Gebhard Sengmüller A Parallel Image

here is a piece of work by Gebhard Sengmüller the guy behind the mazing vinyl video and many more amazing projects detailed on his website (my favorite being, the use of 24 kodak carousel s-av 2050 to roughly simulate a 35mm film projector, INSANE!)

check out this beautiful image from his work A Parallel Image which like allot of his work deconstructs communication technologies by building mechanisms that never existed to illustrate how todays complex impregnable systems can be broken down and understood. video on his site

Vinyl Video

So here is an interesting project Vinyl Video its basically a system that converts video signals in to audio that can be recorded on to a vinyl record and played back on a regular television. I imagine it uses very similar technology to the Fisher-Price Pixelvision Camerea which contains a custom integrated circuit the Sanyo LA 7306M more info here. While the Vinyl Video player is very cool it will set you back a Hefty €4500 which seams silly when you could achieve the same effect by buying a Pixelvision camera (I got mine for £30) and recoding the video signal off as audio getting that cut to vinyl (under £100) and playing it back through the Pixelvision to your TV set, still it's nice to see such a complex project online.