Facadeprinter: For When You Can’t Be Bothered To Paint It Yourself

Facadeprinter FP2 01

Let me axe you a question: do you like rad things? In the possible event that you do, I invite you to keep reading. If you answered no, keep reading anyway, you insufferable crank, and let’s turn that frown upside-down, yeah?

Utilizing a steady supply of paintballs and compressed air, the Facadeprinter is an art project by three German industrial designers with a serious need to leave their mark. An infrared sensor measures the distance to the wall, a USB key supplies the image to be fired, the software compensates for driving power and ‘ballistic distortion’, and the gun does the rest. I don’t know about you, but I’d say this qualifies as rad. For sure.

To be honest, there isn’t much more I can say that a video can’t. So how about I just poke your goddamn eyes out with one. How about two?

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7299485[/vimeo]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9889154[/vimeo]

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Ty Dunitz
Ty Dunitz
Ty is an illustrator who stays up too late and must wear glasses. You can follow him on Twitter if you want to (@glitchritual), but he's just gonna throw your stupid PR crap in the garbage, so don't email him.

3 COMMENTS

  1. I hate graffiti, even when it looks awesome. This just make it easier for any Tom, Dick, or Harry to be a “graffiti artists”. Seriously, is this something we really need? It is not rad but complete non-sense.

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