Discovery Wall – Screen made from thousands of iPod Nanos

Created by London-based creative agencies Squint/Opera and Hirsch&Mann, Discovery Wall is a wall-sized installation created from thousands of tiny screens and lenses that celebrates the work of the new $650m Belfer Research Building, part of Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in Manhattan.

The installation (approx 4.6m x 2.7m) is comprised of 2800 mini screens set in a grid pattern behind a panel of thousands of circular acrylic discs. The dual layer construction makes it possible to read the wall from a distance as a single image, and then, up close, each screen has information about medical discoveries and other news from WCMC’s website.

Team’s initial design approach was to explore existing screen technologies and find the one most visually appealing. They immediately fell in love with the perfectly square iPod Nano V6. It has a higher pixel density than standard screens, and is a small enough form factor that it can act as both a single pixel in the display as well as a part of a high resolution image. Re-purposing such consumer-market part means that minimal technical information is available, and they weren’t buying them in vast quantities which meant that the manufacturer wasn’t interested in supporting their queries. Together with their partners at White Wing Logic they reverse engineered the Nano! Once this was achieved, the update speed, power, and software communication protocol had to be developed to satisfy the creative and technical vision of the installation.

Spark Exit Experience

Spark exit experience is made up of interactive lights.

House of Cards at the Amsterdam Light Festival

The HOUSE OF CARDS is our new light installation that is currently shown at the Old City of Jerusalem (Hurva Square) at the 6th Light in Jerusalem Festival (June 2014). 126 cards have been stacked upon each other and create a 10 x 7 x 5 m big structure that is charmingly white and clean at daytime and turns into a light spectacle at night. The deck of cards present Biblical Figures, illustrated by Jean David in the 1970 for ElAl Airlines.

Abyss Table by Christopher Duffy

Astronaut Alexander Gerst in six-minute timelapse in Space

Watch Earth roll by through the perspective of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in this six-minute timelapse video from space. Combining 12 500 images taken by Alexander during his six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station this Ultra High Definition video shows the best our beautiful planet has to offer. Marvel at the auroras, sunrises, clouds, stars, oceans, the Milky Way, the International Space Station, lightning, cities at night, spacecraft and the thin band of atmosphere that protects us from space. 
 

3D Floating Face Watches While You Gamble

Using 2.1 million multicolor LEDs placed in a box structure to create a three-dimensional appearance when viewed from just the right angle. Created by display engineering firm Daktronics, the LED-laden structure measures 32 feet long by 18 feet wide, and extends 4 feet deep. Its pixels are spaced at 6mm, enough density to give a convincing video effect. As impressive as it is, it’s not the biggest or most-dense display they’ve built for the SLS hotel — that one is the 88-foot-tall SLS sign that stands outside the casino, beckoning all to come try their luck inside its halls.

An Interactive Moon Sculpture with Light Bulbs

The piece features 5,500 bulbs turned into a glowing orb that hangs from an arched structure over a wooden circle. As the piece is meant to represent the moon, the public are able to manually change the phases of this globular body, turning a wheel so the piece becomes an exploration of "the whimsical and alluring nature of our nearest celestial body," explain the artists.

"The sculpture draws on the universal familiarity of moonlight to all people," they continue. Like previous examples in their sculpture series, including Cloud and Solar Flare, the sculpture makes tangible the supernal bodies that hang in the sky above us, bringing them closer while maintaining their stately allure. "While the brightness of the sculpture is enchanting, for us as artists, the real epiphany of working on this sculpture came from recognizing the incredible value of darkness in relation to a work characterized by light," they explain.

Artist is Trapping Flowers in Blocks of Ice

After sending incredible flower arrangements on a wild ride to the edges of space last year, artist Azuma Makota is anchoring his works on Earth—in giant blocks of ice, to be exact—for his latest series, Iced Flowers. The series, describes Makoto on his website, "observes the changing life of flowers that are locked in ice." Like his previous work, he is continuing to investigate the "expression" of flowers in different environments. Makoto invites his viewers to "Please enjoy how flowers and ice change themselves over time in the ruins far from human’s existence—it is an inorganic space that makes a vivid contrast with flowers.”