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Gigantic rubber duck shows up in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor

, May 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Residents and tourists in Hong Kong this week were greeted with a very strange sight floating in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. A gigantic rubber duck is currently floating in the harbor. Yes, you read that right a gigantic six-story tall rubber duck is currently invading Hong Kong harbor. Read The Full Story

Science geek creates photographs using bacterial growth

, Apr 5th 2013 Discuss [0]

Anyone who's ever taken a microbiology class in college will have fond or more likely not so fond memories of growing disgusting bacteria and mold on various petri dishes. I always thought it was really cool that for many of the bacteria we worked with in college, whichever direction you smeared the culture onto the growth medium in your petri dish was typically how the bacteria would grow. Read The Full Story

The Mill LA teams with Sonos Studio for “Bugs” interactive multimedia experience

, Mar 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the folks behind VFX studio The Mill LA have joined with Sonos Studio for an interactive multimedia installation event that'll be going by the name of "Bugs!" This installation will be living in Sonos Studio from the 5th of April until the 5th of May. This installation will mash together the greatness that both groups can provide: six massive displays combined with six Sonos PLAYBAR units, each of them depicting a Bug that'll blow your mind. Read The Full Story

Wacom Cintiq 13HD takes digital art creation mobile

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [7]

Wacom may be having a ball putting digital pen technology into bestselling mobile devices like the Galaxy Note II, but that doesn't mean the company has forgotten its artistic roots. Fresh to the catalog is the Cintiq 13HD, a 13.3-inch Full HD graphics tablet intended for digital artists on the move. Based around a 1920 x 1080 wide-angle display mounted on an adjustable, three-position detachable stand, the Cintuq 13HD promises the flexibility of its bigger Cintiq siblings, but at a more affordable cost and scaled to fit in your bag. Read The Full Story

Artist Liu Bolin at TED2013

, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

Artist Liu Bolin is also known as "The Invisible Man." He is called The Invisible Man because he is featured in nearly all of his artwork, but it can be very difficult to spot. Take the image below, the artist is featured prominently in that piece, if you can find him. Read The Full Story

Artist uses an iPad and digital fingerpaints to create art

, Jan 22nd 2013 Discuss [5]

When you think about art, I'd wager most of us don't think about digital media outside of photographs being used to create artworks that people would pay money for. A digital artist named Topher Straus has created a series of digital artworks printed on physical media using his iPad. The artist takes a photograph of things that interest him using the iPad camera. Read The Full Story

Bizarre live mail art piece sent to Julian Assange

, Jan 17th 2013 Discuss [1]

Sometimes people do bizarre things and try to call it art. Such is the case with what is being called a live mail art piece that has been sent to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. As you might recall Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June of 2012. Read The Full Story

Cygnett ICON cases customized by TATS CRU in person at CES 2013

, Jan 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week at Digital Experience (during CES 2013) we caught up with the case makers at Cygnett where they had none other than the world famous TATS CRU joining the fun for fully unique customized iPhone 5 ICON cases. The TATS CRU is a set of mural street artists that’ve been using their graffiti style since the 1980′s with explosive results. This customizable case here has been customized not once, but twice, by the TATS CRU for none other than SlashGear – have a look!

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Apple prototypes of the 80′s unveiled

, Dec 28th 2012 Discuss [10]

The designer known as Hartmut Esslinger has revealed an amazing treasure trove of never before seen designs from the Apple archives this week in a book by the name of “Design Forward.” This book was launched this week at the opening event of an exhibition by the name of “German Design Standards – from Bauhaus to Globalization” and was delivered first to the folks at Design Boom where they’ve been allowed to display many of the images within. What we’re being shown here is a set of Apple products designed – at least in part – by Hartmut Esslinger himself during his time with what would become one of the most iconic hardware companies in history.

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Galaxy Note II glows powerful in massive water art project

, Nov 27th 2012 Discuss [1]

It's time to bust out the fabulously gigantic smartphone known as the Samsung Galaxy Note II to bring on a rather impressive bit of interactive water art. Artists and designers at Steak Studio have used the Galaxy Note II and its build-in S-Pen to create a pool of water that blasts forth waves wirelessly, showing all manner of designs in the wetness. This project took 10 days to create and was made to cross-promote Samsung's device and the group that's working with it to create beautiful splashing letterforms. Read The Full Story

SlashGear interviews Futura 2000 on Samsung and the power of cross-branding

, Oct 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

The artist / designer known as Futura 2000 has executed a rather interesting set of collaborative projects in his lifetime, painting a portfolio of historically significant cross-overs that’s lead him straight to Samsung. The folks at Samsung took the opportunity very recently to team up with Futura for the first time to present a unique use-case for the Galaxy Note 10.1 (tablet with S-Pen stylus) and its major potential in the hands of this creative icon and legend. In our interview we found that though Samsung presents this man as a larger-than-life hero here in their second collaboration (here using the Galaxy Note II as a central device), he’s actually quite the down-to-earth conversationalist, and has shown his approach with the Galaxy Note device series to be made with the same intrigue as your everyday average gadget enthusiast.

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Beck “Song Reader” album cuts out the music

, Aug 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week it's been announced that the musical artist known as Beck will be releasing an album comprised of 20 pieces of sheet music called "Beck Hansen's Song Reader". This is 20 pieces of music that are not recorded by the artist, instead intended by the artist to be played and recorded by whoever so wishes to do so. Licensing issues and future recordings by associated artists aside, we applaud Beck's ability to have so much cash on hand that he experiments with each new release. Read The Full Story
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