Street Level Lab

Had a lot of fun last Wednesday at the Upper Deck Tavern helping out the Lowcountry Bike Co-op. We made throwies (to be attached to the bikes) and played with Blobber. Here are pics of the throwies and laser fun:




More pics can be found here.

In case youre not on the mailing list, were having a get together at brians house on sunday at 6pm, just to get to know the crew and swap some ideas. swing by and grab a beer and some nerd points.

So as many of you know, we were showing off our new gadgets this year at KultureKlash 3. which we were pretty pumped about, but sadly nature wasnt as pumped as we were. it rained most of the night and when it wasnt raining, it was cold as crap. so we started off inside, where the folks from KK had set up a pretty sweet projector for us, but sadly it was too bright for where we were projecting and the blobber software coudlnt see the dot, so we had to sit out for a bit. but we had a good time either way, we met some new folks and made some good contacts. so heres a shout out to the folks from KK, thanks for inviting us and letting us come play. shame we couldnt be more "involved" with the croud, but we had fun either way.

head on over to the Picasa album and check out the pics:

That's a real MUSC phone number for the Department of Psychiatry....and what looks like a great joke from Ish.  Remember kids, if you do graffiti you'll regularly shit yourself.  Looks like some good material for a fake PSA.

If you haven't seen it yet, there's an article this week in the Charleston City Paper (check it out here).  Our thanks to John Stoehr for a fun interview and a good review of what we're about.  Plus, it looks like we made some new friends (we've been talking to Spaced Invaders about working on some projects).

We have finished the initial planning phases of a documentary about the graffiti scene in Charleston are looking at a filming schedule that should end by February '09.  If you think you have a unique perspective to offer or think that your work is worth a mention feel free to email the film group at film@streetlevellab.com.

Marion square is beautiful at night, its even more beautiful when lit up by a projector and a few lasers. we met up with a photograher for the city paper and Stella from the Digitel and put on a demo sunday night, we attracted a few new faces, and a few unwanted people..... mainly cops. apparently they werent too pleased that we were doing this event with out a permit. i wonder why....

So the Guys over at CSCLUG have written a space invaders game for Blobber, so being the  1985 mind set, I made this today:

So im sure some of you guys have seen our laser tagging software cooked up with CSCLUG. They use a projector, camera and some special software to let us use light to draw. so we over at sll saw a cool opportunity to whip up something fresh. The software (called blobber) tracks light in the cameras view, normally we use lasers to tell the software where we want the line, but that wasn't natural for some artist who do what we do so we made this:



This will allow us to draw using the software but with this can instead of a laser. dope right?