Digital Graffiti at the Olympic Village from Alex Beim on Vimeo.
Live, interactive visualist performance has made its way to the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Thanks to Alex Beim for the tip.
Now, am I the only one watching pairs figure skating and wondering what an algorithm would look like that would generate those arcs? (If I get really advanced, I can start doing matrix transforms for a triple lutz-triple toeloop, but … that may require practice.)
Chairman Ting’s digital graffiti art performances at the Salt Building inside the Athlete’s Village were commissioned by The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) using Tangible Interaction’s unique digital graffiti wall technology.
Made with Open Frameworks
Music:
Holy Fuck – “Frenchy’s”URLs:
tangibleinteraction.com
chairmanting.com
vancouver2010.com/
openframeworks.cc/
Nice stuff. Let’s see, we could also get a visual code Olympics going someday. Then again, if you think the Vancouver opening ceremony had technical difficulties…
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Nice one Alex!
Speaking of figure skating and code…  <a href="http://;http://www.motiontheory.com/global/qt.embed.php?qt=450” target=”_blank”>;http://www.motiontheory.com/global/qt.embed.php?qt=450
There's also a massive DMX searchlight installation in Vancouver for the Olympics, which can be sequenced by anyone on the internet:
http://www.vectorialvancouver.net/home.html
Coding Olympics? Try a demoparty. Only in Europe though.
No, try getting out more..
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Funny My Bro was the Soundman for the Vancouver Olympics and I didn't see anything go wrong with the opening ceremonies. He's the TOP Soundman in the world…..