to demonstrate that electronic can have a new aesthetic, and be envisaged as a malleable material, which has to be manipulated and experimented.

Authors: Raphaël pluvinage (pluvinage.eu and twitter (twitter.com/#!/rpluvina)
& Marianne Cauvard (mariannecauvard.fr)
at L’Ensci Les ateliers (ensci.com)
Project done in the semester course of François Azambourg and Clémentine Chambon
Thanks to Roland Cahen for his help (especially sorting out with Max/Msp)
Photo credit: Véronique HUYGHE
Music credit : “Whip it” of Devo

Note : This project is a fully working prototype made with Arduino and Max/Msp, there are absolut no sound editing in the video…
More picture at this flickr set here
And download the Project pdf  here 


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]]> http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/wonder-objects/feed/ 0 Not Your Ordinary Book Light http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/not-your-ordinary-book-light/ http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/not-your-ordinary-book-light/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:52:39 +0000 Simona http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/?p=1355 Check out this inspiring do it yourself video to create your “illuminating book”….


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And this is the direct demonstration: “Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator.

The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main objective and mission is to “change people’s behaviour for the better by making it fun to do.” . Check out all the other amazing projects promoted and created thanks to the support and financing of the famous german car brand!


]]> http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/piano-stairs/feed/ 0 An exciting new way of using manuals http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/an-exiciting-new-way-of-using-manuals/ http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/an-exiciting-new-way-of-using-manuals/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:12:31 +0000 Simona http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/?p=1299 Most phones come with flimsy manuals with complicated language and jargon. These books, which can live on a bookshelf actually contain the phone. Each page reveals the elements of the phone in the right order, helping the user to set up the sim card, the battery and even slide the case onto the phone.

The second book is the main manual – the phone actually slots into this and becomes the center of attention.
Arrows point to the exact locations the user should press, avoiding confusion and eliminating the feeling of being lost in a menu.

For further info: vitaminsdesign.com

 

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By means of our family archives of photographies, our past memories seems less past than they really are.

And sometimes they simply end up overlapping with our present.
Like in this brilliant web-based open project -> http://dearphotograph.com/.

Tens and tens of photos are continually taken and sent by people all over the world with a few rules in mind:
- taking an old photo with themselves exactly in the same place where it was taken once
- holding the photo and positioning it in the exact perspective so to overlap it with the physical reality and to create a trompe l’œil-effect of continuity between photo and environment
- taking a new photo of the photo framed by the real context

Result? An emotional database of memories and a continually growing experience of stories and physical connections.
Simply and undoubtedly wonderful.

 

 

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A photographer knows it well: light is the pre-condition and starting point of each of his works.
It is the matter of creation, his modelling clay, his source of inspiration.
But light can be more than that.
It can be the objective of a creation, the synthesis and the muse.

By setting long exposure times and high apertures, the camera becomes something similar to the painter’s brush.

This is a beautiful series of photos taken with this technique…enjoy!

Burn Blue Photography aka Toby Keller Burn Blue Photography aka Toby Keller 2 Burn Blue Photography aka Toby Keller 3 Burn Blue Photography aka Toby Keller 4 Burn Blue Photography aka Toby Keller 5 Burn Blue Photography aka Toby Keller 6 Burn Blue Photography aka Toby Keller 7 LICHTFAKTOR 1 LICHTFAKTOR 2 LICHTFAKTOR 3 LICHTFAKTOR 4 LICHTFAKTOR 5 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 1 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 2 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 3 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 4 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 5 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 6 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosank0 7 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 8 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 9 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 10 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 11 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 12 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 13 Light Graffiti, Michael Bosanko 14 ]]> http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/light-graffiti/feed/ 0 Still life? http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/still-life/ http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/still-life/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:57:18 +0000 Simona http://www.blendingpoint.com/the-b/?p=1277 Check out this brilliant interactive project produced Süperfad with the aim of exploring the classic “still life”-style of paintings.

 

By simply shaking left and right a motion-sensitive frame (obtained from a standard TV screen), some “digitally”painted objects will come to life, falling by means of gravity force.

Learn more about the project.

This project was produced at Süperfad (superfad.com).

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