February 21, 2007

Laser graffitti + chrome spheres

File under Enormousness:

  • You've gotta love any ingredient list that includes the phrase, "1 60mW Green Laser (super illegal in a lot of places and very dangerous)."  And you've really gotta love what the Graffiti Research Lab does with theirs, lighting up a Rotterdam building with all kinds of hand-drawn art.  Big style points for the dripping paint effect!
  • I've always really liked mosaics and particle systems, and I used to browbeat a friend in Illustrator engineering to convert their mosaic filter to create symbols (good for turning artwork into particles that could be animated, kind of like these fish).  That hasn't happened, but in the meantime I can enjoy Danny Rozin's shiny balls mirror (see video).  Comprised of "921 hexagonal black-anodized aluminum tube extrusions, 921 chrome-plated plastic balls, and 819 motors," the system reflects the viewer twice: once in each ball, and once in the entire piece. [Via]. See also his earlier wooden mirror (video).  And lastly, his Time Scan Mirror reminds me of the Scanner Photography Project (the site for which is now down, unfortunately).
[Update: Speaking of mosaics, how about a cereal Seinfeld? [Via]]
Posted by John Nack at 06:54 AM on February 21, 2007

Comments

Andrew Edwards — 01:44 PM on February 21, 2007

I'm guessing you've got to know somebody to get one of those lasers...

Maryland Wedding Photographers — 04:58 PM on February 22, 2007

John, where do you find this stuff?

[Heh--this particular one is all over the Net this week. I think I picked it up from Boing Boing (not very magical/rarefied, I know). --J.]

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