Just Watch These Videos:
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Tracking Your Fingers with the Wiimote
Foldable Interactive Displays
Special Thanks to Kurt Ralske for his help!
If you have access to a computer that has QuickTime Pro installed, AND if it’s possible for you to get a computer to play back your video file (instead of a DVD player), you can use QuickTime to present your video at high resolution.
STEP 1: Configuring your Quicktime Movie
1) Open your high rez video file in QuickTime Pro.
2) Press applekey-L to make it loop
3) Press applekey-J to open Properties window
4) click on “Presentation” tab
5) select “automatically play movie when opened” and “enter fullscreen mode when opened”
6) save video file
Now the movie will play fullscreen at full resolution when you click it, and will loop endlessly (or at least until the computer is shut down!)
STEP 2: Set your Mac to automatically play the movie
1) Go to System Preferences
2) Go to Accounts
3) Click on the Login Items tab
4) Click the + button and add the files to the window
5) Check the Item
Voila! Now everytime you turn on your computer the movie will automatically play the video in full screen mode and keep looping until the cpu die.
The most famous postwar logo without commercial purpose — or, at least, intended commercial purpose — the peace symbol, turns 50 on Thursday.
Half a century ago, a British textile designer came up with an idea for protest signs for a march on a nuclear weapons facility: they would be the size and shape of an extra-large pizza bearing nothing more than a upside-down V with line through the middle, rendered white on black and mounted on wood laths.
These “lollypops,” as the designer called them, would be lightweight and look great on TV, he said. Seen often enough, they would trumpet the message of nuclear disarmament without the need for cumbersome words.
Adopted with stunning speed by dozens of counterculture movements in the 1960s, its message expanded and now most people see it as a generic symbol of peace, adaptable to almost any pacifist cause.
Gerald Holtom’s pacifist credentials were well established by 1958 — born at the outset of the First World War, he was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, which he served out doing “useful work” as a farm labourer. He moved from designing textiles to sailboats before his death in 1985.
His symbol, he said, was a stylized version of two figures from the semaphore flag signalling system: flags held downward and diagonally away from the body (the semaphore signal for “N”) and flags pointing directly up and directly down (the semaphore signal for “D”). N and D for Nuclear Disarmament.
Read Original Article Here!
My “Because Washington is Hollywood For Ugly People” is gonna be in this show! You will see it on 4th Floor in a 42″ plasma. Here are the text from the New Museum:
“The final portion of “Unmonumentalâ€? will be presented online. “Montage: Unmonumental Onlineâ€? will feature works by an international group of fourteen emerging and midcareer artists who appropriate diverse material from the Web to create new Internet-based montage. Cutting and pasting, breaking apart and re-assembling, ripping and remixing, the participating artists extend the radical practice of collage to the Internet, demonstrating how previously tried techniques can engender rich, new artistic practices. Their works incorporate varied formal elements: digital images, sound, video, or code, and also recite fictions and fantasies found online.”
The Internet is a veritable theme park for commerce, popular entertainment, and self-marketing. Rather than dismiss this creative space for these reasons, the artists embrace these unique conditions. The logic behind the selection of the work argues that an artist’s engagement with this system and simultaneous refusal to entrench commerce is among the most powerful tactics available to them. The exhibition will be available online from February 15 to April 6, 2008 at rhizome.org/montage. Participating artists are:
Michael Bell-Smith
John Michael Boling
William Boling
Charles Broskoski
Jessica Ciocci
Petra Cortright
Chris Coy
Cao Fei
Kenneth Hung
Nina Katchadourian
Oliver Laric
Olia Lialina
Guthrie Lonergan
Paul Slocum
ARTKRUSH review by PAUL LASTER
“A master of cut-and-paste, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung creates savvy, supersaturated media works; his past projects include illustrations for WIRED magazine and the album cover of Felix da Housecat’s Devin Dazzle & the Neon Fever. Hung’s 2007 video Because Washington Is Hollywood for Ugly People takes a satirical look at American politics and pop culture, beginning with a “2008 Residential Erection Dance Off,” in which the recent round of presidential candidates — including a cheerleading John McCain and a three-headed Hillary Clinton robot — strut their stuff in the Oval Office. Because Washington then rollercoasters through the past decade, mixing celebrity with conflict as the Statue of Liberty flips the bird to the huddled masses, Osama bin Laden is martyred on a cross, and Karl Rove craps out a blundering Condoleezza Rice. It’s a dizzying but riveting ride, filled with Hung’s outrageous imagery, MC Paul Barman’s sarcastic narration, and John Blue’s scene-setting music.”
I know i should have post this earlier. After we came back we need to recuperate a bit and too many shit I have to take care of. Anyhow, Sundance was so fucking fun and I really enjoy all the positive energy of the festival. All the super hardworking super talented individuals I met gives me a big kick to think even more outside the box. Here are all the cool dudes and dudettes I met:
Chris Coy and Jillayne, the nicest couple in the world take us to eat the best pizza in SLC! Thank You So Much for your hospitality!!!
Morgan Spurlock, director of “Super Size Me”, cannot wait to see his new film “Where The World Is Osama bin Laden?”
Tamas Banovich from Postmasters Gallery (right) and Noah Vawter (left) the MIT phd genius who did the sound for “Gas Zappers”
Partying with Quentin for a whopping 10 sec, haha!
director Jason Reitman from “Thank You For Smoking” and “Juno”
From Left: Evan Roth (from Graffiti Research laboratory), Stephanie Rothenberg (from Invisible Thread) and James Powderly (from Graffiti Research laboratory)
Mr. Jon Bloom, super well-respected Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. He is also the chair of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch for OSCAR
Bayete Ross Smith (left) and Ryan Alexiev (right) from the Cause Collective doing the B-Boy post, too bad Jessica, Hank and Jorge are not in the pic.
John Cooper, Director of Festival Programming, Sundance
Super Stars from The Igar Yala Collective whose co-direct “The Wind and the Water”
Kenneth Bi, my fellow Hong Kong director of “The Drummer” that stars Jaycee Chan (Jackie Chan’s son) and Tony Leung
Ka-Fei.
Drew, our super handsome driver from Sundance
Zaza Buadze, writer of “Absurdistan”
Getting stoned (w/ springrolls) with Cheech Marin
Li Ying, fellow Chinese director of “Yasukuni”
Young and Noah (two poor sickies) feel better after eating at El Chubaso, THE BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT in Park City.
HERE ARE ALL THE FELLOW SHORTIES! SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST!!!
Fellow Shorties (from left): Leighton Pierce (”Number One”), Elizabeth, Tony Gault (”Count Backward From Five”) and Tamas
Fellow shorties: Andrea Fasciani (”Buyo”)
Fellow Shorties: Dee Rees (”Pariah”)
Too bad there are way more people I met that i don’t have the chance to take pictures with. Here I would like to give a special THANK YOU to all the Sundance Staff that help us out so much! Jamila Pierson, Rene, Todd Luoto, Virginia Piearce, Shari Frilot, Mike Plante, Tatiana Tensen and all other super cool people I am very sure we will see each other in different crossroads of our life!