Aram Bartholl – Blog

Another version of the Tweet Bubble Series: Loud Tweets. While I was putting together the concept for the whole project I said in the very beginning: ‘Everything but no LEDs!!!’. LED scroll bars are just too much the cliche of everything. Too much advertising, disco, show off and cheapness (and too much Jenny Holzer ;-). And there are already a couple of T-shirts with LED scroll tags on the market.
But then we ended up starting on this never the less. Simon did the hack with this LED name badge I got at eARTS festival Shanghai. An Arduino board does a simulated 3 button thumb press input. So each tweet is programmed letter by letter which takes a while pull a tweet from the web. And I liked that emulating human cheap device interaction. The next step would have been to connect the badge to a GSM/GPRS Arduino to make it standalone without PC but I stopped it here. The simplicity would have been lost and in the and the price to make it a standalone device was not in relation to the cheapness factor any more.

I preferred to keep it like this and to walk it in the city. I like a lot the big ad bars or train info displays next to the personal twitter feed ad. Blink blink city signage in relation to personal show off ad bar in small scale.

Tweet Bubble Series 'Loud Tweets' from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

The Tweet Bubble Series is the result of my 3 months residency at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media this spring.

Check the all the Twitter to RL speech bubbles versions on the project page.

Thanks to V2 lab! And special thanks to my project team Piem Wirtz and Simon de Bakker.

More pics on flickr.

(More Wall-Art, found on Bernauerstr., Berlin)

Artist?

In remembrance of MJ.
Spread the word !!! fffff.at/weekend-of-the-white-glove

Nice one, Markus! Your 2,5″ external harddrive is super safe packed for transport!
Quick and dirty is an important quality of DIY. Yes!

In the first place a ‘how to’ is a manual but to a certain extend it also always tells a story.
Some people push the story part quite far on Instructables. :-) I like that!

Check the full Saga here www.instructables.com/id/The-Free-Yacht-Saga/

Ariel’s bike was already the hit but this is just insaine. Ariel, I hope you can convince the museum/gallery fire safety guys, haha!

A mini cooper filled with cooking gas, the gas is release from 2 large gas tanks. on the passenger window a small hole was drilled, letting the gas that is trapped inside escaping and burning as a small flame.

Ariel Schlesinger 2009

(Nice one! artist?, found at Borsigstr, Berlin)

Play him off, keyboardcat, my current favorite Internet meme.

“Are you human?”