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By fabric | ch

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As we continue to lack a decent search engine on this blog and as we don't use a "tag cloud" ... This post could help navigate through the updated content on | rblg (as of 09.2023), via all its tags!

FIND BELOW ALL THE TAGS THAT CAN BE USED TO NAVIGATE IN THE CONTENTS OF | RBLG BLOG:

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Note that we had to hit the "pause" button on our reblogging activities a while ago (mainly because we ran out of time, but also because we received complaints from a major image stock company about some images that were displayed on | rblg, an activity that we felt was still "fair use" - we've never made any money or advertised on this site).

Nevertheless, we continue to publish from time to time information on the activities of fabric | ch, or content directly related to its work (documentation).

Via Creative Applications

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Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.

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If you want to know more about it (including to play RT in your browser with fractals), check the rest of the post on Creative Applications.

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I'm usually not a big fan of fractal visualizations, especially when they are used as visuals for techno parties... But this one is quite stunning and very close to what a fractal is: an evolving object with no defined scale, a very fascinating mathematical model. Big or small? A planet (Solaris ?) or a microbe? Living or dead?

Video via Beyond the Beyond

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For the pixel geeks. Clearly reminds me of the last Röyksopp video that showcased Space Invaders.

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Personal comment:

Just a funny way to pay tribute to old games and pixel's geeks, even if a bit overseen now...

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Via Archinect

Personal comment:

So to say, a bad score at the "Belin Block Tetris" game produces a Koolhaas, MVRDV (or Dutsch architecture) building. Just a Wink...

Calvin Harris performs his latest single, Ready For The Weekend, on a giant human synthesizer made of, er, pretty ladies...

Take 15 bikini-clad lovelies, paint them in special ink and put them in a dance studio with special conductive pads on the floor and, hey presto, you have the Humanthesizer.

To promote Calvin Harris's new single, Sony Music creatives Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne (who you may remember were responsible for the AC/DC ASCII Excel video last year) decided to use Bare Conductive, a technology developed by RCA Industrial Design and Engineering masters students Bibi Nelson, Becky Pilditch, Isabel Lizardi and Matt Johnson. Bare Conductive is "skin-safe, conductive ink". When painted on the skin, it allows a current to be passed through the body without causing an electric shock.

"We saw the technology on a blog initially, and then invited the RCA guys in to demo it to us," says Clandillon. "We asked if they would be up for doing a project together, and then it was a matter of waiting for the right artist / idea to come along."

The Humanthesizer consists of 34 pads on the floor which have been painted with the conductive ink and connected to a computer via some custom electronics created by the RCA's Matt Johnson. The performers stand on the pads, and touch each other on the hands or body to complete a circuit and trigger a sound.

Harris, his hands painted with the ink, played the main keyboard line and effects by interacting with a row of eight girls. The rhythmic portions of the track were played by seven dancers performing a carefully choreographed routine.

Clandillon explains how it all works in this video

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Via CreativeReview 

If you, like me, are not one of those 3,250,789 or 1,140,917 (revised version) online viewers who already watched "Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year", you will probably enjoy its huge amount of worldwide facts and its use of minimal infographic animation.

Watch the most recent, revised version of the video HERE. Does anyone know if there exists a high-resolution version?

The video, or at least its original concept, seems to originate from Karl Fisch. You can learn more on his blog about Version 2.0 and Version 1.0, which have a different visual quality.

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Via Information Aesthetics

Personal comment:

En dehors du côté "information in motion", quelques données intéressantes à connaître sur l'évolution de notre environnement contemporain (mais discutables?)