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February 27, 2008
Public domain donor
Interesting take on the organ donor card...
Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intellectual property donation. By donating your IP into the public domain you will "promote the progress of science and useful arts" (U.S. Constitution). Ensure that your creativity will live on after you are gone, make a donation today.Public domain donor - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 27, 2008 07:20 AM
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February 26, 2008
Mobile desktop computers in Starbucks
Improv Everywhere brought desktop computers into Starbucks, complete with CRT monitors, and went about their compubusiness. It's called Mission: Mobile Desktop. Try it at home! - [via] Link.
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Feb 26, 2008 09:00 PM
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February 21, 2008
KRINK markers
Wow - Graffiti artist Krink has his own line of markers now, the squeeze marker looks rad! - [via] Link.
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Feb 21, 2008 07:00 AM
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February 13, 2008
Post-it mural
Michael Karnjanaprakorn spotted this while walking around town- a mural made out of a lot of Post-it notes. - [via] Link.
Related:
- OUTDRA.WS - The most useful DIY post-it note - Link.
- Post-It Art Show - Link.
- How to make a Post-it Mosaic - Link.
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Feb 13, 2008 09:00 PM
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February 8, 2008
Two interviews with Theo Watson
Interactive systems maker (and GRL collaborator) Theo Watson just did interviews with two Japanese online magazines, Flash Film Interview and HITSPAPER. He talks about his design challenges in recent projects and where he thinks he'll go next. Don't worry, they both have the interviews in english. Disclosure: I went to undergrad with Theo, and I still learned a thing or two from these interviews. [via] Flash Film Interview - Link; HITSPAPER - Link.
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Feb 8, 2008 12:00 PM
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February 4, 2008
DIY crosswalk is "criminal mischief"
A man in Muncie, Indiana was charged with criminal mischief for painting his own crosswalk at an intersection near his house, claiming that cars weren't slowing down for the stop signs there; the city refused previous requests from Whitney Stump to have a crosswalk put in.
Stump, a 27-year-old Ball State University graduate student and father, says he was arrested in July on a charge of criminal mischief for creating the crosswalk at the intersection of Dicks and North streets. A police officer then warned him after he went back to touch up the paint in August, and the county prosecutor decided to charge him again.
The city has not removed or covered the DIY crosswalk. - [via] Link.
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Feb 4, 2008 07:00 PM
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TV-B-Gone Gun
Ferry, from the HackedGadgets Forum, writes:
"I took 30 IR LEDs and wired them up, a SMD FET switches them on and off and is wired up with a pinheader connector to the TV-B-Gone. Internally the FET is connected to the output pin of the controller, which is also connected to the transistor driving the normal IR LED.
I took a lens out of a old beamer, and used a PVC tube to fit all the stuff in.
After all I painted it black, paint doesn't hold too well on PVC but whatever.
It's possible to focus the beam by turning on a blue LED and slide the LEDs when loosening the screws on the side."
TV-B-Gone Gun - Link
Related:
- TV-B-Gone coverage on the Make: Blog - Link
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Feb 4, 2008 12:00 PM
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February 3, 2008
The Decapitator is back, this time it's newspapers
The artist known as the decapitator is back, this time he's modifying newspapers, here's a video on how he does it - [via] Link (photos).
Related:
The Decapitator - modded ads in London - Link.
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Feb 3, 2008 01:00 AM
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February 2, 2008
Spray paint lamp
The future lamp for graffiti artists for sure, purchasable for $50 or a likely better as a (re)make -
This lamp is one of a kind - made from a vintage Krylon can in Portland, Oregon. The off/on switch is the spray nozzle. The arm clips onto any desk surface and swivels for your ultimate viewing experience. Light bulb included.Spray paint lamp - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 2, 2008 12:00 AM
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January 31, 2008
Remembering 1-31-07
Last year around this time of the morning I was getting calls and emails from people asking "why did MAKE put LED sculptures all over Boston??? CNN says you did!!" it turned out that we (MAKE) had written about LED art projects on MAKE and when CNN Googled (or Ask Jeeves'd) they assumed it was us. It wasn't, and eventually the city of Boston was shut down because of an advertising campaign which used LED panels that looked like the cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I've rounded up all the coverage from last year here - it's interesting to read the comments and questions brought up. Some say the reaction wasn't appropriate, some were surprised how anyone could have thought the simple project could have been considered so dangerous - others wanted to give the guys who did this the death penalty (or worse). Post your thoughts in the comments.
One year later-- Today we have MAKE NYC meeting and I'm building a kit from Evil Mad Scientists, an LED panel that will be displayed in my office. I think this date for many people represents a chance to show that electronics can be art, not something to be feared or immediately considered a "hoax device" - it's up to us to show how great electronics can be and be responsible.
Boston Mooninite story as it happened last year on MAKE - Link.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force shuts down Boston - Link.
Mooninite-inspired LED projects - Link.
HOW TO - Make a LED T-shirt - Link.
Pocket Ignignokt - Make your own Mooninites - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 31, 2008 10:30 AM
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January 29, 2008
Should owning a Geiger counter require permission?
Rich writes about a proposal which would require permission to own a Geiger counter in NYC (pictured here the USB one I used to measure radiation on a plane). Post your thoughts in the comments. Rich writes -
So I find this attempt by the City of New York to regulate sensors to be fascinating. It is hard to read the article, and especially a couple of the comments, without feeling like we are living in the movie Brazil.village voice > news > Runnin' Scared: NYPD Seeks an Air Monitor Crackdown for New Yorkers by Chris Thompson - Link.There is probably a huge history of bans on the ability to observe reality, and I just don't read enough history, but this seems like an attempt to exert a new level of control.
Various bans on publishing data, for example the EPA chemical hazards databases, are related. As are bans on radio scanners and RADAR detectors, but both of those seem like a different kind of thing than regulating the ability to observe objective reality.
It also comes at near the last possible moment (if not too late already) when sensors could be regulated before they become (even more totally) ubiquitous.
Having a 'Warranty Voider' t-shirt in my closet and knife in my pocket makes me think of this proposed regulation in a different way. It makes me want a Social Contract Voider.
The article refers to the mostly hypothetical cases of people monitoring schools and their environment for toxins. I know that is a popular theme when we spin our tales of the coming sensor web utopia, and I've seen a few projects in that area, but it would be great to draw more attention to people powered sensor networks.
There really is an amorphous They who don't want us to know what is going on in our local environment. I'd love to see the radicalization of personal sensor nets.
Having this data fits in with the other puzzle pieces I've been working on for a while now, with a geoweb and maps to tell stories, and my recent Gigapan work. And the attempts to limit this data also fit in with experiences I've been having where people somehow feel they have a right to stop me from taking pictures.
Taking a picture is a radical act. Making a map is a radical act. Taking a sensor reading is a radical act. And putting them together to tell a story is the most radical of radical acts.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 29, 2008 11:00 AM
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January 27, 2008
Sundance New Frontier On Main Roundup
I just returned from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. I traveled with the Graffiti Research Lab who were invited as part of the New Frontier on Main program. New Frontier on Main "showcases cinematic installations, multimedia performance events, microcinema screenings, new media technology, and the Rabbit Hole, a DJ installation lounge cafe." This year, New Frontier included some really interesting artists like Cory Arcangel, DJ Spooky, Doug Aitken, and Jim Campbell.
Highlights of New Frontier exhibit include Home Movies 300 by Jim Campbell. Home Movies 300 is a curtain of high powered LEDs facing a wall. The light projecting from the LEDs creates low resolution moving images on the wall behind them. Jim Campbell took the imagery from found home movie footage.
I walked past Danny Rozin's Wooden Mirror every day for 2 years in grad school. The Peg Mirror (pictured above) is a beautiful evolution of that mirror. The 650 wooden dowels have angled edges that rotate to create the visitor's reflection. The angled edges cause shadows and highlights to form the low resolution image.
Stephanie Rothenburg & Jeff Crouse of the Invisible Threads project were some of the hardest working people at Sundance. They spent every day at New Frontier printing out and sewing jeans that were designed in a Second Life sweatshop. The Second Life sweatshop follows an indentured servant model where workers earn virtual land in exchange for their servitude. Sundance visitors could purchase these jeans fresh out of the printer to help pay for workers' land.
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Jan 27, 2008 05:30 PM
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January 25, 2008
The Experimental Interaction Unit (EIU) projects
The Experimental Interaction Unit (EIU) has a ton of great projects, some of them are a little dated now but still worth checking out... I really like the "LimeLight" project -
The anxiety of our new world demands our vigilant attention. We are drawn into the spiral of constantly filtering and interpreting the breaking news from across the globe, monitoring the state and activities in our local habitats, and drawing pragmatic conclusions of the current threat based on our findings. The solution is a personal tactical system capable of diligently and automatically monitoring complex local and global threat conditions, constantly updating its awareness of these hostilities, and presenting an ambient display to the local user of the current threat level: Limelight.The Experimental Interaction Unit (EIU) projects - Link.Limelight is a personal tactical system that removes the burden of anxiety associated with our continuous worry of emerging global and local threatening conditions. Using a collection of embedded sensors, local measurements of radioactivity and RF signals are continuously scanned for hostile patterns. Similarly, remote precursors of threats such as the appearance and frequency of specific keywords and discussions by various military, news, and independent sources are continuously monitored. The collected data is carefully analyzed and summarized as a visual output where various threats are mapped across a spectrum of illumined and pulsing colors.
Related:
The Experimental Interaction Unit (EIU) - Link.
i-Bomb - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 25, 2008 07:00 AM
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Van Eck phreaking
Jason @ Hackzine writes -
In 1985, Wim van Eck published a paper which described how the state of a CRT monitor could be reproduced remotely based on the device's electromagnetic radiation. Van Eck or TEMPEST devices, whatever you prefer to call them, aren't just the secret sauce in your favorite science fiction, though for some reason there hasn't been a lot of amateur or open source activity here. I'm not sure why, but I suspect as software radios become more affordable, people will start experimenting more in this space.There are two open source Van Eck projects that I know of. The first, pictured above, is Erik Thiele's Tempest for Eliza project. By drawing specific black and white patterns on your monitor, Tempest is able to generate audible signals in the AM range. You can use Tempest to play an mp3 file that you can tune in on your radio.
Tempest for Eliza is a fun demo, but what about being able to read someone's monitor remotely?
There's a second open source project, called EckBox, that claims to do just this. By piping the audio from a radio through an 8-bit analog to digital converter, EckBox claims to be able to read this data from a PC parallel port and reproduce the image of an 800x600 monitor. Looking at the code, it seems almost too simple to be true. Likewise, the project hasn't been updated since June 2004 and there aren't many references or screenshots or words of success floating around the net. Anyone with a parallel port and an ADC want to give this a shot and let us know how it works?
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Jan 25, 2008 12:00 AM
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January 24, 2008
Graffiti Reseach Lab Live From Sundance
I am visiting Sundance Film Festival with Graffiti Research Lab where GRL premiered Graffiti Research Lab: the Complete First Season. Besides spending a lot of time freezing outside with Laser Tag, GRL also debuted the Beat Case.
The Beat Case is a portable audio system built to help the Palestinian rappers Dam and PR, here for the movie Slingshot Hip Hop, perform around Park CIty. The Beat Case includes a microphone and line level inputs, is battery powered, and all fits inside a Pelican case. An Instructable for the Beat Case will be coming soon. You can see more photos and hijinks at the Graffiti Research Lab web site. - Link
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Jan 24, 2008 09:30 AM
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January 22, 2008
Glowstick street graffiti
Clever use of glowsticks to make a space scene on an urban street a new "Urban intervention" by SpY - [via] Link.
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Jan 22, 2008 04:00 AM
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Mini Cloaca - Desktop digester
Great write up on Wim Delvoye's Cloaca @ we make money not art. It's a desktop sized machine that eats food and digests it...
The Casino de Luxembourg has recently held a retrospective exhibition of Delvoye's defecating machines.Wim Delvoye: Cloaca 2000-2007 - we make money not art - [via] Link.The whole family was there: Cloaca Original, Cloaca - New & Improved, Cloaca Turbo, Cloaca Quattro, Cloaca N° 5, Super Cloaca and Personal Cloaca. Plus original drawings, 3D and x-ray photographs, models of Cloaca Clinic gates, videos, sealed bags of Cloaca Faeces and other paraphernalia.
0aacloamini.jpgThe brand new 8th Cloaca, Mini Cloaca (on the left), was premiered at the Casino. The tubular structure is made of metal and glass, and composed of mechanical organs that swallow, grind, digest and defecate a given amount of food. While Super Cloaca consumes 300 kg of food and produces 80 kg of faeces per day, the quantity of food ingested by the dwarfed one is equivalent to that of a breakfast.
The idea of a mechanical reproduction of the human digestive system goes back to the Digesting Duck by 18th century engineer Jacques de Vaucanson and just like Piero Manzoni 's Merda d'artista [Artist's shit] Delvoye's machines can be regarded as an assault on the system of art.
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Jan 22, 2008 12:00 AM
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January 21, 2008
Message tape
I thought we posted this up up awhile back but it's didn't show up in the search so here it goes - color the white parts to make your own message with "message tape" - [via] Link.
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Jan 21, 2008 04:00 AM
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January 20, 2008
Phone looks like pack of cigarettes and cell phone jammer that fits inside a pack of cigarettes
This phone was made to look like a pack of smokes and it can also hold a half a pack of cigarettes in the back...- [via] Link.
It could be a nicotine fueled response to the cell jammers (both commercial and DIY) which also fit inside packs of cigarettes too. Pictured above, I believe this one was from "advanced-intelligence" - Link.
And there's the open source hardware version, the WaveBubble - Link.
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Jan 20, 2008 01:00 AM
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January 17, 2008
Writers strike - best thing ever for making (and more?)
In the USA there's a writers strike - what's that? The Writers Guild of America is a labor union that represent over 12,000 film/tv/radio writers. The writers want DVD residuals, money from stuff that goes on the web and more - the details can be found here.
What does this have to do with making? Over the last few months I've seen more people start projects than ever before, many have told me their favorite shows aren't on so they decided to dust off their tools and make something. Projects are flowing in to the MAKE submission form, new things in MAKE Flickr photo pool - it's awesome.
Pictured above, a bar made from an old TV.
Seriously, think about it - the shows you once watched, they don't seem so interesting once you tune out for a bit. I sorta liked Heros, but after there wasn't much going on I stopped watching and now as I look back I don't think I'll watch it again. It's just X-Men, I'd rather read a comic book, at least there's good art to look at, sometimes. Besides, most of the good shows and movies are torrented so it's not like a TV is really needed - sorry, it's true - a gigantic number of people with a broadband connection are downloading TV shows and movies. I'll watch Battlestar when it comes back, but that's about it - I really want that show to end before it gets dumb.
What else? Friends who never cared about politics are getting (more) interested. There's nothing on, but the news - and the news is pretty much the best comedy/drama you could ever imagine.
With the extra time away from the TV you can make something, get involved with politics - heck, even exercise. One of the things exercise does is -make time- you'll get years more of life to do things you want to do... Like make stuff. People who have something to do usually seem live longer too. Maybe this is a call to be creative. I've never met anyone over 90 that said "Boy, I wish I watched more TV". Usually they say they wish they traveled more and did more things with friends/family.
This strike will pass soon and all the shows and movies will return, but what an interesting opportunity to do something else - even if it's just for a little while.
What do you think? Is the writers strike the best thing ever? Have you re-started hobbies during this time?
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Jan 17, 2008 04:00 PM
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