SHARE A BRAINWAVE

 
This reproduction of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting “Sea of Ice” has left a strong impression in my mind. Not because of it’s dramatic story of the colossal strength of nature swallowing a ship whole. No, I’m truly inspired by the formal strength of the painting. The clear logic of the zig-zagging and seemingly chaotic surfaces and lines. […]

There are moments when a movie just hits you like a… you-know-what. Yes, a wave. Rolling over you without you noticing that you are swept off your feet, and things are not the same anymore. You have been told a secret, somebody else’s story. This story you must carry with you - and you will, unless your heart is […]

 
I recently stumbled upon this amazing piece of technology, AMOEBA, which seems to be able to generate lines and shapes on a surface of water. “The wave generators move up and down in controlled motions to simultaneously produce a number of cylindrical waves that act as pixels.”
I want one.
Someone suggested a reference to the water creatures in James Cameron’s […]

Me and filmmaker Anders Weberg got carried away by the waves, and made this short experimental film, exclusively for Share a Brainwave:
Ripples
Anders made the video, I made the sound. Our associations oscillated between the inconspicuous and ripples in time. The film follow the aesthetics of some of our previous projects, like: Surreal Scania and Being […]

Artist Reuben Margolin has created a series of wooden kinetic sculptures, which he calls Waves. One of these sculptures “The Square Wave” (image) is made of wooden dowels controlled by an awesome mechanical contraption. You really have to admire the tremendous effort and degree of precision this guy has used to create exactly these billowing […]

The new waveband at the top of SHARE A BRAINWAVE is created by Danish artist Jannie Weimar. It is the first to be exhibited in The WAVEBAND Gallery - an everchaning series of original artwork created by selected comtemporary artists for SHARE A BRAINWAVE.
Jannie Weimar describes herself as follows:
Call me whatever you prefer; a teacher […]

On the topic of the many shapes of water I remembered a couple of digital projects attempting to literally manipulate the shape of water.
The project “Bitfall” (top image) creates temporary physical water sculptures in mid-air. It’s a kind of giant vertical matrix printer consisting of a number of synchronized valves spurting out ephemeral imagery. The images only exist for a very short while […]

I just bought these scissors as a birthday present for a soon-to-be four-year-old - and I’m already regretting not getting some for my own use. The trick is - in case you didn’t already know - that these scissors automatically cut the paper in the wavy pattern of your choice - sort of a stencil-meets-scissors-invention. […]

…. my brain found this old musical inspiration…..
Keep the waves comming…… - walking on sunshine ;-)

 
On the subject of brain waves, the game of Brainball cannot be ignored. This electronic art installation works in the following way: Two players are seated at a table and their brain activity is measured. By accomplishing the least brain activity the players push a ball forward. Here’s the technical explanation:
“The brainwaves that move the ball forward, increasing the […]

Inspired by Nadja’s post Smiling Is A Benign Virus I came to think of a conversation I was having the other day with the great and inspiring Danish musician and artist Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen a.k.a. Jomi Massage.
She told me she had started to live out a mantra from one of her lyrics saying - “speak out your […]

Ancient pond unstirred
Into which a frog has plunged,
A splash was heard. 
Basho, 17th C Japanese haiku poet (translation by Kenneth Yasuda)
Probably the most well-known of its kind throughout history, this haiku refers to quietness being broken by action taking place. The result is a sound.
We do not see anything. It could be dark, as the frogs […]