Una selección de libros de Jorge Luis Borges digitalizados y listos para descargar, un autor imprescindible en la biografía lectora de cualquiera.
Es muy probable que prácticamente todo lo que has registrado a lo largo de tu vida sea una recurrente y compartida alucinación; relájate y disfruta este paraíso simulado.
El concepto de ‘realidad’ es uno de los más complejos con los que puede confrontarse la mente humana. Tal vez…
HIroshima destruida. Video en anime históricamente preciso. Escrito y vivido por un sobreviviente de esta desgarradora película.
Barefoot Gen, HIroshima Destroyed (por Mrcharrio)
Have you ever played with a Spirograph? You know, the little plastic gears that enable you to draw all sorts of cool geometric patterns until you work yourself up into such a creative frenzy that your eyes glaze over, you wear holes in the paper, gears and drawing materials start flying all over the place and your pets run for cover…er, maybe that was just us.
Anyway! We ask because it might help you appreciate an art project we recently discovered that was created by an artist who did something that we always think is awesome. She took an object designed for a very specific purpose and successfully altered it to do something wildly different and a whole lot of fun.
In this case the artist is Rosemarie Fiore. While some people go to amusement parks to ride thrilling rides and eat ridiculous fried foods, Rosemarie apparently went to one and was inspired turn one of those rides into a giant instrument for creating works of art.
“I connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned.”
That’s right, for the project, created in 2004 and titled “Good-Time Mix Machine: Scrambler Drawings”, she basically turned a carnival ride into an enormous spirograph. The very concept makes us smile.
[via Sweet Station]
This custom based on a 1978 BMW R100/7 sure ain’t pretty, but it has a certain something.
(Source: ryandonato)
Audible Color by Hideaki Matsui and Momo Miyazaki
[watch the video]
Audible color is an audio-visual instrument. Sound is generated based on color detected by a web cam connected to a computer. Red, green and blue correspond with certain music notes. When the colors are mixed, the resulting secondary colors produce different notes.
The size of the colors influences the volume and frequency of the notes played. Color detection and sound generation were created and are controlled using Processing code. The system of audible color is based on a marriage between basic color and music theories. The colors of red, blue, and green are the visual foundation for color-mixing and the music notes A, D, and F are the base triad that corresponds to the colors. The secondary colors (colors made when the foundational three are mixed) of purple, teal and brown are tuned to the musical triad C, E and G. The visual of the mixing of red, blue and/or green mirrors the aural output of combined notes.
The ‘painting’ aspect is not restricted to water droplets from a pipette. Numerous experiments were performed using substances such as acrylic paint, food dye in milk with soap, and ordinary household objects. Each investigation created a new type of fun and easy gestural music-making.
[found at Design Boom]
