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As promised, here’s some more Light Up Bristol footage.

Light Up Bristol from crustea on Vimeo.

Light Up Bristol happened once again in December. This time bigger, better (and more chaotic) that before. There’s a whole load of pics up on the Flickr group, although with this year being in motion images don’t do it justice.

We’ve got some more video in production (yep, I know it’s March, we’ve been busy!), but for a preview check out the AntiVJ reel, which contains a little of the event from 1:34. (Note: The installations presented at the beginning of the reel are other works by the AntiVJ label)

5 nights
17 artists
100+ meters wide worth of building
6 dam large digital projectors
20 other lighting projectors and lights
3 machines
Over 100k worth of lighting power
4 french men
5463 chestnuts
2 snow machines
many late nights…

This piece of sexiness looks set to be the next big jump in gaming. It looks absolutely lovely, seems to be scarily interactive and reactive, and the game play appears to be thought through and well researched (that final point will need to be proved through, but we’ve got faith!)

Assassin’s Creed has already been feverishly discussed since early demos, particularly at last years E3 event. And more recently have started showing working demos of the game… which as you’ll see are pretty unbelievable.

Now I’ll have to buy a PS3. Anyhow, check out the official site for the flashy trailer, or check out the demo below.

A couple of posts on some good looking digital stuff about recently…

Alexander McQueen - continuing his blurring between technology and fashion - recently used a Musion Eyeliner System to materialise a life sized hologram of Kate Moss in the center of the show.

The system, as used by Gorillaz in their stage ‘appearances’, simulates the 3d by using a projector, a mirror and a form of semi transparent foil that sits at 45% degrees to the viewers. It’s a modern version of an old technique known as “Peppers Ghost” used in stage shows.

The output looks beautiful, particularly when crafted by Alexander (and containing Kate). Have a look for yourself:

I’ve got a backlog of posts that just keeps seeming to get longer, with some sitting in my todo’s for at least a year. So in an attempt to not let them pass here’s a quick hit of some of the great and the good:

An attempt at digital pixels. Not quite as beautiful as Daniel Rozin’s work but still pretty interesting (the end goals are different anyhow). It’s nice how the whole system talks to each other, and ‘pixels’ can be added and removed as needed. Created with Processing.

Zopa.com has already had a reasonable amount of interest in the press. I originally saw it when checking out what the guys at Poke had been up to recently. Looking into it it’s a very interesting idea. Basically matching up lenders and borrowers. I’m interested to see whether it’ll get popular enough to get Carol Vorderman of the TV adverts in the morning.

This guy seems to have far too much fun making things such as paint ball and zombie mini guns. The best thing is he then goes to work and does stuff like this.

To balance out the mini-guns and zombies: this next site is somewhere between the ‘you too can look like Kate Moss’ pages and a MIT grads dissertation. Like.com utilizes image recognition techniques to find similar items within a number of online stores stock.

Finally, Matt Biddulph at hackdiary has created a meeting of our favorite Phy/Dig interface Arduino and Second Life. Some basic workings out are included so we can all get on with it ourselves. The potential for real world/ virtual world interfaces is massive.

If you’ve been living in a box for the last few days then you may have not seen the latest Grand Theft Auto trailer. With the amount of budget they’ve been spending on letting people know, it’s unlikely you haven’t. But for those lonely few, here it is.

For the hi-fi lovers check it out at Rockstar’s site (Recommended)

For the lazy lo-fi’s just hit play: