Light Bead Curtain
Remember your mom’s hippie friend with no doors between the rooms in her house — just those bead curtains that rattled when you walked through them? (Or maybe that was our house; I get confused.) Did you ever catch your “uncle” Stu just kind of stroking the beads with tears in his eyes, muttering something about the lights and the music and how beautiful it all was? Did you wonder what he had just ingested?
Well someone’s “uncles,” Jin-Yo Mok and Ahmi Wolf, grew up and learned Flash. The Light Bead Curtain is a delicate veil of glass beads, in which every bead is alive, responding to your touch with light and sound. Even if we were high on nothing but life, we could play with something like that for, oh, years.
(We assume it’s built using Flash because previous, equally-enthralling experiments by Jin-Yo — such as the Music Box Projects — definitely were. But if we’re wrong about this one, tell us.)
If you’re inspired to start building your own physical/digital art, check out MakingThings — they’ve done the hard work of interfacing Flash with the physical world, so you can start playing right away.
We’ve had fascinating last-minute gadgetry show up in several recent Flashforward sessions (wires! everywhere!) thanks largely to MakingThings’ presence in our exhibitor area, easily accessed by several hundred Flash geeks in a hotel with too much Red Bull on hand…
(found on Gizmodo)
