FABRICATING THE REAL

The Man Who Prints Houses

2012-02-16T00:55:00.000Z

Trailer from Marc Webb on Vimeo.

Paper

2012-02-01T14:24:00.001Z

Un-cloud your files

2012-01-31T00:43:00.002Z

DEAD DROPS

Noemie Goudal's Photography

2012-01-28T15:07:00.001Z

Quantum, intelligence and biotech revolution

2012-01-27T01:02:00.001Z

Dr. Michio Kaku presents these three near-future phenomenons in a down to earth matter.Intelligence (1-6)Quantum (1-6)Biotech (1-6)

OMEGA Stop Motion film

2012-01-17T19:27:00.001Z

Beautifully atmospheric film mixing 3d CG with stop-motion/model-making.

OMEGA - TEASER TRAILER from Andy Goralczyk on Vimeo.

The Power of pre-fabrication: China builts 30 storey building in 360 hours

2012-01-17T16:23:00.010Z

Chris Burden's Metropolis II

2012-01-16T23:27:00.000Z

Horns Rev Wind Farm Denmark

2012-01-09T18:07:00.001Z

Clouds formed by the wake of the wind turbines
via the Guardian, via Aeolus Power

This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory

2012-01-07T20:20:00.002Z

The rest of the pictures from her blog can be found here.

Guy Laramee's Carved Landscapes

2012-01-06T18:11:00.000Z

Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste

2012-01-06T16:09:00.003Z

Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste

Guatemalan Sinkhole

2012-01-06T00:15:00.001Z

Automata by Levi van Veluw

2012-01-05T21:04:00.001Z

via NOTCOT

The Movie Set That Ate Itself

2012-01-05T16:25:00.002Z

Welcome to the world of Bang & Olufsen

2011-12-20T13:22:00.000Z

Nazca City Robot

2011-12-19T19:12:00.002Z

A autonomous robot that makes drawings in the sand only visible from the sky, mimicking the ancient Nazca lines.

Ping Pong Via The Flying Machine Arena

2011-12-15T18:38:00.002Z

Radiant City

2011-12-15T18:36:00.000Z

Fabricating the unrealsleep well

Flight Assembled Architecture

2011-12-15T18:29:00.001Z

Flight Assembled Architecture/Architectures volantes from FRAC Centre on Vimeo.

GE Factory Flyover

2011-12-15T17:56:00.001Z

Forest Installation

2011-12-15T15:43:00.000Z

Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi With Lights, Miniatures, and Imagination

2011-12-14T18:58:00.002Z

Term1 Crit - December 7th, 2011

2011-12-14T17:19:00.006Z

photos by tom svilans

Contour Crafting

2011-12-12T14:24:00.001Z

Ice Cube and The Eames

2011-12-12T14:07:00.001Z

Ferropolis

2011-12-12T13:24:00.002Z

"Ferropolis, "the city of iron" is an open museum of old huge industrial machines in Gräfenhainichen, a city near Dessau, Germany. It's an open air museum which contains machines from the mid-twentieth century. They can measure to 30 meters high, 120 meters long and weigh up to 1980 tons. Moreover, the area is used for several events like opera or music festival like the Melt! festival or the "Ferropolis in Flammen"." - Wikipedia

Flight Assembled Architecture 2

2011-12-04T23:44:00.002Z

Another video of the flying fabrication system developed by Gramazio and Kohler and Raffaello D'Andrea at ETH, with a further information available from the ETH website.

Some more interesting stuff coming out of Raffaello D'Andrea ETH research group

2011-12-04T17:07:00.001Z

Zimoun Sound Architectures Compilation

2011-12-04T09:43:00.000Z

Flight Assembled Architecture

2011-12-04T08:43:00.002Z

So here is the first actual preview of Gramazio and Kohler's lastest project currently on exhibit at FRAC Orleans. A series of flying robots that pick up and place polystyrene bricks to form a tower.

Large Hadron Collider

2011-12-02T13:41:00.001Z

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

The Slovenia Experience FPV

2011-12-01T15:52:00.002Z

Homemade Prosthesis

2011-12-01T15:50:00.000Z

Bone Printer

2011-12-01T09:41:00.001Z

Antique Stradivarius violin 'replicated' by radiologist

2011-12-01T09:40:00.001Z

Little Printer

2011-11-30T20:01:00.001Z

Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.

Semiconductor - 20Hz

2011-11-29T17:17:00.002Z

"20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception."

20 Hz from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Crystal & Flame

2011-11-28T13:59:00.002Z

2011-11-28T10:50:00.001Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWxR4qhSy-c&feature=player_embedded

http://www.fireflyexperiments.com/videos/firefly-kinect-head-tracking.html

I Am Cuba

2011-11-25T16:05:00.002Z

This is a film where the camera is constantly in motion, with sweeping balletic long takes, crane and hand held shots, tracking shots, including some over and down the side of buildings, through cane fields, into swimming pools, around packed night clubs, even hovering and moving along high over a street in the middle of a packed funeral procession - all without the usual cutting. I estimate the average length of a take in this film at about 2 - 3 minutes, a figure rare and astonishing these days, even with the benefit of steadicams - but jaw dropping given the still-unwieldy equipment they were surely using in 1964. In particular one or two large scale sequences must have taken days, if not weeks, to prepare, and presumably needed government marshaling to choreograph. (Ironically, whether or not the film makers intended it, the liberated camera work on display here reflects the notion of revolutionary freedom far more than the actual story vignettes.)

The film itself is shot in high contrast gleaming black and white, favouring wide angle lenses, and with a constant deep focus that reminded me of Greg Toland's work for Welles or some of James Wong Howes' work. Kalatozov's use of a handful of character 'types' throughout recalls Eisenstein's (and in fact there is a faint reference to his the Odessa Steps sequence in 'Battleship Potemkin' at one point when the revolutionary rioters march down some steps), but the effect here is far more sensual and lyrical. (Among the professional actors, Sergio Corrieri also appears in the better-known Memories of Underdevelopment). The film's 'artiness' is undeniably a distraction from the message of struggle, and to the original viewers the beautiful images must have been a long way from reality in the New Cuba.

(karagarga)

3D Holographic Gesture Recognition

2011-11-25T11:49:00.000Z

Robotic Ostrich

2011-11-20T17:49:00.000Z

Haptica Intelligensia

2011-11-15T20:56:00.001Z

Giant ant hill excavated and cast in concrete

2011-11-14T13:54:00.003Z

ISS Earth Time Lapse

2011-11-13T10:51:00.001Z

Low Definition Control

2011-11-12T16:37:00.002Z

"Low Definition Control" Teaser from Michael Palm on Vimeo.

Andrew Hessel

2011-11-12T03:14:00.001Z

Synthetic biology combined computational powers. 45 min of future lecture stuff

GoPano micro - 360 lens for iPhone 4

2011-11-10T10:31:00.000Z

Scanlab's Arctic Scans

2011-11-10T08:51:00.001Z

Ex-Unit 23 students, Matt Shaw and Will Trossell's company Scanlab have scanned parts of the Arctic for Greenpeace.

Max de Esteban's Proposition One

2011-11-10T08:47:00.002Z

Max de Esteban take's apart obsolete products photographs them and reconstructs them digitally with the photos
(Notcot.org)

16 Forms

2011-11-10T08:14:00.001Z

Douglas Trumb

2011-11-09T00:58:00.003Z

An insight in to Douglas Trumbull's mind, inventions and techniques

U23 BLOGS 2011-12

2011-11-08T22:23:00.004Z

Mihir Benodekar Y4
Behnaz Berengi Y4
Kevin Chen Y4
Stuart Colaco Y4
Jacob Down Y4
Meng (Henry) Liu Y4
Nurlina Marof Y4
Richard Northcroft Y4
Megan Passey Y4
Tom Svilans Y4
Chi Wai (Peaker) Chu Y5
Thais Espersen Y5
Thomas Harvey Y5
Birgir Jonsson Y5
Madhav Kidao Y5
Joseph Shaw Y5
Thomas Smith Y5

2011-11-08T11:37:00.000Z

Peter Jackson explaining how they film The Hobbit

2011-11-07T18:18:00.004Z

Really interesting insight into 3D camera setup and also the hand drawing of 3D storyboards

Mekkanika typeface

2011-11-05T13:21:00.002Z

Circular motion

2011-11-01T22:01:00.005Z

Tony Hill Films

2011-10-27T17:41:00.000+01:00

The Story Of Film

2011-10-25T18:11:00.002+01:00

Mind the commercials in the beginning.
A brief introduction to the 12 decades of film.

Interactive Fabrication

2011-10-24T23:05:00.000+01:00

Jem Cohen

2011-10-19T22:28:00.006+01:00

Jem Cohen films are attracting observations of the urban/city landscape[s].

Chain

Lost Book Found

find more in the tube....

Digital Rube Goldberg Machine

2011-10-19T11:55:00.000+01:00

Digital Rube Goldberg Processor from The Product on Vimeo.

Quantum Levitation

2011-10-18T17:41:00.000+01:00

Note By Note, Ben Niles

2011-10-18T16:13:00.003+01:00

Ben Niles

Arthur Ganson makes moving sculpture | Video on TED.com

2011-10-18T11:46:00.000+01:00

Arthur Ganson makes moving sculpture | Video on TED.com

The meaning of the Idea

2011-10-18T09:43:00.000+01:00

Brainstorm by Douglas Trumbull (1983)

2011-10-18T00:33:00.006+01:00

IMDB writes:
Everyone knows this was Natalie Wood's last film, and that some of her scenes were filmed after her death with a stand-in you only see from behind. Director Dondald Trumball, best known for his special effects work in Blade Runner, Close Enounters, a Star Trek, chose this time to build his story on plot and character development, a good choice given the enormous talent he had to work with.
Trumball's battle with studio execs to finish the film after Wood's death, rather than claim the insurance proceeds and call the film off, ended his career in Hollywood, but assured that this gem would not be lost. It is somewhat ironic that Natalie's swan song should be a sci-fi movie, since she was hardly known for work in the genre, but she brings a grace and charm, as well as depth and beauty, to the genre that is usually lacking.

Most sci-fi films based on technology don't age well, and there are times where this is no exception. The idea of recording on tape, let alone making tape loops, must seem like wax cylinder recordings to today's MP3 generation. The tapes themselves were props borrowed from a film being shot nearby, and that film was itself a dismal failure. But the concept is timeless, and so well done that, all in all, the film still works as well as it did in 1983.

2011-10-17T17:59:00.000+01:00

Two Nuns Bike by Ron Arad

2011-10-16T21:32:00.000+01:00

Two Nuns Bike by Ron Arad from Dezeen on Vimeo.

Real Steel - Official Main Event Featurette [HD]

2011-10-16T00:33:00.000+01:00

Mars Rover's Eye View of Three-Year Trek on Mars

2011-10-15T19:47:00.000+01:00

Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

2011-10-15T08:27:00.000+01:00

London Hackspace

2011-10-14T08:26:00.002+01:00

This place is an interesting resource in london that provides facilities and workshops on all kinds of topics about hacking machinery, electronics etc. They have their own laser cutters, electronics bays, and workshop.

ANT FARM

2011-10-13T23:16:00.002+01:00

"The Eternal Frame is an examination of the role that the media plays in the creation of (post) modern historical myths. For T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm, the iconic event that signified the ultimate collusion of historical spectacle and media image was the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. The work begins with an excerpt from the only filmed record of Kennedy's assassination: Super-8 footage shot by Abraham Zapruder, a bystander on the parade route."

also other really interesting film by same group + Alva Altos Doc is worth watching

Philipp Schaerer

2011-10-13T22:27:00.000+01:00

Swiss architect exploring "image-made" architectures using Photoshop and photography.

Taryn Simon, The Innocents

2011-10-13T22:23:00.002+01:00

http://www.tarynsimon.com/works_innocents.php

The Innocents documents the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. At issue is the question of photography's function as a credible eyewitness and arbiter of justice.

Stanley Kubrick's Boxes

2011-10-13T19:03:00.002+01:00

Nice documentary about Kubrick's obsessive working methods, and the vast archive of research (and just pure eccentricities) he left behind stored in boxes on his estate.

3DS MAX Point Cloud

2011-10-13T13:58:00.001+01:00

Free plugin download for 3DS Max for 3D Scanning files.

Archive of Goodies

2011-10-13T13:56:00.002+01:00

An online archive of film of many various artist and architects. An archive of inspiration.
Ubu web has an extensive archive-database of film, sounds, writings, papers and lots more.

UBU-WEB
Wikipedia

Cities at Night

2011-09-25T20:43:00.000+01:00

SOLAR SINTER

2011-07-12T12:53:00.001+01:00

"German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert"

Read more HERE and watch the video HERE

3D printed strandbeest

2011-05-02T11:21:00.001+01:00

here

New Lexus Carbon Fibre Loom

2011-03-21T21:03:00.003Z

Highly complex multi-faceted columns

2011-03-01T17:15:00.003Z

An excessive use of the laser cutter but incredible:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663306/the-worlds-most-complex-architecture-cardboard-columns-with-16-million-facets#1

sculpture on the iplayer

2011-02-23T20:06:00.009Z

Some essential viewing on BBC's iplayer, relating to sculpture.

force of nature: david nash

how to get a head in sculpture

romancing the stone: the golden ages of british sculpture

1. masons of god

2. mavericks of empire

3. children of the revolution

Thanks Eman!

2011-02-18T22:56:00.010Z

For me, architecture gets really exciting when people start borrowing technologies from other disciplines, and incorporate them into projects. This japanese company has milled an aluminium motorbike helmet from a solid block of aluminium on their dynamic 5 axis machine- pretty sweet motion, and hopefully a flavour of things to come in the B... a lot of ally swarf left over though..

Design Ecologies - Shaun Murray

2011-02-14T01:11:00.006Z

New journal edited by Shaun Murray - may already be available at the AA bookshop.

video from related conference here (inc. liquid factory...)

"Design Ecologies foregrounds the inextricable connection between human communication and ecological accountability in architectural design. This burgeoning field has the potential to become a far-reaching discipline, bonding a community that crosses over into and out of architecture, environment, interaction, urbanism, and performing arts and communication.

Through original design exploration ranging in scale, the journal will proffer a critical vision towards the built environment, and promote ecological transitions within local and global contexts. It will challenge the everyday emerging practices of architectural design by offering a transdisciplinary framework for design production."

the witching hour: darkness and the architectural uncanny

2011-02-01T15:03:00.002Z

here - thankyou alex

adaptive architecture conference

2011-01-24T22:14:00.006Z

Forthcoming conference on Adaptive Architecture at the Building Centre, 3rd-5th March 2011. Featuring Chuck Hoberman keynote speech, plus much more. Coincides with their Living Form exhibition which sounds pretty essential.

tumblr city

2011-01-13T20:48:00.011Z

theransomprocess - Jose
projektion - Thias
variabledimensions - Emma
madhavkidao - Madhav
makedrawsleep - David
peakerpeaker - Peaker
michelleflam - Michelle
deepwrecks - Biggie
tmhrvy - Tom
jefffab5 - Jeff
danielgoodacre - Dan G
tekton2000 - Thomas
heathermacey - Heather

Freeze Frame

2010-11-22T10:12:00.000Z

‘the silhouette of a foreground object in a video frame is subtracted from
the background and used as a two-dimensional slice. at user-defined intervals new slices are captured and displaced
along the depth axis. the result is a three-dimensional model defined by silhouette slices over time.’

For the full article click here
For more 'fabrication-innovation' click here

"a delirious sprawl of artificially enlarged sandstone caves"

2010-11-19T19:57:00.001Z

Underground laser scanning in my hometown. Enjoy!

More info on the Nottingham cave survey can also be found here

geometric death frequency-141

2010-11-10T16:28:00.002Z

Federico Diaz: Geometric Death Frequency-141-spot from federico diaz on Vimeo.

running from october 23 until the end of march 2012, MASS MoCA will be exhibiting geometry death frequency – an external sculpture by frederico díaz. the scuplture is an aggregation of 420,000 black spheres – precisely milled glued and assembled by a team of robots and mechanical assembly lines (of which process can be seen below in the clip).

visually, geometric death frequency-141 combines diaz’s interest in the built environment, deep natural forces such as cellular growth, physics and fluid dynamics to create a massive wave confined within an invisible 50 by 20-foot tank that penetrates the wall of MASS MoCA’s lobby from the exterior of the museum’s main entrance courtyard. as the wave hits imaginary boundaries, it splashes back and up as high as the second storey galleries of the museum,

architecture critic and curator jeff kipnis calls diaz’s work “re-origination,” comparing it to the making of a book into a film. in one sense the film represents the book, yet does so in an entirely new medium, and through this becomes something completely different.i n the case of geometric death frequency-141, the “book” is a digital photograph of the museum’s clocktower entry courtyard as taken by the artist, which the artist then transforms into pure data, and modulates using analytical and fluid dynamic modeling techniques, finally rendering the data stream into a three-dimensional sculpture using state-of-the-art computer-aided manufacturing methodologies. the new work thus combines elements of photographic manipulation, data analysis, and computer programming, utilizing new techniques to produce a sculpture completely untouched by human hands.

check the wired site for further slides and the geometric death frequency-141 page @MASS MoCA

Piranesi in Venice

2010-11-06T21:54:00.010Z

We caught a brilliant exhibition of prints by Piranesi at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, supplemented by some fantastic three dimensional representations of his designs courtesy of Factum Arte and a sub-exhibition of Gabriele Basilico's comparative photography.

Manipulative Complexity of Lower Paleolithic Stone Toolmaking

2010-11-06T21:32:00.005Z

Brief Guardian article about the simultaneous evolution of tools and language, based on research using digital capture of analogue modes of making. Original research paper here.

Hands at the Wellcome too.

Fresh Back from our Road Trip

2010-11-06T21:21:00.006Z

45°45'04N 11°54'48E
45°51'17N 11°52'53E
45°26'22N 10°59'17E
43°49'54N 11°09'25E
43°46'42N 11°15'35E
45°01'57N 07°40'02E

and much much more...

Shadow Catchers at the Victoria and Albert

2010-11-06T21:09:00.006Z

Looking forward to checking this at the V&A.

Fabricate Conference

2010-10-03T10:19:00.009+01:00

"FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation.

Discussion on key themes will include: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities, the difficult gap that exists between digital modeling and its realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts."

Plenty more info here: http://www.fabricate2011.org/