Went down to see the Street Art exhibition at the Tate Modern the other day, as expected the main giant artwork painted on to the building were very very impressive, I’d love to know how long it took to get them all up there (+ how long it’s going to take to remove them!)

Though I have to say I found some of the other bits which were planted on streets around the gallery a bit mediocre, it was a cool concept to exhibit street art in the street, but I wonder if people might consider it more if it was placed in the context of a gallery?

Photo by fycgallery

An interesting programme on the other night about ‘Monkey Journey to the West’ the chinese opera by musician Damon Albarn and graphic artist Jamie Hewitt (the guys behind the Gorillaz)

You can watch the programme again on iPlayer also the opera will be showing over the next few days at the Royal Opera House in London.

Thanks to Mr. Sanvicens for telling me about this!

There’s been some great stuff appearing on the Creative Review blog recently, here’s a few of my favourites:

Artist Olafur Eliasson (the guy who did that amazing sunset installation at the Tate Modern a few years ago) has revealed his latest work in New York this time in the shape of a waterfall:

Work by UK artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey which uses the photosensitve properties of grass:

A photography project by David Levinthal and Garry Trudeau which documents the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II - but using toy soldiers!:

Also I love the graphic on this cardboard portable toilet (though I’m not too sure about the product?!)

The new Radiohead video for their track ‘House of Cards’ is pretty ace. Made without the use of any camera’s, but rather a whole load of scanning and laser devices, best thing to do is watch the actual video first …

… then check out the ‘Making of‘ video.

Also quite cool is that the data is licensed under Creative Commons so supposibly you can download it, do your own thing with it, then upload and share it into the YouTube group (will be interesting to see how popular this is?) More info on Boing Boing and GoogleCode.

This is kinda interesting (and funny!) - the BigDog Quadruped Robot designed by the engineers at Boston Dynamics, the real interesting thing is how it corrects itself on difficult terrain - check the video of it being kicked by a man and walking on ice, it’s pretty strange!

Found on Cool Hunting

Recently I’ve been reading about some pretty amazing examples of artwork which either emits light or traces light in some way. Two particularly good examples include the work of Eric Staller, who has done a whole range of both light sculptures and drawings …

Also really loved this installation/performance by Peter Coffin and Cinimod Studio which featured a 7 metre UFO containing 3000 individually controlled LED’s which is attached to an MI2 Helicopter flying 50m above! The video needs to seen to appreciate how awesome this is!

More about this on Pixelsumo, also check out Smashing Magazine’s recent post on Light Paintings and Sculptures.

I’m really excited to see what interesting things come out of this - just having a quick browse around some of the good ‘uns look like Netnewswire (at last a proper RSS reader!), Remote, Super Monkey Ball, and the MooCowMusic’s Band 

This is cool …

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Found on Adam Crowe’s site

Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool, and all shootin some b-ball outside of the school … this month I thought I’d put together a couple of tunes which should be listened to outdoors, in the garden (or park), in the sunshine!

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Wow! If you’re near Selfridges pop in and check out Mr.Asahi the robot bartender - I particularly like the way they’ve made his appearance and actions quite human (he even gives you a bit of banter too!), a vast improvement on Asahi’s previous attempt the Motoman RoboBar.

Heard an interesting talk today by one of the other interaction designers in the BBC, he had a background in designing for mobile devices and was mentioning what the future was in this field. Obviously most people would say that multi-touch devices like Apple’s iPhone are gonna have a big place, however the other technology that may be on the horizon soon is less about touching the screen and more about gesturing towards it.

Nokia have apparently filed a patent recently which uses ultrasonic transducers to emit sound waves which are then reflected back when fingers and hands block the path. This essentially means that the phone can recognise hand and finger movements in three dimensional space Minority Report style!

More info on unwiredview.com

Nice, more at fubiz.net