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International Yarn Bombing Day 3

11. June 2011

A shout-out to all our yarn bombing friends out there. We celebrated the day with some local Berlin knitters, decorating the street architecture in Kreuzberg, close to Kottbusser Tor. GRL Germany member C3MY even invented the ‘Yarn Bomb Throwie’ for the occasion … instructable to follow. More Pics

Trike Construcion… 2

21. May 2011

Our bike has arrived, and we’ve put it together…. work starts next week on modding. Who wants to start a vegan ice cream delivery service !?!

Mobile Broadcast Unit aka the “Light Rider” 1

17. April 2011

Following in the grand tradition of our sister cells in New York, Vienna, and Montreal, we have recently secured some funding to produce a Mobile Broadcast Unit – a Copenhagen-style, front-loaded cargo bike, outfitted with a deep cycle battery, power inverter, beamer, laptop, camera, and sound system with fm transmission. This will allow us ...

OriginalGCode: videos + source code

3. April 2011

OriginalGCode is a hardware/software package designed to allow graffiti tags and drawings to be easily captured via a webcam, and export the ensuing shape data to various formats for 2D and 3D fabrication. VIDEOS SOURCE CODE See >> here

Throwie Removal Unit

31. March 2011

Hot on the tail of our LED Throwie action at Kottbusser Tor, and because of the roughly 18,000,000 comments on Heise.de about what we were going to do about the batteries, we built a Throwie Removal Unit (Instructable >> here < <)… an extension painters pole with a large metal plate… and took ‘em all ...

kinecTag v0.1

19. March 2011

Proof-of-concept of new kinect-based graffiti tool, made with Onformative Studio. Using openNI and osceleton to communicate with Processing, and Jerome Saint-Clair’s GML4U library to save GML files.

LED Throwies at Kottbusser Tor 4

15. March 2011

yeah yeah… you’ve probably already seen it here and/or here … but we thought we’d show some more !!! big up’s to Street Lab, SID, the rest of the GRL Germany crew, all our workshop participants, and of course all the little kids that straight up mobbed us and helped us put up 350+ throwies ...

blitzTag at Moritzplatz

‘sup kids ?!? Video still under production, but here are some quick shots from last Friday’s action. Word ‘em Up to Street Lab, Prinzessinen Garten, Licht Piraten, and all the writers and public who came out and DIDN’t draw a penis.

GRL Germany at Street Lab Meets Berlin 1

8. March 2011

As part of the Street Lab meets Berlin Fest, we’re showing blitzTag this weekend, plus doing an intro/behind the scenes talk. We’re also working with local artist Shine in Decay, who will be leading an LED throwie workshop & urban installation. Details below: blitzTag GRL Germany presents blitzTag, a brand new Laser Tag software, with ...

Cognitive Cities & Street Lab Fest

24. February 2011

In case you missed SVG2BVG at transmediale11, GRL Germany will have the complete set-up running for the Cognitive Cities Conference on Sunday Feb 27. CoCities will be a couple days of intense ideas around the future of cities, including a full day of free activities, exhibitions and workshops … 27.02.2011 14-18:00 Open Design City / ...