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Viscosity- The Modern Art Generator

Posted By: Laura Foy | Apr 1st @ 10:27 AM
Who says geeks and art don't go hand in hand? Well, certainly not the judges at this years South by SouthWest Festival. Microsoft employee, Jeff Weir, created Viscosity - an online abstract art application- and it won the Best Art award at this years SXSW. It's fun, it's beautiful and it's free. Hear from the man himself in this clip and then go play with it and start creating.
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Congrats to Live Labs' Jeff Weir

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Mar 11th @ 10:29 PM
Jeff Weir is a UX Designer in Microsoft's Live Labs. Between free alcohol, parties, more alcohol, more parties, and a general lack of sleep, Jeff managed to win the South by Southwest (SXSW) Web Award in the Art category. Jeff's application, Viscosity, is a modern art generator.

Viscosity kind of reminds me of some of Shirley Shor's work that was featured on Celebrity Apprentice last week. While I looked at Shirley's vastly expensive framed LCD panel playing through moving artwork, I thought to myself "Hey, I could make that with an old Tablet PC... well, except for the moving art part."  Well, now I think I'll just frame a spare Tablet PC and direct it to Jeff's Viscosity watch page. Very cool. Congrats Jeff.
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You can be an Animation Master

Posted By: Laura Foy | Dec 19th, 2007 @ 10:12 AM
I've been fiddling around with Photoshop for years now and I love manipulating my pictures and putting my friends heads on Fabio's body (good times) but I've always been hesitant to make the jump into animation. I've tried here and there but never went full force into learning good technique. Then I found Animation Master. It makes animating objects really simple and fun to learn. This is definitely a program for beginners and not expert animators but for people like me, its a quick and fun way to get your foot through the animation door.
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You want a Stage? Check out Ourstage.

Posted By: Laura Foy | Aug 16th, 2007 @ 3:02 AM
Ourstage lets you be the film-maker you've always wanted to be. Create your own videos and let your peers be your judge...for cash prizes. Artists upload, fans decide, everybody wins.
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Eyebeam.org 10th Anniversary Celebration Party

Posted By: Laura Foy | Aug 1st, 2007 @ 10:21 AM
Eyebeam is the center for technology and arts. They recruit artists to become residents in their studio space and spend their time creating brilliant works of art. They are constantly having events and gallery showings which are both educational and inspiring. Recently they celebrated their 10th anniversary by throwing a huge party and since I never like to miss a party...I headed on over and brought my camera so I could share it all with you. Enjoy.

Also- check out my previous coverage to learn more about The Eyebeam Studios.
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EyeBeam - Art and Technology Center

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jul 5th, 2007 @ 12:20 PM
This is an artists dream. Imagine a place where technology meets art, and then imagine a place where you get paid to collaborate those crafts. Welcome to Eyebeam.
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Maker Faire: Bre Pettis gives us...Photo Bot

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jun 19th, 2007 @ 11:59 AM
Channel 10 and Bre Pettis (from Make Magazine and imakethings.com) have been dear old buddies from the very beginning. I found the talented boy down at Maker Faire and he shared with us his latest brain child. A robotic pen that does line drawing portraits, of course!
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Maker Faire: Sherman Robots & Robot BUGS

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jun 6th, 2007 @ 1:19 PM
Mark and Bill Sherman have taken their love and passion for robotics and turned it into an artform. And by "artform", I mean ArtBots. I swung by their booth this year at Maker Faire and found out where their inspiration comes from and just what it takes to create your own plantbots. What's a plantbot you say? Well...go ahead and click play and find out :)
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Fill your idle [screen] time with fine art

Posted By: JD Lewin | Apr 3rd, 2007 @ 2:04 PM
We’ve mentioned the gorgeous work of thirteen23 previously when Duncan mentioned their Flickr and Netflix apps, and also as part of Laura’s in-depth look at WPF with Tim Sneath. The cool kids from Austin were also at SXSW showing their work off to Scoble, which encouraged us to have another look at their site. De.collage is one of their older apps, but that shouldn’t stop you from playing. Do yourself a favor and download the app, and be sure to follow the instructions to twist it into your screensaver. You’ll impress everyone nearby with your appreciation of fine art, as well as the sweet 3D effects your Vista machine churns out.
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VJ Night

Posted By: Laura Foy | Mar 12th, 2007 @ 3:02 PM
DJ Scobot hosts: Half social, half showcase the VJ Night is both a regular meeting point for VJs, DJs, and everyone who is fascinated by this highly artistic medium as well as a showcase of some of the best work of local talents. Every month they invite local artists to share their work and talk about their craft—what they do, why they do it and how they do it. VJing as an emerging art form has yet to find a home in Seattle (in the US as a matter of fact) outside of the regular club scene and they have set out to change that. They are excited to provide a forum for audiovisual creatives to meet, share, and enjoy the art of VJing.

Also, check out the latest in VJ technology that I found at CES '07
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For the geek who has everything

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Mar 8th, 2007 @ 3:15 PM
I couldn't possibly be the only one who really wants a "wireframe room" in his house (or am I?) Sculptor Thomas Raschke makes the virtual a reality with his Wire Frames, art based on model forms.

There is something technologically comforting about seeing things in reality as they are so often seen on your computer, or seeing an object defined by its edge characteristics rather than its mass.

While this probably won't show up at Ikea any time soon, for now you can enjoy a dozen or so incredible works of art on Raschke's site.
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DorkBot experiments with experimental film & video

Posted By: Laura Foy | Feb 15th, 2007 @ 7:26 PM
Dorkbot is a nationwide friendly meeting of "dorks" who get together to collaborate and share their artforms. My first visit to dorkbot led me to a pre-burning man extravaganza. This time we dabbled in the workd of experimantal film and video. Check out some solo multimedia film performances, from the fabulous Karry Fefer and Justin Gorman.
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MS Paint Enthusiasts

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Jan 17th, 2007 @ 1:46 PM
I love watching a power user working with their application of choice. You can really learn a lot by watching someone who has command over a given application, effortlessly doing the things you might not have even known the program could do.

MS Paint probably doesn't get the credit it deserves as an imaging app, but check out some of the amazing things people have done with it including this video of a low rider being drawn in MS Paint.
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Star Wars series Mimoco flash drives begin with Vader

Posted By: JD Lewin | Oct 18th, 2006 @ 11:48 AM

Contrary to the promise of our friends from Stanford, the network doesn’t always give us what we need. Almost daily we find a need for some quick handheld digital storage, and naturally rather than the generic branded swag, we want have something cute/geeky. Mimoco has a great track record for providing such adorable flash drives, but now they’ve really upped the ante.

Starting with everyone’s favorite Dark Lord of the Sith, Mimoco presents their Star Wars series flash drives. As with their previous offerings, Vader is available in 1GB ($US80), 2GB ($US120), and 4GB ($US170) capacities. Even better is this Jedi of file sharing is the first of four in the series. Go and preorder Anakin now, and he’ll help you usher in 2007 in style.

(via Gizmodo)
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The Hazard Factory brings you the Power Tools Race and Derby!

Posted By: Laura Foy | Aug 25th, 2006 @ 10:00 AM
Founded in 2000 by Rusty Oliver, Hazard Factory is a Seattle based political, metal, machine, & fire arts studio. Recently they invited their members, friends, enemies and lovers to modify their old power tools and bring 'em on down for a fun filled day of racing and desctruction. Oh, and drinking. Enjoy.
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Tech meets Rock

Posted By: Laura Foy | Apr 19th, 2006 @ 1:00 PM
You have to check out this guy...His name is Trimpin and he's an artsit from Germany who uses computers and technology to create art and musical instruments. It's awesome, you have to see it for yourself.
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Revenge of the Dorks

Posted By: Laura Foy | Apr 13th, 2006 @ 1:00 PM
The dorks are taking over- Dorkbot is a nationwide group of technology based artists who get together to collaborate and create works of art. I dropped in on one of their meetings and made a few new friends...check it out.
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