In the 1920s, Aby Warburg (1866–1929), the scholar of art and culture, created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne tracing recurring visual themes, gestures and patterns across time, from antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond to contemporary culture. At HKW all 63 panels of the Atlas will be reconstituted for the first time from Warburg’s original, partly multi-colored images.
John Was Trying To Contact Aliens
John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space.
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens | Official Trailer | Netflix
Very Slow Movie Player
Bryan Boyer has built a device he calls a VSMP (Very Slow Movie Player). It’s an e-paper display that shows a movie not at 24 frames/sec but at 24 frames per hour.
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Shooting Masks onto People’s Faces
Dedicated to all the “maskholes” out there…
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Man walks around like he’s in a video game
“In this video, @KaoruGans0 walks around Shibuya like a character from a video game: stilted and repetetive pacing; sliding oddly along walls; and interacting robotically with landmarks, conspiciously obvious items and other people.”
渋谷でゲームあるある再現してみた pic.twitter.com/dk5KH6kUgM
— がんそ【駒沢アイソレーション】 (@KaoruGans0) August 5, 2020
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Nostalgy stuff
Theirtube
WindowSwap
Open a new window somewhere in the world. Simple, amazing project.
Real Life Time Machine
Man wears cameras for an entire year in order to revisit any past moment in VR. Not exactly a time machine, but close enough.
The Clay Man
In this footage, artist William Cobbing wears a giant ball of clay on his head. He slices off layers with a wire to reveal a gooey, dripping face.
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