Jan 7 2011

Pocket cinema: Arduino – documentary launched!

Documentary about Arduino by Rodrigo Calvo Eguren and Raúl Díez Alaejos announced on Body Pixel few months ago was launched 3 hours ago on Vimeo.

The film is in Spanish and English. It describes the beginning and community around one of the most intrigant and innovative piece of hardware for prototyping and DIY community around the globe – Arduino.

Embroidered Arduino Patches by Multilogica (c)
Photo taken from: King Talk

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Dec 12 2010

REFF Book, QR-Codes based publishing

Somewhere between the rows of the Art is Open Source project and FakePress are hiding the main suspects for launching the book ‘REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory‘.

It’s a project that aims to combine the world of augmented reality, QR-codes, data visualization and the art of reading on your standard silicon devices (computer with cam) and ‘new born friendz’ such as iPad, iPhone or Android phone.

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May 11 2010

Maker Faire’s eTextile Fashion Show

Body Pixel’s friend eTextile Fashionista or, as one blogger entitled her lately – Neuro Fashion artist, Lynne Bruning invites you to show your wearable technology work at the eTextile Fashion Show, which is going to be on view on 22nd of May in Fiesta Hall Stage, in San Mateo – California.

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Kristin Neidlinger: Galvanic Extimacy Responder

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Apr 10 2010

Interview with Lynne Bruning: Doing Groovalicious eTextiles!

Lynne Bruning is an award winning wearable artist, eTextile innovator and, as she likes to title herself, ‘a textile enchantress, lover of black sand beaches, tangerine bikinis and fast connections.’

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Synaptic by Lynne Bruning, photo: Carl Snider

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Mar 4 2010

Saso Sedlacek’s Origami Space Aircraft…

It’s already a known thing that artists are sort of explorers… and scientists as well… I’m not taking into perspective now Leonardo and his flying devices, although I could. Sometimes we like to play… When grown ups play, they usually do it passionate.

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Origami Space Race by Saso Sedlacek, taken from Kontejner

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Jan 3 2010

Body cinema: Renaissance Martial Arts, part 2

As you can see history has been pretty brutal in Renaissance too, compared to the dark Middle Ages. Let’s see where all these guys in tight pants, armor costumes with charming periwigs ended up…

renaissance_martial_art.jpgIllustration: Johannes Georg Paschen, 1659,  thehaca.com

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