Archive for February, 2009

O’Shea Shines A Light

February 5th, 2009 by dermotoshea

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A new exhibtion at Dublin’s Science Gallery has a series of strange and interesting light shows. One of them by, Chris O’Shea , has an array of emergency beacon lights which interact with visitors, tracking their movements through the gallery. Another light exhibit somehow manages to change and adapt when you use your phone near them, different reactions for different phones. The exhibition runs at the Science Gallery until the 20th February 2009.

Esquire’s new cover star: Morph

February 4th, 2009 by andreab

Following the recent death of TV presenter and artist Tony Hart, one of his most famous creations, Morph, is to appear on the cover of the March issue of Esquire. And he finally has some clothes.

It’s actually Morph’s 30th birthday, which may make some of you feel extremely old.

To celebrate, Esquire and a team from Aardman Animations, which brought the original Morph to life on Take Hart, have given the little fellow a wardrobe by the likes of Burberry, Gucci and Prada – in plasticine, of course. Morph features on the subscriber cover and, with his old mate Chaz, on inside pages.

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Photosynth

February 2nd, 2009 by dermotoshea

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A gentleman called Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a video demo of Photosynth at a TED conference, he’s a bit geeky but this software is pretty dam clever. This software could transform the way we look at digital images.

Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds interesting dreamscapes and lets us navigate them. Essentially in the next few years all images published on the web will be linked. Also it may encourage searches on the web to be retrieved in a different format as opposed to the standard lists we see all the time.

Click here to watch a demo of Photosynth ››