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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Lizards
This video series by Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, made while self-isolating because of COVID-19, is amazing. Be sure to check the other episodes too.
Using Red Dead Redemption 2 to hold conference calls
“Zoom sucks, we started having editorial meetings in Red Dead Redemption instead. It’s nice to sit at the campfire and discuss projects, with the wolves howling out in the night”.
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Copy & Paste Reality
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic“.
The Drone is the message
“These flying computers are hybrid devices, somewhere between tool and transmission apparatus, that physicalize networks while rendering our relationship to them both radically more embodied and disembodied at once. Like a hammer or lathe or remote control, the drone is an extension of our very being, and their presence is reshaping not just how the world functions but our very cognition”.
The Great Wave
Zoombot
Bosch IRL
An amazing photographic reenactment of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (with naked cats)
The Wrong TV
New online tv platform for digital art, music & culture, 24/7 free live streaming
Covid Pause
If you need to take a break from all the Covid related news, here is a browser extension by artist Kyle McDonald. Covid Pause.
Human Computers: RR63+WP.png
“Human Computers: RR63+WP.png” is an installation/performance by Jeff Thompson that opened at Locust Projects in Miami last weekend. Over the course of six hours, 13 performers slowly decoded a single PNG file entirely by hand using only pencil and paper worksheets.
Sleep performances on Tik Tok
Kids on TikTok are live streaming themselves sleeping. Andy Warhol who?
Google Maps Hacks
Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert:
“99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic.”
7/11
Conceptual art at its best!
Popcorn
Anatomy of an AI System
“At this moment in the 21st century, we see a new form of extractivism that is well underway: one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and the deepest layers of human cognitive and affective being. Many of the assumptions about human life made by machine learning systems are narrow, normative and laden with error. Yet they are inscribing and building those assumptions into a new world, and will increasingly play a role in how opportunities, wealth, and knowledge are distributed.”