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  • Sky Orchestra balloons serenade London – video | Culture | guardian.co.uk
    "Seven hot air balloons, each with speakers attached, took off at dawn and flew across the capital. Each balloon plays a different element of a musical score, together creating an expansive audio landscape." Marvellous.
    (tags: balloons music ambient cities )
  • One of our islands is missing | Art and design | The Guardian
    "It was supposed to be a £12,000 art project in which a helium-filled sculpture of a desert island floated eerily above the heads of spaced-out festival-goers. It has become instead a £12,000 art project in which a helium-filled sculpture of a desert island floats somewhere through the troposphere without anybody actually seeing it, or even knowing where it is." Awesome but sad all at once; and yet, expensive or not, it feels like a genuinely valid affordance of the art. Oh well.
    (tags: art islands movable balloons )
  • skate through nyc with a gopro « mareadyphotography’s blog
    "the footage gopro cameras produce is fantastic and i’ve seen some crazy stuff filmed with a gopro, but i think i found it’s achilles heel – my skateboard." The camera may be dead, but the footage is ace.
    (tags: video skateboarding nyc camera )
  • Beware of the Sorrell: Everybody Is A Game Designer
    "Children will turn anything into a toy, any toy into a game and any game into a story. Adults do just the same thing, they just don’t do the noises. At least not when anyone’s looking." Yes. (Also: Sorrell is blogging. This is good.)
    (tags: marksorrell toys games stories play )
  • Ciudad Nazca, the robot tracing a city in the desert – we make money not art we make money not art: Ciudad Nazca, the robot tracing a city in the desert </MTIf>
    "Artist Rodrigo Derteano's autonomous robot plows the desert ground to uncover its underlying, lighter color, using a technique similar to the one of the Nazca lines, the gigantic and enigmatic geoglyphs traced between 400 and 650 AD in the desert in southern Peru. Guided by its sensors, the robot quietly traced the founding lines of a new city that looks like a collage of existing cities from Latin America." Oh gosh this is awesome.
    (tags: robots nazcalines cities deserts art automatons robotsareourfriends )

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