Maker Faire: Video Head

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This is a really cool project by Eric Lundquist. He will be displaying his Video Head at Maker Faire in Austin. I can't wait to see it in person.

The Video Head Project was inspired by the amazing art project called Drum Head by Murat Konar. In a attempt to take it to the next level, the Video Head will have multiple mouth and eye expressions in order to display a wider range of emotions and interactions. The foam head gives the image an eerie lifelike 3-d appearance.

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Posted by: Disney on October 17, 2008 at 9:48 AM

New Tech, Old Effect

This pretty cool, but conceptually has been a part of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland since the 60's.


Posted by: Dave Chatting on October 17, 2008 at 11:32 AM

Yes, nice work.

The Disney one of Madame Leota (http://www.doombuggies.com/secrets_seance.php) is slightly different as it projects from the inside the mask. There was an MIT Media Lab telepresence project in the early 1980s called Talking Heads that used this technique too - Steward Brand talks about it in his book "The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT" - but I can't find anything online about it now...


Posted by: no in particular on October 17, 2008 at 3:09 PM

Bowie did something like this for his earthling tour back in 97.


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