Posts tagged game

Holiday Party Bingo set by Jennifer Lewis for Flavorwire

Waldner, Table Tennis 2.0 by Robert Lindstrom

Next generation ping pong table made with an advanced computer system integration. The table has a multi-touch surface, which responds to human touch and real world objects, like ping-pong balls. The table is also equipped with Siri voice recognition that monitors the game along with a Mac Pro 12-core computer. That means the table is very intelligent; it sees, feels and hears the game. You can even discuss a ball with it to improve your ping pong skills or argue about a point.

BLOOM, a collective gardening experience

BLOOM is what its designers call an “urban toy.” It is a “distributed social game and collective ‘gardening’ experience that seeks the engagement of people in order to construct fuzzy BLOOM formations.” These formations are aggregate volumes composed of repeated, identical parts, which the designers refer to as “cells.” These “cells” are designed and fabricated by the designers themselves, Alisa Andrasek of Biothing, and Jose Sanchez of Plethora Project, in London. Meant to contribute an air of jovial democratized design in relation to the 2012 London Olympic Games, BLOOM is representative of the artistic, collective act. Each individual component, as the designers explain, can do nothing on its own, but instead, reach their full and limitless potential when arrayed en masse.

Each of the BLOOM pieces has three potential sites for connection along its outline, enabling it to be compiled both two and three dimensionally. This embedded form of connection, however, is all that is provided to the user, who is free to use as few or as many pieces as they choose to construct an installation. It is the simple combinations inherent between these cells that can potentially produce many different mutations. This project is emblematic of democratic design as seen through the lens of digital fabrication, aggregation, and repetition.

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Banaball by Clement Bacle & Ludovic Ducasse,Le Voyage à Nantes Art Installation

The sport consists of five foam balls and two teams with three players who must ‘banafreeze’ the opposing competitors by hitting them directly with a ball before it touches the ground. offensive maneuvers are executed from behind the attack line with the use of a hand-held wicker scoop called the banarama, borrowing from the ‘chistera’ of the basque pastime. defensively, incoming projectiles can be blocked by banamoving (dodging),  banablocking (with the banarama), or momentarily banahiding behind a banafrozen teammate. when a goal is scored, all banafrozen players on the scoring side are free to move, at which point the entire bunch screams ‘bbaaannaaaabbaaaall’, celebrating the fruits of their labor.