Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Wii Balance Board




"The Wii Balance Board is a pressure sensitive, wireless balance board that is placed on the floor so someone can stand on it in front of the TV while playing special video games. The Wii balance board senses weight and shift in balance in any direction, and so by simply standing on the Wii board during activities allows players to follow along to movements ensuring they have control of the on-screen activities."

Monday, April 28, 2008

D-BOX Motion Code™

" D-BOX Motion Code™ is sophisticated, groundbreaking technology that creates real-life motion perfectly synchronized to on-screen movie and gaming action.

All the motion is encoded frame by frame by a skilled D-BOX motion artist. It is NOT activated by bass sound, nor does it simply tilt and pivot.

With approximately 24 frames per second and 124 programmable movements per frame, encoding a film demands endless hours of creative input and exploration by our motion artists. They currently have a data bank of over 4000 subtle – and not so subtle – movements and are creating new ones with each new movie title..."

http://www.d-box.com/2008/mfx.html

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Jeppe Hein's "Moving Walls" (2001)

"Everything is in motion, everything is changing, everything is being transformed and yet nothing changes." Jean Baidrillard

Chris Burden's The Flying Steemroller (1996)

Cunningham's "Antic Meet" (1958)

Friday, April 25, 2008

Aesthetics of standing

Posturogram showing the trace of the center-of-pressure (COP) while standing quiet. Length unit = mm.