Evolution of the form on the wall - concept provoked by the FLUID DVD

Doing a new piece called "new tech" today. I've been out of the blogosphere for a while and trying to get back into it. A friend of a friend wanted me to review this new product he's got called "FLUID". - perhaps a place to start. Demo and DVD lives at: http://www.thefluid.com/.

It's a DVD that plays on your TV, laptop, etc (I've got mine playing on the tv). It's an interesting piece of work that displays a sort-of visual moving art. If I was lucky enough to have a plasma screen mounted on the wall, I'd loop it so my room looked like the 22nd century Louvre. But, I'm "stuck" with my 32" Sony which still is quite cool.

The concept behind it is interesting if you think about it. Not necessarily the DVD itself, but the concept of moving art. People are always looking for new ways to display visual images that are important to them. It started with the cavemen and their first writings on the wall, to the renaissance painters mixing new hues and colors hanging canvas on stone walls of the elite, to common users able to hang posters or pictures on their walls and frames.

But as thin TVs and new "LCD paper" become common-place, it allows us to think about different ways of adding forms to our walls. It could be something like a rotation of family pictures, or a downloaded photo you got of the Mona Lisa (think iTunes for photos), to a new moving type of canvas.

It's an interesting concept to think about, and this dvd has gotten me thinking about people and how they express their interests on their "walls".

Until next time...