Wind energy can be fancy…
The idea is simple and nice. Take a wind mill and put some colorful LED lights on it so everybody can see. The so called Siemens SuperStar was created by multimedia artist Michael Pendry for the company and was displayed till January in Munich (close to the Allianz Arena). Pendry convinced both Siemens and the Stadtwerke München (Munich City Utilities) to let him install this art piece on one of the utilities’ wind turbines. It was created to showcase and promote sustainable energy and green innovation. Passing cars on the motorway could find this a little bit distracting, but it looks good.
9.000 OSRAM LEDs were superglued to a wind turbine in just under two weeks. Thanks to smart energy systems like smart grids and power highways, it only consumes as much energy as a hair dryer! The 9.000 LEDs put out as much light as 20.000 Christmas candles.
I think it´s pretty amazing that a project like this was done in Munich, a city which is known as a conservative city, but Munich’s Mayor, Christian Ude, has been an enthusiastic proponent of the energy-efficient spectacle from the start and hopes his city will be the first of its size to meet all energy requirements from renewable sources.
via Andreas Brendle
This post was written by Thomas
on February 22nd, 2010
New on our portfolio: Q & Awesome
We just added a new project to our portfolio! »Q & Awesome« is an installation and web application for large conferences that makes Q&A sessions much faster and more effective. Read all about it on the official portfolio page.
This post was written by Philipp
on September 13th, 2009
What about flying Logos?
Are you sick of big panorama banners with your logo at your next event? Try this so called FLOGOS. They print your logo in foam and let it fly around the city. Sounds weird? Of course it is, but we like it.
Guten Touch
It starts quite standard. Two people are juggling circles on a multi-touch wall. But then, they start using brushes and sponges to draw on the wall, there’s physics simulation and finally there’s people playing space invaders the way it’s supposed to work: by throwing rubber balls at a huge screen.
Plus: music by sigur rós.
via Fabrik
Primal Source / awesome outdoor installation
Holy sh*t! It’s a giant, floating, responsive, colorful, mist-projected installation! Usman Haque created this marvellous piece of media art especially for the Glow 08 (OK, this post IS a little late…), a dusk til dawn festival in Santa Monica. The image, projected on a wall of mist, adjusted its appearance and behaviour as the noise level of the crowd changed. As you might know, anything that makes lots of people scream, chant and cheer totally kicks ass in my opinion. And if it is combined with floating, colorful projections, it’s simply pure awesomeness!
Kudos to Usman, and shame on me for not knowing about the mere existence of Glow.
This post was written by Philipp
on March 22nd, 2009
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