I like this: The Projected Instrument Augmentation system (PIANO) was developed by pianists Katja Rogers and Amrei Röhlig and their colleagues at the University of Ulm in Germany. A screen attached to an electric piano has colourful blocks projected onto it that represent the notes. As the blocks of colour stream down the screen they […]
Category Archives: Culture
Learn Piano through AR
Snake
Watch, and be mesmerised: It’s gotta be a computer program playing this, right?
Screens
[box]This post originally appeared on the FTMF.info planning blog.[/box] Within the pages of Watchmen, Adrian Veidt, the so-called “smartest man in the world”, esteemed business leader and founding member of the Crimebusters is shown at a wall of televisions, each tuned to a different channel. He uses this clatter of imagery, sound and motion to make sense of […]
Q4 Star Mix – New Music!
Happy New Year everyone! Right then, 2013 – let’s do this. An interesting quirk of the New Year is that searches for “new music” spike on New Years Day, cool huh? With this in mind, here is a load of my new music discoveries. This is the final playlist of 2012 in my ongoing Spotify Star […]
3D Printed Success Kid
Shapeways is a growing repository of 3D models for purchase by 3D printing hobbyists, and like everywhere else on the web, they’ve attracted a fair few memes. But none are as inspired as this most recent entry: Success Kid! Here’s how digital artist Ryan Kittleson sculpted a model (modelled a sculpture?) of this now seminal image using Sculptris. The final […]