Bad at Sports » Technology http://badatsports.com Contemporay art talk without the ego Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BAS Panhandles, Will Work for iPads. http://badatsports.com/2010/bas-panhandles-will-work-for-ipads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2010/bas-panhandles-will-work-for-ipads/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:29:43 +0000 Guest Blogger http://badatsports.com/?p=15184 Memo: To Whomever It May Concern
Re: Acquisition of an iPad
From: The Bad at Sports Team

Okay, it has come to our attention that we can’t afford an iPad, either collective or individually. And while we are neither a formal non-profit at the moment, or a worthwhile cause, you can’t get help if you don’t ask.

We want an iPad(s). The art potential here is big big big! There is all sort of amusing shit we could do with one of those bad boys. We’ll take donations of any recent technology for that matter, computers, audio gear, advanced military weapon systems. Send us your working discarded wazmos. You’ll be contributing to … a cause, not a good cause mind you, but a cause none the less. And with the growing numbers of BAS folks with kids, or kids on the way, we surely could use some entertainment. If we’re jolly, we’re funnier, and who wants to listen to a bunch of cranky jerks. Well, you probably, as you are reading this instead of something meaningful, but you catch my drift.

Call our hotline (312) 772-2780 with details. And thank you!

Image below from lunchbreath (via).

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2010/bas-panhandles-will-work-for-ipads/feed/ 0 Beautiful Wearable Dress Has Over 24,000 LEDs http://badatsports.com/2009/beautiful-wearable-dress-has-over-24000-leds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/beautiful-wearable-dress-has-over-24000-leds/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:48:02 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=11759

The Galaxy Dress is the center piece of the “Fast Forward: Inventing the Future” exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The museum is celebrating its 75 years and has commissioned the GalaxyDress for their permanent collection.

The wearable dress made up of over 24,000 full color super thing LEDs, 4,000 Swarovski crystals & enough bateries to keep it on up to an hour at a time is something to be seen first hand and no photo or video recording does it justice. All this makes The Galaxy Dress the largest wearable display in the world.

Designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, the London-based design duo behind interactive clothing company CuteCircuit

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2009/beautiful-wearable-dress-has-over-24000-leds/feed/ 0 How Hard Is It To Make A Piano Speak Like A Human? Very. http://badatsports.com/2009/how-hard-is-it-to-make-a-piano-speak-like-a-human-very/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/how-hard-is-it-to-make-a-piano-speak-like-a-human-very/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:32:24 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=10308 How hard is it to make a Piano sound even remotely like a human voice? Well Austrian composer Peter Ablinger spent a few years to create a sound wave to note translation system that gets pretty close. The video is of the system in action reading text from the “Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at the 2009 World Venice Forum”. Watch and be amazed at just how many keys it takes in succession to even get close to a single human vowel.

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2009/how-hard-is-it-to-make-a-piano-speak-like-a-human-very/feed/ 0 Four 35ft Interactive Installation Art Screens Adorn Microsoft Campus http://badatsports.com/2009/four-35ft-interactive-installation-art-screens-adorn-microsoft-campus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/four-35ft-interactive-installation-art-screens-adorn-microsoft-campus/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:22:41 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=9962 Mode Studios designed and installed four 35ft long Interactive Installation Art Screens throughout the International Headquarters of Microsoft. The screen is made up of a horizontal series of hanging vertical tubes with LEDs built into them to create a solid image. The visual display is completely procedural without any prerecorded interactions or video. Everything that is shown is a byproduct of multiple variables from room traffic, weather, noise and heat in the focus locations in the room to create the movements or subjects on the screen with the potential of never showing the same interaction twice. The video of the installation is below and apart from the promotion hard sell it is a good example of art installation tech that is growing now.

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2009/four-35ft-interactive-installation-art-screens-adorn-microsoft-campus/feed/ 3 Entire City Rendered In 3D Using Nothing But Flickr Photos http://badatsports.com/2009/entire-city-rendered-in-3d-using-nothing-but-flickr-photos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/entire-city-rendered-in-3d-using-nothing-but-flickr-photos/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:09:22 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=9786 What was Archimedes famous quote? “Give me a place to stand to take enough photos and I can map the world” no but he might have

University of Washington’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory, the researchers who built a lot of the code that went into the original Microsoft Photosynth software, have devised new algorithms that take the existing ability to create a rough 3d map from multiple photos up by a order of magnitude. Now it not only can do basic depth perception and skinning with photos but create pinpoint 3d skeletons if given enough data to pull from. The uses and implications of this are vast.

We just need to use the v1.0 and start rendering gallery openings in 3d :)

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2009/entire-city-rendered-in-3d-using-nothing-but-flickr-photos/feed/ 0 A Touchless Rube Goldberg Performance Art Piece http://badatsports.com/2009/a-touchless-rube-goldberg-performance-art-piece/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/a-touchless-rube-goldberg-performance-art-piece/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:55:29 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=9721 Some people know a Rube Goldberg by the game Mousetrap but the idea is how can you take a simple action like turning on a lamp or closing a door and make it the most complicated elaborate and complex action posible where you still only do one human action and momentum takes care of the rest. Countless diagrams and art pieces have been made with that idea or goal in mind but what if you took it into the 21st century and made nothing touch from start to finish but used magents, RFID & fans to get the job done. Then you would have this:

Nearness from timo on Vimeo.

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2009/a-touchless-rube-goldberg-performance-art-piece/feed/ 0 Duncan MacKenzie, Hacker? http://badatsports.com/2009/duncan-mackenzie-hacker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/duncan-mackenzie-hacker/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:10:41 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=3458 ESPN Homepage Hack Screenshot

ESPN Homepage Hack Screenshot

It is unknown when exactly the hack was added but on Monday 4/27 it was discovered that entering the Konami cheat code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter) at the official ESPN Web site made glittery pink unicorns with rainbow manes and tails pop up all over the site. And more clicks led to more unicorns.

In addition to this visitors also got their headlines in hot pink and the Comic Sans font (every designers fav font).

We at Bad at Sports want to officially deny any rummer that Duncan MacKenzie was behind this in any way whatsoever. Yes we may be horrible at everything ESPN reports on and yes we all love some glitter loaded unicorns but that by no means implicates Mr. MacKenzie in this act. As for the mountain of MySQL & Javascript training books that were found at his residence after tracing an IP address to his billing address we have been informed to say “No Comment” and hope this suffices.

The hack has since been removed but Cnet caught a screenshot of it before the takedown.

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2009/duncan-mackenzie-hacker/feed/ 1 Advancements in TV Technology http://badatsports.com/2009/advancements-in-tv-technology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/advancements-in-tv-technology/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:41:11 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=2171

Yes it’s an official LG video, and yes it is a joke/viral campaign but imagine an engineers meeting where they would try to quantify “cuteness”.

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2009/advancements-in-tv-technology/feed/ 0 Still Alive Typography Video http://badatsports.com/2008/still-alive-typography-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2008/still-alive-typography-video/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:52:22 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=534

Portal – Still Alive typography from Trickster on Vimeo
Take one of the most originally passive aggressively humorous songs ever written for pop culture let alone video games and the set it to contemporary typography arrangements and you get something truly interesting.

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]]> http://badatsports.com/2008/still-alive-typography-video/feed/ 1 Art Instalation Reinterprets Voices Into Music http://badatsports.com/2008/art-instalation-reinterprets-voices-into-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2008/art-instalation-reinterprets-voices-into-music/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 04:32:57 +0000 Christopher http://badatsports.com/?p=309

From the website of the artist Ranjit Bhatnagar:

“Simple automatic instruments are constructed from local materials and objects on site. The system learns the sounds it can make by trying out its instruments, and then uses its range of sounds to try to reproduce the rhythmic and melodic qualities of sounds such as the voices of visitors. It then loops and alters these imitative sequences into improvised compositions. (That last part’s not done yet, so you won’t see it in the video.)

In this example, the source audio is a bit of the soundtrack from the movie Citizen Kane, and the noisemakers are a set of found object percussion machines and an electromagnetically fretted electric guitar.”

The tech is pretty basic and the conversion to music is largely straight forward but the presentation of the idea is pretty sharp. I would love to see how well the system works with a high noise to signal ratio. Can it only make “music” in a relatively quiet room of two people talking or can it eliminate some white noise to find the melody of a large conversation.

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