Comments on: Surreal architectural projection http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 02:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: mccrum http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159953 mccrum Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159953 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. :) 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. :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159719 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159719 I was there, it was awesome. The whole "fête des lumières" is really great. Every year, December 8, the whole city celebrates light! I was there, it was awesome. The whole “fête des lumières” is really great. Every year, December 8, the whole city celebrates light!

]]> By: relawson http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159720 relawson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159720 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! 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!

]]> By: thekinginyellow http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159732 thekinginyellow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159732 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! 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!

]]> By: Calsidyrose http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159741 Calsidyrose Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159741 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. 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.

]]> By: JPWatkins http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159747 JPWatkins Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159747 Perhaps the last vestige of any happy, innocent child in you has faded away? Perhaps the last vestige of any happy, innocent child in you has faded away?

]]> By: NoctilucentStudios http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159756 NoctilucentStudios Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159756 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!! 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!!

]]> By: wrybread http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159761 wrybread Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159761 Do you see any irony to the fact that in <a href = "http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/30/fight-shrub.html#comment-1152722">this thread</a>, 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? 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?

]]> By: narddogz http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1160022 narddogz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1160022 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. 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.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159777 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159777 Just a small correction : the building is the Théâtre des Célestins, which is very much still in use as a theater. Just a small correction : the building is the Théâtre des Célestins, which is very much still in use as a theater.

]]> By: jamdot http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1160548 jamdot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1160548 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 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

]]> By: finette http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159788 finette Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159788 Not a former theater, it's still in use! Here's the website: http://www.celestins-lyon.org/ I stayed in the Hôtel du Théâtre right on that square about ten years ago. It's a pretty standard 2-star hotel, but each room was <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/en6xJvIsQ-_QrX_Aq8OA2Q?feat=directlink">individually painted</a> by art students. Judging by current pictures of the rooms on <a href="http://www.hotel-du-theatre.fr/chambres.php">their website</a>, they've since gone a bit more upscale but less interesting. :( Not a former theater, it’s still in use! Here’s the website: http://www.celestins-lyon.org/

I stayed in the Hôtel du Théâtre 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. :(

]]> By: Fett101 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159792 Fett101 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159792 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 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

]]> By: fergus1948 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159795 fergus1948 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159795 If you liked that... ...check out The 600 Years by the Macula. Absolutely astounding... http://vimeo.com/15749093 If you liked that…
…check out The 600 Years by the Macula. Absolutely astounding…
http://vimeo.com/15749093

]]> By: thekinginyellow http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159821 thekinginyellow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159821 @JP: i think you're right. i am a cranky old/young man. @wry: ;) touché. 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. @JP:
i think you’re right. i am a cranky old/young man.

@wry:
;) touché. 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.

]]> By: ajs http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1160077 ajs Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1160077 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. 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.

]]> By: zish http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159851 zish Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159851 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. 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.

]]> By: Palomino http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159903 Palomino Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159903 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 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

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/11/surreal-architectura.html#comment-1159926 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159926 "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. “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.

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