Yeah, but does it move me?
Chat bots were a big thing in the early 2000s but now they’re mostly just annoying things on Twitter. Not so with Send Me SFMOMA, text this bot for some great art. You let it know what you’re looking for and it will send you a surprise.
How do you capture a feeling? Art does a really good job at it, we paint things that invoke feelings but how do we literally represent the feeling themselves? Random Quark used technology to create paintings of the way people were feeling in the Art of Feeling, a cool tech assisted art project.
The night sky is ever changing. Depending on where you are, what time of year it is, it’s is always a slightly different picture, for everyone. Capture the stars from the nights that mean something to you with The Night Sky, the print of your personal magic night.
Relaxing under the stars sounds like a magical way to spend the evening. Of course, then you would have to be outside and that’s not always possible. If you want that star look but inside the comfort of your own room, check out the Glow in the Dark Canopy.
We’ve seen pens that have conductive ink, wallpaper that can be used to design your own moving wall based play zone and now we’re looking at Electric Paint, the black paint that lets you paint circuits and sensors on whatever you want.
Our mobile landscape has a certain look about it. A certain cohesiveness that signals we are using apps that were built in the modern age. Built to be pleasing to the modern eye. But what if instead it was more functional and basic? Welcome to Brutalist Redesigns, the art project that gives apps a Brutal makeover.
There is a legion of beautiful art out there in the world, much of it is placed in museum collections that are accessible to the public. That is of course if you can get to the museum in question. Can’t make it to the Louvre? No problem, Google has your back with its update to art searching.
Natural things add a touch of warmth to homes but the problem with things from nature is that they tend not to be as permanent as we like. No worries with the Dandelion Mood Light, this beautiful puff of wishes will never, ever blow away.
Conductive ink is a really fun way to make your paper creations responsive, taking them to the next level of enjoyment. Put lights on your house drawing, make your windmill turn, whatever you can dream of. Conduct is the project that turns the wall itself into a responsive experience.
Twitter has given us many memorable gems of 140 characters or less. Some of which I’m sure many people would rather had been lost to time. You can help immortalize them forever in your home with Framed Tweets, memorable tweets, framed.
We mostly use calendars to keep track of important dates so we don’t miss our appointments. Most of us have our phones or outlook calendars for that. This really isolates us from the passing of time however. Get back in touch with the ever-flowing river of time with the Small Perpetual Calendar.
Drawing is hard, tracing is a lot easier. If you’re drawing something on the smaller end of the scale, tracing is an option but it’s not always accessible for large scale projects. SketchAR helps you trace anything on any size and all you need is a smartphone.
Remember the 80s and how awesome the Lite-Brite was? They still make those but if you want to bring pixel art to the current century, the PIXEL is a LED light frame that will display a number of beautiful works, even the ones you make yourself.
So paint isn’t usually something to get worked up over, especially not black paint. But this paint is special. This is BLACK 2.0, the world’s mattest, flattest art material. Which is to say, if you want to paint something really black, this is the stuff you need.
We can all use a little culture in our life from time to time. Poets have been sharing their words of wisdom for centuries and thanks to modern technology, you can get them all in one place. Using the Poetry from the Poetry Foundation app, find the prefect words for every occasion.
