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There is a new video of a improved version of this
installation over here: vimeo.com/16558492

2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller
Summer 2010
nilsvoelker.com

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  • Nilz plus 1 year ago
    this is really great. It is so simple but very memorizing. Extra credit for being named Nils.
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  • Daniel Hayek staff 1 year ago
    trashy
  • kateopolis 1 year ago
    ;)
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  • Josh Reichlin plus 1 year ago
    Very cool.
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  • AndroidLife 1 year ago
    Gorgeous idea!

    It sounds like the seashore.

    Oddly, it makes me want to lie on it... :)
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  • Simul Shah 1 year ago
    beautiful :-)
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  • allena cherny 1 year ago
    wow!
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  • Risa Dickens 1 year ago
    I love this, so poignant and subtle - featured on Frequency frequency.com/video/blowing-in-wind/198917
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  • Brown 1 year ago
    Mesmerizing.
    I'd like to see longer shots.
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  • toneburst plus 1 year ago
    Very nice indeed :)

    a|x
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  • Nathan Guo 1 year ago
    nice and clever installation~ I saw the pic in Rhizome and today I saw the video. Pretty cool.
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  • Sean Downey 1 year ago
    Love it!
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  • Aleck Crustybunch 1 year ago
    Is it the real sounds that the plastic bags make ?
    No editing ?
    Perfect fake ocean waves for cinema !
  • Nils Völker plus 1 year ago
    It's the real sound, no editing.
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  • Max Uusimaa 1 year ago
    simple and clever, good work!
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  • Noisebud 1 year ago
    beautiful! the sound from the bags too...it'd be cool to work with that sound live as part of the thing
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  • ramjamclub 1 year ago
    A very clever artistic conception using a mundane object.
    The sound does not entirely work in my opinion . If you could separate the sound of wind filling and deflating the bags from the mechanical sounds I believe that would be an improvement. Great video.
  • Nils Völker plus 1 year ago
    The clicking sound of the relays is actually nice when you're right in front of it. Then you can locate from where it comes and hear the sound passing by.

    But you're right it would be also nice, reducing the audio to the sound the bags make. For this reason - and for others - the next version will be changed a bit.
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  • minch tan 1 year ago
    awesome! fun idea with lots of potential, will love to c the installation for myself.
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  • Nils Völker plus 1 year ago
    Thanks to everybody for the very nice feedback!
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  • Robert Brown plus 1 year ago
    It's alive!
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  • Cheryl De Ville 1 year ago
    Soothing and mesmerizing....like following your breath in yoga... very nice
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  • Joe Lacrasse 1 year ago
    I don't like, sorry.
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  • Way cool.
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  • MARZ plus 1 year ago
    I kept thinking they were gona explode! Really calming, love the sound.
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  • Mozbo 1 year ago
    I'd have that on my wall, running constantly. It is truly mesmerizing and beautiful for all its simplicity. SO creative! I wish you could mass produce and sell this. Much better than all the desktop waterfalls and white noise machines combined. Congratulations on a fabulous piece of art!
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  • Paul Steinmann plus 1 year ago
    hey nils, tolle arbeit. grüße aus köln, auch an sven.
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  • Thora 1 year ago
    Ingenious. I like this artist.
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  • Garry B plus 1 year ago
    Brilliant! WOW! and more....Like it alot.
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  • Robert Malcolm 1 year ago
    Bizarre genius!
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  • bolly3gp 1 year ago
    nice work
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  • rick92 1 year ago
    i like ittt it reminds me of the sound of the sea =D
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  • PÖMZ plus 1 year ago
    Sublime !
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  • Benjamin Cooke plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful and well executed! It too bad that plastic bags live forever and choke beautiful sea creatures.
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  • WERC plus 10 months ago
    The beauty of a plastic bag and wind!
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  • nina yu 9 months ago
    great ideas
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  • adel ahd 2 months ago
    just GREAT !
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