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This year
Niagara Falls - Dewatered American Falls (1969)
encore une relle fiction ou une fictive realiteSunday November 13th 1966 – the first man-made dewatering of the American Falls took place in order to allow workmen to clear debris from the upper American channel above the American Falls.
3D secret – hidden pictures
my virtuality is shinier than my reality.Beautiful new exploratory game for the Nintendo DS, that uses the front-facing camera and face tracking to calculate a perspective that renders like a window on a new world.
Roomba, Economics and Long-Exposure Photography | signaltheorist.com
Now here’s something interesting, I set up a photo camera in my room, turned out all the lights and took a long-exposure shot of my roomba doing it’s thing for about 30 minutes. The result is a picture that shows the path of the roomba through it’s cleaning cycle, it looks like a flight map or something. It really hits every spot!
Fundament – Financial data sculpture / anfischer.com
Mapping of the world gross domestic product 2007
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2009
« Images d’architecture et imaginaires photographiques » | L'Atelier des icônes
En conservant la structure des dossiers, enrichie d’une information contextuelle précise, l’une des belles démonstrations qu’apporte ce travail est de montrer combien le document photographique constitue la trace, moins du réel ou de la vérité des faits, que des déterminations imposées par les circonstances de la commande. Ce que la photographie constitue, dans chacun des contextes explorés, est très précisément la fiction attendue par le commanditaire.
Humanising data: introducing “Chernoff Schools” for Ashdown – Blog – BERG
For a little while I had been taking pictures of objects, furniture, buildings and other things in my environment where I recognised, however abstract, a face.
Germany's bald bears: Fur disease afflicts Dolores and baffles vets | Mail Online
Survivor Samoa!
writing | ben fry » Transit Trekkies
“They actually … attempted to downplay what the existing control center looks like, because they wanted to make it look real to the average eye as compared to… we’re pretty Star Trekky up in the new control center now.”
Noteboek on Vimeo
Noteboek (English title: Notebook) consists of 4 short experimental films where I try to confuse the reality.
In these films, illusions and expectations are challenged.
Pretend Office (Phil Gyford’s website)
With no planning, we all started acting as if we were people in a real office. Almost immediately we began to adopt characters and send officious announcements. Soon we were referring to characters in the office who didn’t exist in real life. Meeting rooms were booked, couriers arrived, servers went down, timesheets were requested, and embarrassing emails were accidentally sent to everyone in the company.
2008
MIT developing super-realistic image system - MIT News Office
La réalité est ce que l'on ressent…By producing "6-D" images, an MIT professor and colleagues are creating unusually realistic pictures that not only have a full three-dimensional appearance, but also respond to their environment, producing natural shadows and highlights depending on the direction and intensity of the illumination around them.
Part of Olympic display altered in broadcast - Gadgets- msnbc.com
Part of the elaborate Olympics fireworks show broadcast to the world in the opening ceremony was altered, done digitally in 3-D computer graphics, according to several news reports.
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Pixel Pour (By Kelly Goeller)
A wonderful instance of hybrid realities. Here, of course, the pixels are materialized through some medium that is not electronic and the hybridity is more about a semantic cross-over from pixel worlds of electronic games to the real world.
HNE Castings
2007
Menudo – Sneak Peek 103
