Special Effects for Moartea Boxelor – Suie Paparude
Concept and Direction: WeAreOm and AA
Cinematography by David Lee
Music by Mihai Campineanu
Production and Post production by Studioset
Production Manager: Mihai Sofronie
Starring: Dina Rotaru, Costel Bajan, Constantin Bobeiu, Fanel Zainea
Phantom Camera work by SloMoments
Special Effects by Modulab
Many thanks to Sony Proffessional Romania , Bogdan Muresanu
Tron costume
I was asked to make another costume like the ones i did for Discoballs.
With a larger budget , this came out.
It is made from 2.3mm electroluminescent flexible wire and 10 mm electroluminescent strip, i used an arduino and a custom board to control each light.
Wiki Leaks TEXT display for Rokolectiv 2011
A fluid based scrolling text display.
A long time has passed since I first talked with a friend of mine, Solidox, about controlling solenoid valves and building a similar type of installation.
Now for Rokolectiv festival and with the recent media upheaval from the moderncyberwar/diplomaticscandal involving wikileaks i decided to built this version of a liquid text display which would print news feeds from wikileaks. Working like a text scroll that you see on every news tv station.
Just like the real news gets squeezed through lots of different media channels and gets retransmitted, in this installation the text message as it travels through the tubes gets out of sync and looses it shape, ending up looking like an unrecognizable, unreadable never ending line of morse code and the liquids are collected and reused in a loop.
As for the actual build it was somehow tricky. It took more trials and errors than usual. The valves came two days before the festival, without any fittings. I had to solder them to fit in place. Actualy a day before Rokolectiv i had no ideea if it’s going to work. Another falure came from the valve itself, because I forgot to mention to the kind gentleman from automatic.ro, who gave me the valves, that i’m going to use a paraffin-hydrocarbon based fluid. Which affected the valve sealant, the tubes, all silicon and latex rubber, the plastic glue i was using and some of the skin of my hands. . All that got soaked in the oil eventually got fatigued and brittle. I ended up replacing the valve’s sealant with pieces of rubber that was cut from an engine’s fuel intake. I have to thank my brother for this and for all the help.
One of the fist test once everything was in place.
Installing at MNAC with Mizdan, who helped me with the programming. This is just before we realized that the oil was slowly eating the installation from within.
Test before the festival using red dye.
Discoballs Stage Costumes
**Update!! New stage costume. More TRON like.
10x time compression of the very long night in which we made the costumes for DIscoballs.
The outfits wore
presented in the opening act for Faithless in Ciuc Summer Fest 2010.
Made with laser about 30 laser diodes and 10 meters of electroluminescent wire, hot glue, arduino, relays and transistors.
3D Bio Printer
Reproductions from sand , urea and bacteria
RAPID PROTOTYPING METHOD USING BIOPRINTING
1.Introduction
The project is describing a low-cost and effective method of three dimensional reproduction using the inject propulsion system form a conventional printer, sand and bio Ink.
The project is describing a low-cost and effective method of three dimensional reproduction using the inject propulsion system form a conventional printer, sand and bio Ink.
Augmented reality experimets
Here are some of my early experiments with augmented reality.
A vitual proection screen
Projection mapping
Marker based tracking
but first print this marker for the camera to track and the software to augment, and so on…
Digital Bio Poesis
This is an installation that I intended to make for a long time.
At first I wanted to track the motion of jellyfish, but it seems
to be very hard to find living jellyfish in Romania.
So the next best thing were some fish i got from the market.
I had some trouble tracking the scalar as you can see in the video
because of it’s reflectivity or lack of it in the infrared range.
Tracking made with ccv
Graphics emotion Particle system
Camera Fire-i with IR bandpass filters
Ir reflector on top to highlight the fish
Rucar Tube
I was invited to this sound workshop.
Tgether with other romanian artist/musicians also Erik Mitkkinen and Derek Holzer.
I made this device as a physical soundwave visulizer for all the field recording done over there.
This footage was taken on Minus’s phone, so ..i’m sorry about the quality.
Tactile
This is a new kind of interaction with a device .
For it to react you have to get your hands into
the machine itself by pushing against the elastic
lycra membrane.
Several users can interact at the same time as
it supports multitouch input.
As for graphic interface bloom keyboard app.
This was made as an installation for Rokolectiv festival.
This is another multitouch interface i made, more on the
MSurface side.
This is a prototype of Tactile i made a few years ago.
Holopix
I often say that this is my first project because by the time it was finished my life changed into what it is today.
Let’s say it’s an official “first work”.
Back in 2004 i was fascinated about the idea of catching a photon in mid air. A few experiments later i made this:
Fires of kuweit on holopix
By 2006 i had this
And here is movie made in MnacLab with my Holopix
Holopix projection device.
http://www.lights.ro/projects/holopix
Now i’m working on a different approach for this kind of system.
Stay tuned for news 
