Pretty crazy test Japanese sound artist Daito Manabe did together with Masaki Teruoka and Katsuhiko Harada. Daito’s face is twisted to the music via electrical-pulse that stimulates his muscles, 10 channels in total, 8 to control his facial expressions, 2 to keep the music and face in sync. According to Daito it depends on the [...]
Sticky-fingered children have Disneyland. Travel junkies have mountaintop temples in Nepal. Elvis impersonators have Graceland. Comic book nerds — as well as a lucky few from 160over90 — have Comic Con. Comic Con, a mecca for anyone who’s ever picked up a comic book, figurine, or video game console, attracts tens of thousands of fans and fanatics [...]
The San Francisco based designer Johnny Selman creates a poster a day for 365 days based on news headlines taken from the BBC website. His initiative is a reaction to online media becoming the number one medium for Americans to consume any sort of content or news and his desire to create more awareness for [...]
Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo. Amazing effects achieved here. Images are animated on the screens of moving iPad’s then photographed in timelapse. The result enables one to light paint 3-d forms.
Yesterday morning when most of the sane world was still sleeping, 30,000 runners, including five of us from 160over90, congregated in North Philly at the top of Broad Street to race ten miles in muggy 80 degree heat. We organized the team as a part of our efforts to encourage sustainability and health, and to [...]
One of my favorite parts of living in Philadelphia is the odd mash-up of bougie-international-nerdy-hipster-eccentric characters that you can find in one place, at any given moment. I was reminded of this particular urban charm on Sunday, when a few of us decided to bike up to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Fairmount Park. It [...]
