Tempt and EyeWriter on Kickstarter - almost funded!

Tempt One - EyeWriter - now on Kickstarter
Help kick it over the edge (the pledge goal must be met in order for the funding to go through at all) and get a font, t-shirt, print, poster, or a custom style of your name.

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Vote for The Eyewriter to win funding

Empower 1000 paralyzed people to create & communicate using their eyes by casting your vote (it's free): http://www.notimpossiblefoundation.net/

It's the same kind of Eyewriter machine that Tempt is using. 

Check out the video of Tempt painting a wall with it, at the link above.

This is a Pepsi Refresh Project. Eyewriter is currently #70 so it could use your help.

Your Tag: Big, bright and all over Europe

Tempt and the fantastic Eyewriter

Tempt is one of San Francisco's and Los Angeles' best loved writers, and for years he published the awesome graffiti magazine, Big Time.

In 2003, Tempt was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), a rare neuromuscular disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness and resulting in paralysis. His family, friends, tribe and crews (K2S/STN) have been providing support and holding benefits for him ever since.

You may already have heard about Tempt and Eyewriter, an important system for writing with your eyes, that Graffiti Research Lab has been working on.

His story and photos of his writing

http://temptone.wordpress.com/

Interview with Tempt on Estria's blog

Send Tempt some love on his MySpace comment board

Thanks, Tempt, for being such an inspiration to us all. Wishing you the best!

Thanks GRL for doing things that matter.

The Eyewriter from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

Drawing with light

"Evan Roth’s “Graffiti Analysis 2.0″. Roth is trying to build a “digital blackbook” to capture graffiti tags in code. He’s started with an ingenious – and straightforward – setup for motion capturing tags: a torch taped to a pen, the motion of which is tracked by a webcam. The data is all recorded in an XML dialect that Roth designed – the Graffiti Markup Language – which captures not only strokes but also rates of flow, the location of the tag, and even the orientation of the drawing tool at start; clearly, it’s designed with future developments – a motion-sensing spraycan, perhaps – in mind." Berg has more


Thanks, Evan.