Paint the streets at Rosenthaler Platz

A very simple, yet effective idea to paint the streets: Just put some kilos pigment on a very frequented crossing and the bikes and cars will do the painting. As seen yesterday at Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin, a yet to be named group of streetartists used the popular place in Berlin Mitte to install their spontaneous piece of art.

Here are some impressions via Flickr:

Not surprisingly, the story soon got twittered and blogged and some newspapers caught up the news as well:

“Minutes before, bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerilla public art piece.”
by The ambassador

I caught the fotos from Just Blogsport you can watch a video on Kraftfuttermischwerk, even De Telegraaf from the Netherlands had it as news, and Berlins daily newspaper BZ states:
“Die Autos verteilten die Farbe auf der Fahrbahn, bis eine überdimensionale Trikolore aus bunten Streifen enstand.”
by BZ

It is unclear who is behind this project, I have a guess and will research a bit more.

Wie Wired auf dem iPad aussehen wird

Hier stellen Wired Redakteure und Designer voller Enthusiasmus die Möglichkeiten vor, die Magazinmacher mit Geräten wie dem iPad bekommen werden. Die Texte werden mit Videos und Schnittstellen zu Social Networks angereichtert, Werbung wird zu Produktvorstellungen als 3D Modell. Man darf gespannt sein, wie andere Zeitungen und Zeitschriften damit umgehen werden, vor allem solche, die nach wie vor Redakteure mit einer ganz klaren Printdenke beschäftigen und die ist, auch und sogar bei jungen Journalisten nach wie vor äußerst ausgeprägt. Vor allem die Sprache der Wired-Macher zeigt ihre Einstellung zu ihrer Arbeit: “Storytelling, Communicating ideas and creations” ist der Kern der Arbeit laut Scott Dadich, Creative Director bei Wired. Ein Ansatz, den ich mir von viel mehr Journalismusmachern wünschen, trotz oder gerade wegen des andauernden Medienwandels, der ihre Branche so durcheinander schüttelt.

Amazing Prezi demonstration

If you haven’t seen Prezi in action, this is an awesome illustration. Watch first the video which gives you an impression about how to work with Prezi (speed is 10x) and then the result, a Prezi which sums up a class by Howard Rheingold on Social Media in Stanford last october, done pretty much simultaneously by Adam Somlai-Fischer, artist and Prezi co-founder.

Click ‘play’, ‘wait’, click ‘more’, ‘fullscreen’, keep clicking.

Continuity Game

This is a great game, small, fast, and easy to get into. Not always easy to solve and not supereasy to understand. You are the little man and need to collect the key to open the door and get top the next level. Zoom in with space and jump and run within the given square. Zoom out and reorder the squares to be able to walk from square to square in case they fit together. It’s intriguing and comes with good music. Enjoy th continuitygame.

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What is Beck’s Gold Urban Experiences?

Starting from tonight, “Beck’s Gold Urban Experiences” will be exploring urban ways of customizing reality today. It is sponsored by Beck’s Gold and supposed to reach out to artists and creative people for producing ideas and lots of beautiful content to put the spotlight on interesting approaches and enrich an entertaining discussion within this field.

The campaign will be lasting at least during 2010 and consists of several events and online documentation and interaction. First, there will be three so-called “workspaces” in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, starting tonight in Berlin. Artists are invited to shape their vision of customizing reality and to present them to an audience which hopefully interacts with the created pieces. The artists, like e.g. Kim Köster, Klub7, Tracknfield or Balestra Berlin create a room filled with pieces which exist, shine or interact with the people. All of the artists have a background of creating art in a modern, reflecting and urban way in a sense of technology and interaction. Tonight, there will be a breadbaking experiment, lifesound recordings and lots of visual approaches to shaping urban environments. Check out some impressions from the preparations:

My role in the campaign is and was to find ways for interaction, preparation and documentation online, including a community for artists, social media profiles like Flickr, YouTube and the Urban Blog urban.becks.de. Together with Silk relations, Coma and the Beck’s team we put together lots of ideas which will become reality in the next 14 months. Follow @becksurban on Twitter to get updates and get the Urban Blog RSS. The blog is curated by Nilzenburger and will feature a ton of writers who will put together their vision of urban reality today.

MyLifestyleblog has a good overview in German about Beck’s Urban Experiences too.

eRockit: An electric bike to race cars with

The eRockit is a mixture between bike and electric motorcycle. You still use your legs to get it in motion but merely use your power as a trigger for the electric speed. It goes up to 80km/h so it can even be used on the autobahn. Moreover it looks fantastic and sounds like future (in this case the furture is noiseless). Of course, it’s a prototype and if you want to get one your own, it would be a toy worth 25000 EUR. But to be able to accelerate faster than a car on a traffic sign could be worth it.

Next weekend in Berlin: Atoms&Bits festival

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Next weekend, a bunch of friends of mine will organize the atoms&bits Camp, a weekend full of making, doing, questioning and understanding. It’s part of the Atoms & Bits festival, a decentralized event that stretches over 10 days (September 18-27th), taking place in different locations from Berlin to Brooklyn, from Munich to Montreal.

atoms&bits Camp is one of the central points of the a&b Festival. Around 400 participants will meet to discuss, plan projects, and to network. Borrowing from the Barcamp format, all participants will actively engage in the event; the presentations (“sessions”) are interactive and created by the participants themselves. In the open “Barcamp” area, participants will organize completely free sessions. Moreover, the 5 central themes of atoms&bits Festival will be addressed and discussed in designated and curated rooms. Spatial proximity and thematic ties will ensure intensive crossover among these topics.

Join us and be party of a creative party! For now, go ahead and join the A&B mixxt network! It’s free!

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A 3D business card

Ok, now here we are with augmented reality, it is starting. We have the tools like webcams and Actionscript and in flow the impressive examples.

AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

You can try it too! Print this and go here and be amazed!

It’s done by James Aliban, an artist-developer-scientist who likes to experiment and build stuff with all sorts of hardware and flash. Here is how to build a multitouch screen very easily on your own. And he has many more examples.

(via Michael)

Update: Thanks to Konrad here is another augmented reality example by GE

The best Michael Jackson remixes

A true Stylewalker leans back. And waits and reads all the Michael Jackson posts and remixes and then selects the best for the reader. (the picture ist taken by the brilliant Ralph Uetzelhöffer who does very nice textportraits) Here we go:

LehtMoeJoe’s Beat it remix – in your face!

Bird Petersons Thriller remix – also very funky face

The Hood Internet / Ratatat Remix to Billie Jean – some kind of Roulé feely music sounds better with you’ish floor smoother

And finally a nice mash of “I want you back” with Lil’ Wayne (find more MJ mashs at Kickin Peanuts)

Boyz Noize – Eat it remix -heavy rock disco

Thriller Disco Tech Remix
– Prins Tomas space disco style, very close to the original

Louis La Roche Thriller remix
– another very compressed, tight floor filler with some fragments and happy moments

Thank you Hype Machine, Popwreckoning, Aimt.us, Chromekids