CONVERSE

HACKING CHUCKS
A set of three films exploring ways to hack a pair of Converse Chucks. To launch the Converse Chuck hacking community on G+ we collaborated with coders, animators and a real life robot to inspire people to get creative with their Chucks.

FILM ONE Parts of the shoe are disassembled to perform as instruments. Together they play an original track only to re-assemble into a more colourful pair of chucks in a crazy stop-frame animation movie.

FILM TWO A robot comes to life after hours to carve a set of Chucks out of a styrofoam block. What you see actually happened. We programmed the robot and left it to it.

FILM THREE Collaborating with an artist/technologist in Italy we kitted out a contemporary dance troupe from Perugia with Chucks that connect via cables from the soles to iPhones. Every movement produces a sound that then was mixed into a track.

We also designed a font and posters from parts of the shoe.

Initial ideas presented to Converse on a TUMBLR