Wassup 2008 “Wassup 2008” was directed by Charles Stone III, It features Stone and several of his childhood friends – Fred Thomas, Paul Williams, Terry Williams, and Kevin Lofton. From Facebook.com: http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn#/group.php?gid=32436522444 “Wassup 2008†commercial spent around around $6500 according to Stone. All of the people that participated where volunteers and all sets where obscure […]
A few Months back in a cold March day, I bought my MacBook Pro. Immediately after the purchase (approximately 10 min) my laptop’s “i” fell out! At this moment I knew that my agony had just begun. Fast forward to this Sunday and the Mac does not fail to be a pain in the funny […]
We are making some good progress on the circuit for the Pianocktail. It may all look like a bunch of components thrown together (which they are) but they are working in semi-harmony. This is an image of the circuit: I got stuck trying to make the 11 shift registers work, it seems that I was […]
Its done! Jim’s WAMI dome is ready to be showed and played! check it out: Jim’s WAMI Dome from Oscar G. Torres on Vimeo.
How do you know what key a person pressed on a piano, and then translate that information on to making a cocktail? Our approach to the first part of that question is making a circuit that has 88 input switches to detect every single key in the piano. This is what the circuit is looking […]
Light Chimes by Jason and Oscar from Oscar G. Torres on Vimeo Jason Krugman and I decided to make this quick installation to see if our vision of a light installation controlled by Jason’s “Light Chime” switch system. The circuit worked like a charm. We are planning to let people play with it at this […]
If Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata was a cocktail, what would it taste like? Oscar Peterson’s “Tenderly”? Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Great Balls Of Fire”? The painocktail exists in a world of contradictions and exceptions where music and liquor are in harmony with mood and nothing is as it seems. It conveys a capricious indulgence and a merging […]
The video above is a good example of a creation that lets a person express them selves musically using voice and body gestures. I am a little puzzled by the “Performance” aspect of this new instrument or interface. I feel that a successful performance should have more visual action along with the audio. Visual actions […]
Scribble, a performance by Golan Levin, Gregory Shakar and Scott Gibbons at Ars Electronica Festival 2000, reminded me of an old cartoon I used to love. The Robotech Saga includes a group of characters called the Robotech Masters who made clones that where used as soldiers for the intergalactic war to gain supremacy of the […]
How does a famous artist make art work with out disturbance? How does someone become famous? These are the questions addressed by Banksy and a fellow ITPer David Steele Overholt. Banksy’s identity may never be known. So how does he go about making a mural in a corner street wall in NYC to promote his […]