The Staufenberger Repository

Vinyl Video

Not sure what it means - beyond questioning our need for continual technological progress, perhaps - but this art project made us smile. (It's a few years old so apologies if you've seen this elsewhere).

What is Vinyl Video? Exactly what it says: willfully lo-fi video pictures from vinyl records, of course.

Invited artists, including video art heavyweight Nam June Paik, have contributed pieces to showcase the patented Trashpeg technology. You can find a bit more background here.

Because it's a few years old, the web-based video of artist's contributions is not brilliant. But this infomercial is a good place to start:

Sehr gut, ja?

Via Schulze & Webb's Pulse Laser.

Light pen art

This is from Pikapika out of Japan. It's basically light pen based long exposure stop-frame animation (shot in the low light of course). Nothing more to say except that it delivers amazing results. There has been quiet a bit of of excitement about this for a while now so it shouldn't be too long before we see it put to use in an ad if it hasn't been already.

via: http://zeroinfluence.wordpress.com/