Online art project by Kyle McDonald lets anyone annotate video captured in public spaces in London. The visual feed is not actual from a CCTV camera, but footage captured over a twelve hour period. One notable example, “Kiss Me”, is embedded below:
Maker installation project by royrobotiks is a huge pinball machine made with familiar everyday objects:
Galactic Dimension is a supersized pinball machine which I’ve built for Phæno
– an amazing science center in the German city of Wolfsburg. The
pinball was built on a steep ramp in the exhibition hall and has a
gigantic playfield, which measures 3×6 meters in total.
Styled with UFO’s and other cosmic references, the pinball fits perfectly into the futuristic building designed by the star architect Zaha Hadid.
As a science center should stimulate creativity and inventiveness, I
repurposed everyday items like hair dryers and office fans for the
playfield elements, giving the visitors the idea that they could also
build such a contraption at home.
The result is a fully playable machine, operated via a control desk
where the score is displayed on a jumbo calculator. Needless to say –
hunting the high score is galactic fun! Watch the video above to see the
machine in action!
More about how the project was put together can be found here
Just a reminder that BAHFest submissions are still open! We're doing two biology-themed shows (one at MIT and one in San Francisco), as well as a megaproject-themed show in Seattle. Have any horrible, stupid, theories of evolutionary adaptation? Or any ideas for terrible mega science projects? Please check it out!
