Dots and Thoughts

I came into the office today to find the design studio covered in a wall to wall pointillism like mural of Bert from Sesame Street and couldn't help to laugh at it. When I asked one of the talented designers who works in our studio where it came from they led me to this site: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Deep rooted in the digital art revolution the Rasterbator is a tool that creates huge, pixelated images from any picture. You can upload an image, crop/stretch it to the desired size, the tool will tell you how many pages you need to print the resulting multi-page pdf file then you can assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.

Digital Lenses

Minority Report has become reality with the development of DigiLens by SBG Labs Inc. This new optical device technology makes it possible to seamlessly layer virtual information over physical reality.

I don't quite understand all of the science behind how this really works but all I can this technology is pretty radical enabling us to enhance our world by seeing images: art or other in the context of what we see everyday.

False Mirrors - Jacob Kassay

Jacob Kassay's electroplated silver canvases look a lot like old worn mirrors but use today's technology to attain their appearance. If, like me, you have no idea what electroplating is, its a super cool process of plating that uses electrical current to reduce cations (positively charged ions) of a desired material to coat an object with a thin layer of the material, such as a metal. While electroplating dates back to the 1800s its a pretty new and inventive concept for art.

The plating concept burns the unpainted canvas, so at times the pieces look black and burnt on the corners. In several of Kassay's pieces the burn marks extend into the shiny faces of the panels giving them a mirror like appearance.

Joseph Wolin notes "The way that these thin silver surfaces delicately capture the traces of whatever stands before them evokes photography, with its light-sensitive emulsions of metal salts. But film photography as a technology has now been surpassed by digital—just as photography itself once usurped the province of painting—making Kassay's metal coatings feel like bronzed baby shoes, elegies to an unrecoverable past."