Limitless Pulse

It’s been a while since I’ve been paying attention to fashion photography, but I was taken by the images in Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s February Paris Vogue editorial, ‘Vogue-á-Porter.’

Head to The Photography Link for the full editorial.

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I was digging deep into my Delicious bookmarks and came across a link to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work. The link was dead, but I remember being inspired by the piece he installed in Mexico City, so I googled him to see what he’s up to these days. Delightfully I found his latest piece launched last night: Vectorial Elevation.

Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada. Using a three-dimensional interface, this web site lets you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay. A web page is made for each participant with photos of their design from four cameras located around the city.

I don’t have time at the moment to play with it, especially since Google Earth isn’t playing with Chrome nicely — laughable. But if I’m able to come up with a compelling configuration, I’ll look to post the results here.

Go out and juggle 20 light-cannons!

I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to. This film was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation.

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I’ve worked a bit to tweak the Twitter tweets integration in this site’s sidebar.

I’m using the WordPress feedList Plugin which allows me to funnel in content from RSS feeds. Originally I was piping in the content from my @lightwerk account, but since I decided the @soundnoir feed was pertinent as well, I turned to Yahoo Pipes to combine the two.

I’ve got the Pipe I created for the task grabbing the two RSS feeds from the accounts, but initially the content was doubled up — each tweet was displayed in plain text and as a link at the same time. To fix that I removed the description from the feed.

To edit the RSS feed, I first had a look at the raw contents of the feed using Feed Proxy. With it I was able to pinpoint the “item’s” “description.” Knowing how to address it, I used the Regex module in Yahoo Pipes to find that bit of data and replace it with nothing, essentially deleting it.

Next, I grabbed the newly combined feed’s RSS addy and pasted it into the sidebar.php file of my WordPress theme. It worked correctly, displaying the combination of both feeds in one place.

To highlight the fact that the tweets are coming from two separate accounts, I again turned to the Regex module and searched for the usernames preceding the tweets themselves. By matching ^(lightwerk:) and replacing it with <div>lightwerk:</div> I was able to focus on the usernames and highlight them through their CSS property.

You can see the end result in the image above, and, of course, in the sidebar to the left. I’m pretty happy with it.

One note, since it seems this could be useful for someone else, I’ve published the Yahoo Pipe that drives this functionality. A cool thing about Pipes is that when a given Pipe is published, others can clone and edit it for their own purposes. Feel free to help yourself.

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Internacional by Paco Pomet

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Neolione by Boadesign Studio

In my search for lighting in the kitchen/dining area, I came across the above chandelier on Dezeen. I was instantly reminded of a previous post, also on Dezeen from a few years back, showcasing some beautifully designed compact fluorescent light bulbs. A visit to my Delicious bookmarks and I’d rediscovered The Plumen:

The Plumen by Hulger

The Plumen prototypes have gotten a lot of attention over the last couple years, but to date haven’t gone into production. Happily, revisiting the site I found that Holger is bringing them to market sometime this year. Click over to the site, and in addition to finding more about the line, you can hand over your email addy to stay abreast of the lights’ release.

Painting with light as created by LAPP – Light Art Performance Photography.