اخبار شبوة اليوم احداث اشتباكات مسلحة مصادمات دامية قتلى وجرحى وخلافات حادة

The opening for the 10 Days project was last Friday in Vienna. The projections for the day were cold, foggy, and big.

click the above two images to see them clearer…  like I said it was foggy.

This was our secret weapon for projecting, built by the Viennese branch of G.R.L.

The projections wouldn’t have been able to happen without Nicholas. Thanks for busting your ass for this, and we’re all glad you didn’t electrocute yourself trying to set it up.

By the end of the night everything was looking like those bars above.

On connaissait le collectif espagnol Luzinterruptus et ses attentats lumineux. Dans le même ordre d’idée, voici un superbe collectif GRL (Graffiti Research Lab), des vrais rebelles mondialisés comme on n’en fait plus qui se font même arrêter, comme Keith Haring en son temps.

Ils militent pour des moyens d’expressions aussi inédits que sauvages, à l’instar des Throwies, de petites LED aimantées à jeter partout.

GRL à Rotterdam

Les vidéos qui suivent montrent plusieurs utilisations de ces “throwies”, et plusieurs interventions, dont certaines demandent la libération de leurs camarades. Cliquez sur l’image pour ouvrir un lien vers leur site. Pour fabriquer un “throwie”, voir ici.



Également intéressantes, leurs actions anti-pub qui ne sont pas sans rappeler les interventions de l’artiste français (cocorico) Zevs.

La version Zevs de l’affaire

zevs - the end

zevs - the end

My group have moved to a strip club in Mayfair. We are organising lots of events over the next few weeks.

http://videobasement.org/

Photos are getting developed and a new Loud and Quiet illustration is on the way. Also eyewriter has been launched, with my illustrations, which is nice:

http://www.eyewriter.org/

http://www.eyewriter.org/diy/

Halloween hit DC in style at techARTS Halloween Party – with music from the Eighty Eight DC + XCultureTV crews, a touch of decor by Graffiti Research Lab, Artomatic in the sponsorship list, and my newest favorite photographer Vincent Gallegos. Check out his photo set of the night’s costumes at ReadySetDC – including a shot of my rad concept costume “MySpace is Dead.”

TEXAS BIG FACE: GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB BACK AGAIN

Graffiti Research Lab is a group of pranksters, graffiti writers and hackers devoted to having fun in public. One part mayhem mixed with a side of interactive art installation. You may remember them from their work with LED Throwiesor their graffiti laser tag which projects graffiti onto buildings.

For this edition, GRL Houston brings us Texas Big Face, the projection of a person’s face onto a piece of sculpture or even another person’s body to transform that object into a piece of interactive art. In short, hella cool.

Kirk Moreno and David Sutherland from GRL Houston sought out artist David Adickes, a Texas sculptor, known for his all-sculptures. All-white makes the perfect backdrop for a piece of interactive projection.

In this video, Sutherland and Adickes present the project and give a how-to instructional for those wanting to build one at home.

I’ve noticed that there is no GRL LA. Here’s a how to on building a GRL in your city. Head’s up LA!

The Links:

Graffiti Research Lab

GRL Houston

David Adickes

I have really enjoyed working with James Powderly and artist Jihoi Lee on a comic book about the time James spent in prison after an incident at the Bejing Olympics involving a projector and some LED Throwies…read more about it here.

Prints of the book cover and panels from the comic are being exhibited in Vienna this month, hopefully a book will follow.

In a previous post on the worrying pace of Greenland and Antarctic melting, I mentioned that Greenland’s melt rate had been the subject of a bit of discussion. There was evidence of rapid melting from Greenland’s southeast glaciers from the late 90s to the mid 2000s, but this “galloping” (as Kerr put it) pace seemed to have ended in 2005. Of course, the denialists jumped all over this apparent reprieve, using it to snipe at Al Gore and imply that further mention of accelerated Greenland melting was naught but greenie scaremongering.

As noted in the prior post, Pritchard et al. found that while this rapid acceleration did seem to peak around 2005 in the southeast, elsewhere in Greenland melt rates continued to accelerate. These findings, along with similar from Antarctica, have been given further support from GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) satellite data, as published by Isabella Velicogna in a new GRL study: Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by GRACE.

GRACE data from Greenland and Antarctic ice mass balance from April 2002 through February 2009 confirm that not only has significant melting continued on both ice sheets, their respective rates are actually best fit by quadratic rather than linear trends- indicating that the melting of each is continuing to accelerate.

Those concerned about rapid ice sheet decay would do well to avoid the embarrassment of the denialists, and refrain from senselessly extrapolating such a short trend into the future- although there is certainly no harm in mocking how swiftly their talking points are continually refuted by reality. Likewise, those crowing about the minor “recovery” [still the third largest melt recorded] of Arctic sea ice should probably keep this paper in mind as well.

Snark aside, the results of the GRACE survey are troubling. Unfortunately- contra the denialists and to paraphrase Samuel Clemens- reports of the demise of accelerating melt have been greatly exaggerated. Velicogna finds that after applying a seasonal filter and a quadratic fit, the rate of Greenland ice loss doubled during the observed period while the rate in Antarctica increased by roughly 140%. This is not a matter of academic interest or rhetorical point scoring- such dynamic melting is precisely the kind of behavior that paleoclimatic data imply for the ice sheets, and why sea level rise will assuredly be much worse than what the base AR4 numbers reflect.

L.A.S.E.R Tag System from Graffiti Research Lab in action

Laser = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Thats a tough one to say, and the concept without any basic knowledge can  be mind boggling. Well, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation goes on everyday in those little laser pointers that one can buy at a dollar store for $5.To the average person, a laser pointer can be thought of as no more than a tool used to aid in one’s presentation of a topic, or a tool of fun at the expense of others (normally reserved for an unsuspecting teacher or peer.) Going even simpler than that, what is your first thought when you hear the word ‘laser’? Laser pointers? Science Fiction space battles? In fact, these two associated words are what account for a fairly small percent of laser usage in todays world. Today, lasers can be mostly found to be used in industrial, military, or scientific applications.

To understand the laser, you first have to understand the very basic technologies that went into the first laser device. It consisted of a synthetic ruby rod (1), a flash lamp (2), a high reflective mirror (3), and a medium reflective mirror (4). When a high current at a high voltage passes through the flash lamp (which are used as the flash in your camera), a large amount of light, or photons, are released from the flash lamp. When these photons come in contact with the ruby rod, they oscillate, or vibrate. These vibrating photons bounce back and forth across both mirrors, increasing the frequency of the vibrations. When the photons bounce off the medium reflective mirror, some of the photons are reflected, and some travel through the mirror as…

LASER LIGHT!

The Ruby Laser Diagram

Phew, the Quantum Physics part of this is over :]

These first lasers were known as “pulse” lasers, as they only produced laser light for 1 microsecond (1 millionth of a second). This laser light, however, could exceede 10,000 Watts (compare this to the >less then 1 milliwat laser pointers that can be bought at gas stations and corner stores!)

I could go much more in-depth into lasers, but I’d rather explain exactly what that guy in the first picture is doing.

The guys at Graffiti Research Lab have found a way to tag where you want, and as big as you want, without having to worry about finger prints (do graffiti artists even care about finger prints? lol.)

It’s called the L.A.S.E.R Tag. It works by tracking a high powered green laser with a webcam, and relaying the laser’s position through a computer software and projects a spray paint-like texture in the position matching the laser.

The city is your media. The only trouble you’ll have is which skyscraper to tag next.

Extra information sources:

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser
-http://www.howstuffworks.com/laser.htm

This atomic heep looks like a bomb when of in it’s main parking spot and it somehow miraculously survived. It’s unfortunate…

(photo courtesy of Aaron)

Jonah Goldberg has a new op-ed in the LA Times on climate science, and it’s about as confused and asinine as you might expect. First Jonah wants to astound us with his grasp of paleoclimate science:

There was a Maunder Minimum! It had to do with sunspots! It was cold!:

During what scientist call the Maunder Minimum — a period of solar inactivity from 1645 to 1715 — the world experienced the worst of the cold streak dubbed the Little Ice Age. At Christmastime, Londoners ice skated on the Thames, and New Yorkers (then New Amsterdamers) sometimes walked over the Hudson from Manhattan to Staten Island.

Of course, it could have been a coincidence. The Little Ice Age began before the onset of the Maunder Minimum. Many scientists think volcanic activity was a more likely, or at least a more significant, culprit. Or perhaps the big chill was, in the words of scientist Alan Cutler, writing in the Washington Post in 1997, a “one-two punch from a dimmer sun and a dustier atmosphere.”

“What does the Maunder minimum have to do with anthropogenic warming?” you might ask, given that a mere 7 years of 2003-level CO2 emissions alone would make up for the lost radiative forcing. Jonah seems to believe that Revelations of Great Importance about sunspots may throw a monkey wrench in the whole anthropogenic warming scam:

Well, we just might find out. A new study in the American Geophysical Union’s journal Eos suggests that we may be heading into another quiet phase similar to the Maunder Minimum.

I’m not finding any “new studies” in EOS that claim this. Is Goldberg talking about Livingston and Penn’s article Are Sunspots Different During This Solar Minimum? If so, add “study” to the pile of things Jonah doesn’t understand the definition of. And again, given the effect of GHGs vs. a return to Maunder like conditions, Jonah’s barking up the wrong tree.

Meanwhile, the journal Science reports that a study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, has finally figured out why increased sunspots have a dramatic effect on the weather, increasing temperatures more than the increase in solar energy should explain. Apparently, sunspots heat the stratosphere, which in turn amplifies the warming of the climate.

Scientists have known for centuries that sunspots affected the climate; they just never understood how. Now, allegedly, the mystery has been solved.

Meehl et al.’s paper Amplifying the Pacific Climate System Response to a Small 11-Year Solar Cycle Forcing is certainly interesting, but it’s by no means definitive, and it’s not really clear what impact it is supposed by Jonah to have on our understanding of anthropogenic warming- the paper purports to model the process by which known phenomena are amplified to produce known observations. Again, what point does Jonah hope to make by citing this?

Also, Milankovitch cycles have a significant impact on glaciation cycles! Something else climate scientists were ignorant of. Let Jonah blow your mind:

Last month, in another study, also released in Science, Oregon state researchers claimed to settle the debate over what caused and ended the last Ice Age. Increased solar radiation coming from slight changes in the Earth’s rotation, not greenhouse gas levels, were to blame.

The Clark et al. paper The Last Glacial Maximum helps pin down the timing of various forcings during the deglaciation ending the LGM (i.e. the lag vs. lead issue), identifying insolation as the initial driver. However, the paper confirms the significant amplifying effect of GHGs without which the magnitude of warming would not have been possible, and supports other evidence which shows that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will not decay linearly but rather abruptly- not exactly a paper I’d want to cite in challenging the consensus on the need to mitigate.

Did you know that periodicity necessitates a long term upward trend, and that this self-evident fact is completely ignored by egg headed climate scientists? Gerald Meehl may think his team’s above referenced paper is only talking about a modest amplified response to the 11-year solar cycle, but Meehl’s actually in denial that he’s discovered a massive long term solar-induced warming trend. Jonah to the rescue:

“Global warming is a long-term trend, Dr. Meehl says. … [the Science 11-year solar cycle] study attempts to explain the processes behind a periodic occurrence.”

This overlooks the fact that solar cycles are permanent “periodic occurrences,” a.k.a. a very long-term trend.

Stupid, stupid Meehl… You have to look beyond what the evidence actually says and force yourself to see the evidence visible only to Jonah.

[Periodicity of course does not imply a long term trend either positive or negative. The existence or lack of any additional long term behavior superimposed on top of the 11-year periodicity is an altogether different kettle of fish, which again I'll get to later.]

It wouldn’t be a Goldberg piece without some requisite potshots at the deceptive Liberal Fascist Media:

For instance, when we have terribly hot weather, or bad hurricanes, the media see portentous proof of climate change. When we don’t, it’s a moment to teach the masses how weather and climate are very different things.

Of course we get the look-aren’t-I-reasonable non-denial:

No, I’m not denying that man-made pollution and other activity have played a role in planetary warming since the Industrial Revolution.

And you know what’s coming next- an enormous “but”, where non sequiturs and appeal to ridicule abound:

But we live in a moment when we are told, nay lectured and harangued, that if we use the wrong toilet paper or eat the wrong cereal, we are frying the planet.

Presumably the references to toilet paper and cereal aren’t meant to be taken at face value, but rather are to be “enjoyed” as Jonah’s trademark “aren’t enviros nutty little fascists” humor. If on the off chance they were an actual allusion to tropical deforestation, however, the warming effects of such due to increased atmospheric CO2 and decreased evapotranspiration are real enough.

Hey! Did you know that climate science has heretofore completely ignored solar variability in the context of climate change? Jonah breaks this scandal wide open:

But the sun? Well, that’s a distraction. Don’t you dare forget your reusable shopping bags, but feel free to pay no attention to that burning ball of gas in the sky — it’s just the only thing that prevents the planet from being a lifeless ball of ice engulfed in total darkness.

What’s priceless about this little argument from ignorance is that the sun is most certainly not, in Jonah’s words,  “the only thing that prevents the planet from being a lifeless ball of ice.” There’s a little something called the bloody greenhouse effect that warms the Earth by an additional ~33°C, keeping it from being a “lifeless ball of ice” whereas the sole influence of the sun does not.

Jonah then doubles (triples) down on the increased sunspot gambit, a la The Great Global Warming Swindle:

Never mind that sunspot activity doubled during the 20th century, when the bulk of global warming has taken place.

This is presumably where Jonah’s sunspot obsession has been leading all along. The ever-observant Jonah has noted that there seems to be a Correlation between sunspots/solar activity (which he Has Recently Learned causes warming, long term warming mind you) and what the enivro hippie fascist scientists would have us believe is the period of Allegedly Man-made Warming. Case closed, mirite?

Not so much. The correlation falls off completely in the last several decades:

This has been covered at length elsewhere (e.g. here, here, here).

Did you know that climate science predicts anthropogenic warming should be monotonic even though climate scientists actually never make that claim? Jonah, again, sets the scientific community straight:

What does it say that the modeling that guaranteed disastrous increases in global temperatures never predicted the halt in planetary warming since the late 1990s? (MIT’s Richard Lindzen says that “there has been no warming since 1997 and no statistically significant warming since 1995.”)

Of course this has been covered many, many times elsewhere, notably by Robert Grumbine in determining climatologically significant temperature trends (and here), by Tamino in when to expect new record temperatures, and by RealClimate discussing what the IPCC models actually say. This issue is also explicitly addressed by Easterling and Wehner in their GRL paper Is the climate warming or cooling? that demonstrates (as does the RealClimate post) that climate models, contrary to Jonah’s claim they “guaranteed disastrous increases in global temperatures [and] never predicted the halt in planetary warming since the late 1990s” do in fact capture the kind of variability that can give the illusion of a period without warming despite a clear overall warming trend:

Jonah probably has, like Roger Pielke Jr., confused the IPCC projection of the forced component of climate over time with specific temperature predictions. However, the ensemble averaged projection isn’t even monotonic itself, and the individual modeling runs certainly are not:

Jonah asks:

What does it say that the modelers have only just now discovered how sunspots make the Earth warmer?

If it were remotely true, it would say quite a lot. Of course, there’s the pesky little issue of Jonah not knowing what the frack he’s talking about. Sunspots don’t themselves warm the Earth, but rather sunspots coincide with increased solar luminosity, and changes in solar forcing certainly have an impact on the climate system- something known for decades. While the precise mechanism by which this occurs may not have been modeled until now (and still might not), the magnitude of the effect is small enough so as to be irrelevant in the context of end-of-century projections of future warming.

Jonah’s own referencing of the Maunder minimum clearly demonstrates that the sunspot/solar variability/climate link is far from new information, and solar variability both pre-industrial and current are of course taken into account in modeling the climate. What does it say about Jonah that the implications of his own column debunks this ridiculous proposition?

And of course, we end with Jonah’s actual bottom line. All of this whinging about toilet paper and sunspots and cereal, and ignorance of the meaning of scientific “study”, what climate models actually say, etc. is merely the pretext for a political argument from ignorance in opposition to climate legislation:

I don’t know what it tells you, but it tells me that maybe we should study a bit more before we spend billions to “solve” a problem we don’t understand so well.

Although the scientific process is obviously deeply mysterious to Jonah, to the rest of us things aren’t so terribly opaque. While our understanding of the climate system increases, the broad strokes of the anthropogenic warming issue are well understood. This is why the national science academies of the US and other major science producing nations are united in their calls for significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Jonah’s argument is the equivalent of  telling an HIV-positive patient that she should hold off on taking the recommended antiretroviral cocktail that will help her lead a relatively normal life because ‘we are still learning new things’ about the virus every day. It’s nonsensical, and more to the point grossly negligent advice.

The only meaningfully true statement Jonah makes in his entire column is this one:

What is the significance of all this? To say I have no idea is quite an understatement, but it will have to do.

Indeed. I believe in Jonah’s line of work we call that burying the lede.

This is what we can expect as blatant climate denialism becomes ever more ridiculed and politically untenable- the non-denial denialism. The lip service to anthropogenic warming that is ultimately revealed to be concealing the same old anti-mitigation arguments based upon economic/ideological opposition to the feared remedy of emissions reductions. This is what so many people who naively believe that “if only people were more accepting of science, they would be less opposed to preventing disastrous climate change” don’t get. The Jonah Goldbergs of the world are not, have never been, and will never be interested in what the science actually says. They are ideologically opposed to the implied solution of emissions reductions, and they shift their arguments accordingly.

Even if Jonah is made aware of the inanity of his specific complaints in this column in terms of policy relevance, he will simply move to a new but inevitably anti-mitigation position, be it geo-engineering, a gamed cost/benefit stance in the tradition of Jim Manzi, the Breakthrough fallacy of magical future clean energy, etc. Once those arguments are rebutted, we’ll still see a “But, but, China/India!” And by the time those arguments (or their successors, or their successors) are thoroughly debunked and untenable, there probably won’t be need of any further ones as the clock will have effectively run out on meaningful mitigation due to political and energy infrastructure inertia.

This is not, and will never be, about science for them. It’s about running out the clock on a perceived threat to economic interests.

A while ago I got the chance to work with James Powderly of Grafitti Research Lab on a really brilliant project, which involved tracking the eye movements of the user and projecting them on a large scale. The technology allowed A.L.S sufferers to communicate, and was developed in conjunction with Tempt, a grafitti artist who now suffers from the disease.

The project was released on monday, and my illustrations are up on Gizmodo and Engadget

In other news, the VHS Video Basement want to make a bike powered cinema.

Maybe, just MAYBE the over-the-hill she-male driving this car could pass as a chick. But I guarantee you there would be Jager involved…

I have been left with a huge gaping hole in my life. I have been filling it with

illustration.

Making comic strips for Louisa

Working on the The Tree House Gallery in Area 10:

And helping The Mutoid Waste Co. out on Trash City, at Glastonbury

I am also doing some other cool stuff with F.A.T. but I’ll post more on that when I have more information.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s new flick ‘Bruno’ hits Aussie shores on the 19th of June. The Mebourne preview screening event will no doubt be one to watch with a fabulous Red Carpet lined up. This movie is set to break even more boundaries than Borat, so I can’t wait to watch, laugh and cringe. Apparently a gay man with a black baby has made for some PR trouble as have many other scenes. Scandalous! I love it! ‘Bruno’ opens on July 9th right around the country. I can’t wait for this one. Stay tuned for Red Carpet action with GRLmobile! View the trailer below NOW!

[Tempt One] is a graffiti artist who has Lou Gehrig’s disease. He can no longer physically produce art, since his disease has taken his ability to control his arms. His friends, won’t let that be the end of it though. They’re building a visual tracking system to let him work by moving his eye. It seems like it would be very difficult to get any kind of a smooth curve out of eye movement, but the short demonstration video, which you can see after the break, does a decent job, at least for something this early in development. The source code isn’t released yet, but they do plan to do so.  If you wanted to make your own, you could find some info in a past post of ours. We’re guessing they intend to use it with something along the lines of the laser tagging system.

Det Graffiti research lab bedriver kan kalles, sagt litt tungvint, urban kommunikasjon med et teknologisk tilsnitt. Jeg blir alltid litt varm om hjarteroten når folk tenker nytt. Vi snakker ikke om throwups, fatcaps, tags og cans, men LED, prosjektor, batterier, magneter, sjablonger, kretskort osv.

graffitiresearchlab.com ;hjemmeside

GRL-på-tuben ;video – enkle midler mot aggressiv markedsføring

instructables.com ;lag tingene selv 

SXSW KEYNOTE: JAMES POWDERLY GETS DOWN WITH LED’S

LED Throwie: a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together.

Today James Powderly spoke to the geek-fabulous crowd at SXSW in Austin.  Powderly is an artist and technology maven who co-founded the Graffiti Research Lab in coordination with Evan Roth.  The mission of the Graffiti Research Lab is to empower artists with open source technology to allow them to communicate in urban settings to the degree that advertisers are enabled.

Powderly’s first request of the crowd at SXSW: he wanted the crowd to flick him off and took a picture from on-stage.  Talk about crowd sourcing…  This one act set the stage for the interview to follow and the Graffiti Research Lab’s body of work.

The LED Throwie above represents one of the Graffiti Research Lab’s earliest works.  The packaged lights can be thrown on surfaces creating an illuminated night-time vision.  Click here or on the image above to see video of the LED throwies in action.  For another example, click the LED Bombing image below.

L.A.S.E.R TAG

The GRL’s latest technology L.A.S.E.R tag utilizes digital projection to enable graffiti artists’ a much larger canvas to create on.  The image below was created on a recent trip to Tokyo.

Here’s how it works.  A projector hooked to a computer with custom built software by Theo Watson reads the green light of the laser point via an attached camera.  Wherever that camera detects the green laser pointer, it updates the projector with a white pixel stylizing the final effect to look like dripping paint.  The software is open source allowing for other artists to build on these effects adding their own signature features.

H$NG K$NG

Most amazing to me is the project they pulled off in Hong Kong.  I used to think that New York City rocked the most amazing night-time city view worldwide… until I visited Hong Kong a few years ago.

Photo Credit: remz-zero

This shot above was taken from Kowloon overlooking Hong Kong Island.  The building at the far left consisting of ascending lit triangles is the Bank of China designed by I.M. Pei.

For this remarkable project pulled off by the GRL in coordination with MC Yan, laser tag technology was used from 1,200 meters away on Hong Kong Island.  MC Yan projected an image onto the Hong Kong Cultural Museum in Kowloon.  This is the farthest distance the technology has ever successfully been used.  Click here or on the image below to check out video of the project.

Powderly describes himself as a magician teaching other artists his tricks.  Back in the day, graffiti artists would tag NYC subway trains as a way of spreading their message from the Bronx to Brooklyn.  Now, the Graffiti Research Lab allows a whole new level of trickery to engage artists ways previously unimaginable.

As a laser tag parting gift, I leave you with the GRL’s latest collaboration: the music video The Hardest from AZ (featuring Styles P & Large Professor).

Hey! I’m Penguingrl. I have a cheat site for Club Penguin at:

http://penguingrl.wordpress.com/

Here, is where you can register for Penguin Rangers. You will go to school. But on this blog ha ha. And I will give a test. You can register at the registering page. This is still going to be updated.

I might not make it today. Because of my other blog. I will try to update everything soon!

~Penguingrl~

Well… laser graffiti, writing facute cu aparatul foto cu timp de expunere mare (intre 5 si 15 secunde), pe intuneric… rezultatele sunt foarte tari cu siguranta o sa mai incerc sa fac! Data viitoare neaparat cu trepiedul! (Fotografiile nu sunt editate deloc… fara Paint, fara Corel, fara pic de Photoshop.)    Pana atunci… enjoy this:

(click to enlarge each picture)   Good night! :*

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