Dot. The making of.

Here’s a little film that takes you behind the scenes at Aardman. It reveals what went in to making the world’s smallest character animated film and how it was shot using a Nokia N8.

The main character Dot was only 9mm tall, and required to be 3D Printed in 50 poses.

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Fracture IO is a new form of Photo Booth, an installation to create generative, 3D animated artwork based on the form of the human body. This installation was unveiled at the One Show Awards celebration at the Bowery Hotel in New York recently…

Fracture IO lets users generate asbtract sculptures in real-time using what seems like a ‘standard’ photobooth, but it’s equipped with four Kinect cameras and custom software to take your photo as well as depth data from various angles. It then uses this to turn your human form into a huge polygon 3D mesh which creates a 3D sculpture with animations and shapes generated using the same algorithms behind crystal and organic growth seen in nature. Seriously abstract, but seriously cool… Everyone loves a photo of themselves.

Created by MPC.

http://vimeo.com/69341504

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James

Have you ever heard of a Moonshot? It’s the pursuit of not just the 10% better than everyone else, but the 10x better that what exists to date, a reach for glory through science and practicality. It’s not science fiction stuff, but it’s close.

And this is the next Google Moodshot. And it’s called Project Loon. An attempt to have a controlled network of Balloons sitting on the edge of space, delivering solar powered internet to everyone on earth, particularly those people in rural and remote areas, or to help fill in coverage gaps and bring people back online after disasters… Yes. Everyone on EARTH… Eventually. It’s just beginning, with a test in New Zealand, so jump in, follow it, and see where it goes. Is this Moonshot possible?

http://www.google.com/loon/

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James

To promote its mobile streaming services, Sky Go installed a special transmitter on a train window that allows it to ‘talk’ to people.

Dubbed ‘The Talking Window’, it releases “high-frequency vibrations” that are translated into sounds by the brain—imitating a ‘voice’ in the person’s head.

According to the video, it uses a technology known as ‘bone conduction’ and only the person leaning on the window will be able to hear the message.

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http://www.adverblog.com/2013/06/12/the-transformable-press-ad

Transformers toys have the ability to transform themselves and become something else to adapt to the situation. For example, they can become a car or a fighter jet. And now also a transformable print ad

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Points is an entirely new way to help people find where to go by serving up the best of what’s going on relative to where they are. It leverages content from Foursquare, Twitter, transportation APIs, RSS feeds and many other online sources, but more importantly it can be expanded to work with almost any online data source and adapt to any location where it’s installed.

More info at breakfastny.com/points>

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INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION BY BRIDGE AND PLATIGE IMAGE.

BIOSTAGOG – an interactive sculpture which combines algorithmic design, 3D printing, mapping and interaction, created jointly by Platige Image and Bridge.

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Kinetic sound sculpture in abandoned chemical tank

Swiss-based installation art studio studio zimoun in collaboration with architect Hannes Zweifel> created this automated architecture/instrument inside an abandoned chemical tank in Switzerland. Using a series of DC-motors to mechanically beat 329 cotton balls against the hollow drum of the tank. The results are both cacophonous and soothing in their consistency.

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Me and Sad Keanu: A 3D-Printing Story

It all began in June of 2010 when a photographer spotted Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich on a New York park bench. In one shot, Reeves looks dejected for reasons unknown. The image was metastatic: he was isolated from the original and pasted into new scenes all over the web. Sad Keanu was born, and then reborn, as a life-like 3D rendering.

http://mashable.com/2013/05/27/sad-keanu-3d-printing/

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keanu-is-sad-sad-keanu

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Love this — JWT designed a business card that doubles as a mini grater for Bon Vivant, a Brazilian shop specializing in cheese. Dubbed as the Grater Card, the business card is made of a light metal. It comes with a protective sleeve and can grate all kinds of cheese.

— Nate

http://www.designboom.com/technology/a-billboard-in-peru-creates-clean-drinking-water-from-the-air/

UTEC, the university of engineering and technology> in lima, peru has collaborated with mayo draftDCB to develop the world’s first billboard that can produce potable water from the air as a promotional admissions campaign. located in a region where rainfall is scarce year-round, but atmospheric humidity reaches almost 98% - the project provides residents with up-to 96 liters clean drinking water in reserve tanks situated in taps at the foot of the sign, instead of having them source hydration from polluted wells.

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As part of Disney‘s Star Wars Weekends event (running each weekend from May 17th to June 9th), it is giving fans the chance to put their face on a 3D printed Stormtrooper figurine. The D-Tech Me experience at Disney’s Hollywood Studios uses a high resolution single-shot 3D face scanner created by Disney Research labs.

http://www.psfk.com/2013/05/disney-3d-printed-star-wars-stormtrooper.html

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The Giro d’Italia is offering fans the chance to become part of the history of the Italian Grand Tour in 140 characters or less.

Lucky Twitter fans will have their tweets painted onto a key climb as a way to mark the 2013 Giro.

The messages, printed in pink, will remain as a legacy of the 2013 Giro d’Italia.

http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/news/42972/be-part-of-the-giro-d-italia-twitter-stage

http://www.gazzetta.it/Giroditalia/en/21-03-2013/giro-d-italia-world-first-the-montasio-twitter-stage-92599666900.shtml

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The Find Your Greatness film shows everyday athletes from around the world training, playing and competing, with the common thread that the locations featured are all called London. We first join a scene at “London Gym” where a man pumps out crunches during a workout, then go to a rugby match in East London, South Africa, where a boy breaks the line handing off a larger opponent. In Little London, Jamaica, a female boxer works the pads with consummate skill and precision. In London, Ohio, we see a close up of a focused young baseball player catch the ball and throw it to first base in one seamless action. While each athlete defines their own goals and success, they are all connected by a unifying sense of what greatness could be to them

— Nate

Hemoba Foundation (Blood Foundation) in Brazil partnered with Bahia football club Esporte Clube Vitoria to run “My Blood is Red and Black”, an award winning integrated advertising campaign. The state of Bahia was experiencing a shortage of blood. To raise awareness of this problem and increase the blood stocks, the popular football club changed the stripes of their iconic jerseys from red to white. The team only replaced the red on the jerseys stripe by stripe over the course of the season, as blood stocks rose.

#experience #campaign

— Nate