Sep 18 2007Magical Basket Mirror Baffles The Mind
Daniel Rozin's Weave Mirror looks like a flat piece of basket on the wall. But it is actually a magical mirror to another dimension.
The mirror is an assembly of 768 motorized and laminated C-shaped prints along the surface of a picture plane that texturally mimics a homespun basket. A seemingly organic smoky portrait comes in focus to the sound of clacking steps made by the sculpture’s moving parts. The Weave Mirror paints a picture of viewers using a gradual rotation in greyscale value on each C-ring.
I have no idea what all that means, but I'm pretty sure it's just a cover-up for the portal to hell they've opened in that basket. Whatever you do, don't touch the image that appears. Because, uh, I saw my doppelganger once and had to kill him because I heard if you don't then you die. Turns out it was just a guy dressed similar. I still think 30 years is a little unfair.
Magical video after the jump.
Magical Basket Mirror Baffles The Mind [engadget]
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Reader Comments
1. chris - September 18, 2007 9:39 AM
Fuck that basket thing, what the hell is that blue piece in the other room???
2. first - September 18, 2007 9:40 AM
First n00blings!
3. nominus - September 18, 2007 10:56 AM
Pretty neat idea and concept, but it has crappy resolution. Needless to say: I'm not going to buy one of these. What the heck was that round thing on the wall at the end of the video? That was fucking awesome.
4. Double - September 18, 2007 11:35 AM
alien technology at its finest
5. pats - September 18, 2007 11:42 AM
what do they want in return? the formula to transparent aluminum?
6. Brad - September 18, 2007 2:21 PM
Meh... Been done before. Google for wooden mirror.
http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html
7. jo - September 18, 2007 7:18 PM
nice. what museum is that at?
8. NekoNeko - September 19, 2007 2:35 AM
Wow, that's like a crappy version of AhHa's Take on Me video. But without the music or cute girl. Or those wierd guys with weapons.
OK, so maybe it's not a version of AhHa's Take on Me video.
9. commandant power poof - September 19, 2007 8:07 AM
my hair! my beautiful hair!
10. Gary Rosetree - September 19, 2007 9:05 PM
This is a wierd coincidence, but I happened to see that gallery last Saturday and it's really facinating. I did the same thing as the guy in the video and walked around back. You cant see it well in the vid, but there are rows of identical motors with bundles of colored wires protruding. As for the "blue piece", I walked right up to it and I still don't know what it is.