The Corpus Callosum

Interesting medium-work on iri5’s Flickr page titled Ghost in the Machine. She uses cassette tapes, old film, and reels in this photo set to recreate portraits of famous musicians and celebrities. Check out her Flickr account for more amazing cassette tape art.

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I wish I had gone back to Hong Kong during National Week to check out the Graffiti Analysis 2.0 exhibition at the Input/Output Gallery. Graffiti Analysis 2.0 is an open-framework application that tracks the motion of graffiti tags and digitally represents them in 3D forms based on a single-line input created by the user.

It’s a remarkably cool project by digital artist Evan Roth and software developer Chris Sugrue. It may look like a one-trick pony right now but with a few more technical tweaks and colour customizations, this effect will surely make its way into advertisements and mainstream media in the near future.

Graffiti Analysis 2.0 - Oct 2, 2009 at Input Output from Evan Roth

Digital Blackbook (Graffiti Analysis 2.0) from Evan Roth

In addition to this amazing timelapse video of the National Day parade created by Dan Chung, here are a few more stunning images that capture China’s organizational brilliance.  Courtesy of XinHua.

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Acclaimed LIFE photographer Gjon Mili brought us these stunning photographs of Pablo Picasso using light as a medium and darkness as a canvas to create momentary pieces of art. Now you can try your hand at this effect with “Halo”, an LED graffiti spray can developed by French designer Aïssa Logerot.

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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the city of Beijing wowed the world audience with a spectacle that was part weapons showcase, part salute to country, and all so lavishly techni-colour that it would have made Joseph and his dreamcoat jealous.

Helicopters, fighter jets, missile-armed tanks, dancers, martial artists, athletes, you name it; no dollar was left unspent to make this celebration unforgettable. Even the usual smoggy skies were clear and blue, thanks to special government ordained weather and cloud control procedures.

If you didn’t catch the show on TV, Dan Chung has filtered the six hour extravaganza and edited the footage down to a timelapsed 3.5 minute video for your viewing pleasure. The surreal synchronization is captured beautifully; in certain shots, the scene is so sublime that I thought I was looking at a fake movie set full of plastic figurines.

Nigel Li is a video game designer by day and a t-shirt/clothing designer by night for his label Junktion Design. Much love goes out to Nigel for hooking up his latest tee design “Wisdom” which incorporates a psychedelic 3D effect when viewed with 3D glasses.

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