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It’s no secret that we’re fans of building façade projections here at Giz — I mean who hasn’t looked at the side of a skyscraper and imagined glass windows as pixels for a giant screen? That’s what Melbourne-based lighting director Bruce Ramus (of Opera House light projection fame) has done with Luminous: the 150m wide, four-storey tall interactive art installation in Darling Harbour, Sydney. The lights went on over the weekend and Gizmodo went along to check it out.
We’ve seen reversed brand logos before but not to the extent of these brand reversals by Graham Smith. He takes the original logo, colour and all, and swaps them out with a different brand name. What’s crazy is that though sometimes you don’t notice the difference, most of the times your brain gets so confused, you don’t even know what you’re looking at anymore.
The incredibly unique decorations were created by a Chicago-based design shop called
With the proper projector the world is your canvas. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 15 art installations painted in light…
At first glance, they appear to be aerial photos of congested cityscapes, but artist Hong Seon Jang‘s “Type City” is actually a micro-scale model metropolis made entirely of discarded letterpress typesets! [Inhabitat]
Starting with a rare vinyl model of the T-800 that was released in limited numbers after Terminator 2 hit theatres, Japanese artists at T-Studios created these wonderfully detailed chrome terminator busts, complete with light-up eyes and animated features. It’s the perfect reminder that mankind’s days are numbered.
It’s presented as archival footage of Tony Stark conceptualising and sketching the first Iron Man suit in ‘StarkPaint’ on his ‘Starkintosh’. But this lovely speed painting clip is actually Apple fanatic Matt Pearce working in MacPaint on a 1984 Macintosh.
Light painting is one of those magical photography techniques that never gets old. Fancy effects! And even… dresses? Mmhmm. Atton Conrad, an advertising and art photographer, used light painting to dress his models and make them look gorgeous.
