ポラロイドのように振る
The German-based company Lightboys has created polaboy, a wood frame with 5,000 lumens of LEDs that resembles a Polaroid. Each frame is ten times the size of an actual Polaroid, providing both art and function with ample mood lighting. You can select from their special edition collections which include odes to Paris, Ocean Drive, NYC and the female figure or customize your own image. All you have to do is email a hi-res scan of the image [see more], each custom image framed costs about USD 3200. Apparently you can also ‘pimp your pola’ which roughly translates to picking out paterns and colors for the exposed wires.
SEE SOUND BY DEAF ARTIST
Performance artist Christine Sun Kim focuses on what she calls “the physicality of sound”. The taste curators at Nowness posted cult filmmaker Todd Selby’s short showing how Kim works in NYC’s Chinatown as she picks up sounds from the streets and balloons to create “seismic calligraphy” with the help of nails and vibrating subwoofers. Kim explains, “It’s a lot more interesting to explore a medium that I don’t have direct access to and yet has the most direct connection to society at large.” Since “social norms surrounding sound are so deeply ingrained that, in a sense, our identities cannot be complete without it.”