We made an animated GIF photobooth for our holiday party @DigitalKitchen Seattle.
Nerdy details:
A button linked to the MAKE controller triggers a MaxMSP patch across 3 MacBook Pros that fires 3 cameras simultaneously. The images are then saved to a networked HDD, stitched together using Automator, and a photoshop action droplet runs a filter and saves a GIF.
The GIFs are then projected for everyone to see using a custom slideshow with candystriping, built in Flash.
As for the set, we built it to be destructible. The set was made from cardboard, cotton, and tape. And we also made a dozen or so props: giant axe, beards, crystals, etc.
Global Village Construction Set is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
(Source: vimeo.com)
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames
“In a world of McMansions, where the structure takes up all the land. The Eames made structure and nature one. This is going green 1949 style, bitch. Beleedat.”
(Source: youtube.com)
Chacaltaya mountain in Bolivia with an elevation of 17,785 ft once had one of the highest glaciers in South America. The 18,000-year-old glacier had the world’s highest ski run - the first built in Latin America. After losing 80% of its area in the last 2 decades, it finally disappeared in 2009, much faster than scientists had predicted. All that remains is a bedrock. Photo by Nick Ballon
Fold Boat are simple, single-piece boats that collapse and fold flat to be easily transported.
Smart stuff.
