Surreal architectural projection

Mark Dery points us to this mindbendingly amazing video of 1024 Architecture's "interactive architectural mapping" on a former theater in Lyon, France last year. The sounds of the audience controlled the visuals projected onto the building's façade. "Perspective Lyrique" (via Architizer)

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Anonymous

I was there, it was awesome. The whole “fÃªte des lumiÃ¨res” is really great. Every year, December 8, the whole city celebrates light!
relawson

really neat! – the audience controlled visuals.

not really neat! – putting your mouth on a mic that I saw lots of other people doing the same!!

hah!
thekinginyellow

i neither understand why this trend ever started nor why it continues to happen.

‘like, wow, let’s project a building onto a building and then have the building do stuff.’

maybe i’m just too dumb to figure out what the fascination with this architectural projection crap is…and i do motion graphics and design for a living!
- JPWatkins
  
  Perhaps the last vestige of any happy, innocent child in you has faded away?
- wrybread
  
  Do you see any irony to the fact that in this thread, 4th comment down, you told someone who didn’t like mashups:
  
  “If you don’t like it, get off of the internets. Personally i found this to be creative and entertaining. i love mpathg and fc thus i loved this mashup. well done!”
  
  So can we presume that you’ll be taking a little break from the internets today?
  
  On another note, does anyone have any clue what software they may have used to make this?
  - Anonymous
    
    “does anyone have any clue what software they may have used to make this?”
    
    Something like this for the projection:
    
    http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/03/projection-mapping-made-easy-with-free-mac-windows-projection-tools/
    
    … and the 3D software of your choice to build the videos.
Calsidyrose

I’m reading Cory Doctorow’s “Makers” right now. I’m not a major geek, just a long-time Boing Boing lurker (since 2000 via the web. Watching this, and seeing how people react in the video, I think Doctorow’s future is well underway.
NoctilucentStudios

Awesome. Why do I get the feeling though that something like this could never take place in America? Maybe it has and I just haven’t heard about it yet……just seems like the Government would find a way to connect it to “terrorists” or some such.

Oh and JPWatkins comment to the kinginyellow?

SNAP!!
- mccrum
  
  Sure it has, I’ve done something similar for last year’s Beaux Arts Ball in New York and MoMA had a laser light graffiti collective scrawl all over the outside a few years back. You just need permission and permit and I don’t think these guys were able to just set up a 10,000 lumen projector in the square and run power over to it without checking with the local authorities either.
  
  It’s just that most of the time here in the States we just don’t understand why someone would go through all the trouble just to make some art interesting without wanting to charge money somehow. :)
- ajs
  
  Can’t speak for the rest of America, but we did a shoestring version last month for a nuit blanche in Saint Paul:
  
  http://web.mac.com/asaboe/Andrew_Saboe%3A_Event_Design_and_Rendering_Services/Northern_Spark.html
  
  Small video on the second page. All done with 2D tools, due to lack of budget. It isn’t being terribly widely done, yet, on this side of the pond. But it is being done.
Anonymous

Just a small correction : the building is the ThÃ©Ã¢tre des CÃ©lestins, which is very much still in use as a theater.
jamdot

Here is a video of Android Jones doing digital mapping onto a performance artist…quite amazing stuff, beautiful to look at…

Part 1:

http://youtu.be/SpH1z4lWq1c

Part 2:

http://youtu.be/IjkNtr3Mgq4

Part 3:

http://youtu.be/M_r_pi_L75k
finette

Not a former theater, it’s still in use! Here’s the website: http://www.celestins-lyon.org/

I stayed in the HÃ´tel du ThÃ©Ã¢tre right on that square about ten years ago. It’s a pretty standard 2-star hotel, but each room was individually painted by art students. Judging by current pictures of the rooms on their website, they’ve since gone a bit more upscale but less interesting. :(
Fett101

Related, the latest Disney parks castle show does the same kind of thing. (to much better effect I think)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JUgeE1skTE
fergus1948

If you liked that…
…check out The 600 Years by the Macula. Absolutely astounding…
http://vimeo.com/15749093
thekinginyellow

@JP:
i think you’re right. i am a cranky old/young man.

@wry:
;) touchÃ©. i’ve been absorbed in some mind numbing cinema4d action all day and only online when i set up a render. i really should take a long interweb break for a week or more for a good digital cleansing. regarding your question about software there’s a company here in houston that does these types of projections called Texas Video & Post. they use flame so i would assume they either use maya or 3dsmax. if that answers your question.
zish

I can do without the constant hopping between camera angles in the video. I did not have a headache until after watching it.

The effect on the building is very cool, though.
- narddogz
  
  My thought as well. The over-editing distracts one from the subject of the video and prevents study and appreciation of any angle that is presented.
  
  Do we really need a demonstration of your l33t editing skillz when something as epic as this is going on?
  
  The video’s editor needs to take his/her ADHD medicine and chill a little.
Palomino

Much better BB post on the same subject:

boingboing.net/2010/10/13/beautiful-video-mapp.html

And-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9BgR-P5b4&feature=player_detailpage