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AWA Lighting Designers Update – April 2015
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Sam Kutesa, the President of the General Assembly cut the ribbon unveiling 'The Ark of Return'. AWA Project 'Ark of Return' Unveiled at the UN Headquarters On Wednesday March 25 2015, on the United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slave..
read moreProjection Mapped Makeup Transforms Men into Beasts
Transforming a model's face using projection-mapped makeup. Two men get the face hacking treatment through the artist's careful application of real-time facial tracking and 3D projection. Above, watch one transform a cheetah through the careful combination of light, motion capture, and CGI. Omote's..
read moreWhen Buildings, Street Art and Projection Mapping merge
The world's first graffiti projection mapping project stands five stories high and 70 meters long in Australia TDC provided the technology and expertise behind graffiti-mapping artwork projected onto the largest mural in Melbourne – spanning five stories high and 70 meters long. The groundbreaking..
read moreUN unveils permanent memorial to victims of transatlantic slave trade
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Two weeks ago today the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Sam Kutesa the President of the General Assembly cut the ribbon unveiling "The Ark of Return". The unveiling happened at the UN New York Headquarters where the permanent memorial sits as a memorial to the victim..
read moreRAW turns downtown Montreal into an interactive kaleidoscope
A public art installation in Montreal, Canada, that is made from 50 pivoting prisms The 50 pivoting prisms are made of panels laminated with a dichronic film that transmits and reflects every colour in the visible spectrum, varying with the position of the light source and the observer. The prisms a..
read moreRodney Leon explains ‘The Ark of Return’
Rodney Leon, architect and designer of the Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz This year’s March 25 2015 commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade had parti..
read moreWHY LIGHT IS A DRUG
There are few real-world solutions that successfully combine an understanding of the physiological effects of light with efficiency and aesthetics As we grow older, our vision is reduced and the amount of light that enters the retina and tells the body what time it is decreases too. Add to that the ..
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