Tagtool

From Groningen, Netherlands: SaHal´s Tagtool Mini and his live painting performances

Dave Nutty, a reMaker (Glass, Brass, Gadgets from Trash) and Ex-Corporate Clone turned Artistic Fool dares to dazzle and delight the public with Things of glass, brass, and other trash. At the Sonoma County Maker Kids Mini Maker Faire 2010, he presented his LEGO Tagtool Mini.

For some time my friend Gassi has been talking about a Tagtool All-In-One he constructed. At the Chink Chank he finally came over, left these pictures of his Hifi DIY Tagtool, constructed a new Tagtool Mini at the Workshop and, as far as I know, is now already building a third one.

Ange Taggart, one of the artists taking part in a project called Nine Trades of Dundee, has started to use the Tagtool and is writing about her experiences on her blog.

Recently, I had a really great opportunity drop into my lap. Reversing the time machine several months, I built a Tagtool Mini for a friend’s birthday. He owns an art gallery in Seoul, South Korea and is actively involved in performance-related tomfoolery both in the gallery and out, so he has had a few chances to showcase Tagtool performances alongside some other friends’ music. As luck would have it, he is also a professor at a university just outside Seoul.

Sam Thongrong from Chicago has been busy with some DIY Tagtools. Number one features an RGB LED glowing in the currently selected color, as we first saw in Fred Paulino’s and Lucas Mafra’s Gambiological Tagtool. And Number two sets the record for the smallest Tagtool – 2.5 x 1.75 inches.

Felixe from Mexico built a Tagtool Mini – here are some pictures and a video from his first public session at a bar in Cholula.

Aylwin Lo from Toronto has built a Tagtool Mini and used it at a rooftop party together with CoGe. In his own words: “I set up two overlapping projectors – one running CoGe and the other running TagTool – for this event. People were absolutely thrilled to have their creations become part of the visuals!”

The guys from Klubarbeit in Fieberbrunn, Tyrol, have built a Tagtool Mini to complement their suitcase. Some might remember their use of a ski slope as a projection screen…