November 7th, 2009
SPAMCONSUMER contributed to the exhibition “Urban Experiences – Workspace Berlin“.
Art, Design, Fashion, Architecture, Film, Music – Oktober 2009
Das Haus am Köllnischen Park, Berlin
Live Show with 6 Video-Projectors & Live Audio Performance.
scumskullz are constructed from black and white pixels on a 5×5 grid. the result is a space-Invaders-like pixel fighter – friendly or aggressive, chaotic or regular. it started out as an icon design study and has grown into a collaborative online art project with contributors from all over the planet. but beware: not every 5×5 bitmap is valid. there are certain constraints the anatomy of a scumskull has to meet. like almost every living creature on earth they are symmetric and contiguous. they have to touch all boundaries of the construction grid, too. an exhaustive search showed that according to this definition there are 12,209 possible scumskullz.
scumskullz usually live on computer screens and stickers on the streets, but they can be made out of everything you can imagine. bathroom tiles, legos, food, rubber stamps, lamps or truetype fonts. there are even rumors of scumskullz spotted on acid sheets and pills of E. visit the website to witness the global infiltration, learn more about the anatomy, view all discovered species and create your own scumskull.
the scumskullz crew consists of interdisciplinary design and IT experts based in munich, bavaria.
Das Haus am Köllnischen Park …
…wurde bis 1990 von SED-Parteischule “Karl Marx” sowie von der Bezirksparteischule “Friedrich Engels” genutzt.
Urban Experiences Workspace Berlin fand im größten Raum des Gebäudes, im Kinosaal statt.
In enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Helden von “BerlinBeamBoys“.
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October 16th, 2009
It`s a long time tradition in germany for kids who attend to first grade to carry a “cone” on their first day at school filled with sweeties.
There are kids who are fine with the cones you could get at the stores, there are some kids who prefer to create them on their own and then there are kids who have a very special idea of their cone.
In this case Xaver wanted to have a space cone with robots and spaceships on it. Getting a blank body and a few hours later a pretty unique cone was ready for first day of school.
It was sprayed first for space look and then being attached with cut-out rubber characters.
What is a School Cone?
A “Schultüte” (or School Cone, even though the word “Tüte” translates more as “bag” from German), often also called Zuckertüte (”sugar bag”, especially in Eastern Germany) is a paper (and later plastic) bag in particular.
When children in Germany set off for their first day in school upon entering first grade, their parents and/or grandparents present them with a big cardboard cone, prettily decorated and filled with toys, chocolate, candies, school supplies, and various other goodies. It is given to children to make this anxiously awaited first day of school a little bit sweeter.
History of the Schultuete
The first day of school is especially sweet and memorable in Germany. On this day each child entering the first grade receives a large cone decorated with paper and ribbon. Inside they find small gifts, school supplies, and lots of chocolate and candy. Often the entire family, including the grandparents, accompanies the child to school. Some of the cones dwarf the five- and six-year-olds.
The tradition of the Schultuete, also called the Zuckertuete or sweet cone, seems to have originated in the eastern cities in Saxony and Thuringia about 200 years ago. They were originally provided by the child’s godparents and hung from a tree in the schoolyard. Children were told that when the “fruits” on the tree were ripe enough to be picked, then they themselves were ready for school.
In Germany, the first day of school has long been acknowledged as a special occasion with customs that have been documented back to the middle ages. Depending on the region, it may have taken the form of a special church service, at the conclusion of which the children may have been led in a procession to the school, or they were presented with cookies that had been baked in the shape of letters or the pieces of slate that, until well into the middle of the last century, where used for the first tentative tries at writing legible letters and numbers.
The custom of the “Schultuete” proper goes back to about 1810, to Saxony and Thuringia at Germany’s easternmost borders, where sweets were given to the children on this day. The first documented report of the cone-shaped Schultuete proper comes from the city of Jena in 1817, closely followed by reports from Dresden (1820) and Leipzig (1836). It started in the bigger cities but spread quickly to the small towns and villages, soon becoming an institution all over Germany.
Spreading from city to city and then eventually to all of Germany, the Schultuete has always been representative of the times. During the period before WWI the face of the last emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II often adorned the cones. Under Hitler, the cones were given a uniform size symbolizing the equality of those within the “Aryan” race. One woman I know who grew up in the GDR describes how her parents bought special “west” candy for her Schultuete from hard currency stores allowed to sell products from West Germany. Today many parents buy cones pre-decorated with their children’s favorite cartoon or book characters.
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Categories: Drawing, Illustration, SPAMCONSUMER, graffiti, mylander |
Tags: character, comic, cone school, Drawing, figure, gallery, helmet, illustration, milan, monster, roboter, robots, school-cone, schultüte, sketch, space, space invaders, transformer, xaver | No Comments
March 16th, 2009
Made out of pixels, LEGOs, and even tiles on the street. Found on walls, on blotter, and scored on pills of e.
The genetic code is 25 bits of black or white on a 5×5 grid. Out of 12,209 viable designs only a fraction have been discovered / named / created in the lab. Scumskullz are sofa king rad.
Exhibitions in Munich/Germany, Zaragoza/Spain, Katowice/Poland, Vilnius/Lithuania.
Browse the whole SCUMSKULLZ gallery and see all of the pics (191 images!)
Scumskullz are constructed from black and white pixels on a 5×5 grid. the result is a space-Invaders-like pixel fighter – friendly or aggressive, chaotic or regular. It started out as an icon design study and has grown into a collaborative online art project with contributors from all over the planet. But beware: not every 5×5 bitmap is valid. There are certain constraints the anatomy of a scumskull has to meet. like almost every living creature on earth they are symmetric and contiguous. they have to touch all boundaries of the construction grid, too.
An exhaustive search showed that according to this definition there are 12,209 possible Scumskullz.
Scumskullz usually live on computer screens and stickers on the streets, but they can be made out of everything you can imagine. Bathroom tiles, legos, food, rubber stamps, lamps or truetype fonts. there are even rumors of scumskullz spotted on acid sheets and pills of E. Visit the website to witness the global infiltration, learn more about the anatomy, view all discovered species and create your own scumskull. The Scumskullz crew consists of interdisciplinary design and IT experts based in munich, bavaria.
Every Scumskull is constructed from black or white pixels on a 5×5 grid.
Additionally there are certain constraints on the shape of a Scumskull:
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A Scumskull must be symmetric to the vertical axis. |
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A Scumskull must be contiguous. That is, all black pixels have to be connected. Diagonal connections are allowed. |
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A Scumskull must be expletive. That is, the bounding box of the black pixels of a Scumskull must cover the whole 5×5 grid. Or, there must be at least one black pixel on the leftmost and rightmost columns and the topmost and bottommost rows of the grid |
Browse the whole SCUMSKULLZ gallery and see all of the pics (191 images!)
Visit the SCUMSKULLZ website by SCUM SUPPLIES INC.
Categories: Illustration, Pixelart, SPAMCONSUMER |
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