By Peter on 15. Apr, 2010 | 2 Comments
Kapitaal is a “typo-animation” by Studio Smack that illustrates just how much visual stimulation (mostly advertising) we experience in a day. It takes you through a first-person perspective of urban scenes with everything omitted but graphics.
SepiaTown takes the spot where you’re standing and shows you what it looked like a long time ago. It uses geotagged, vintage photos uploaded by users.
The real payoff of this NPR piece is a narrated video that leads us through actual photographs of Space from our Milky Way to a zoomed-in view of an emergent solar system. From the perspective of future lifeforms in such a place, we’re quite the advanced alien civilization.
Taken at 3am by Miroslaw Swietek, these are some of the prettiest photographs I’ve seen in a while.
A poet and web developer, Johnathon Williams appears to be a man after my own heart. I recently came across a poem of his in The Morning News in which he rather successfully draws a connection between Buddhism, gaming, and mundane contemporary experience.
Christian Bök’s strategy for having a poem outlast him is to inject it into the most radiation-resilient bacteria known, Deinococcus radiodurans. The poem will be composed of a string of nucleotides.
By Peter on 20. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
If you’re a Londoner with an iPhone, the City Poems app will tell you how far you are from places and events featured in poems.
By Peter on 20. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
Tim Knowles attaches drawing implements to tree branches and records the wind’s effects on paper. The idea and result is lovely, but the process photos just make me laugh.
By Peter on 20. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
The overwhelming EXPO21XX: an online exhibition hall showcasing projects in over 100 university robotics labs from around the world.
By Peter on 19. Apr, 2010 | 3 Comments
An explanatory video on the Internet of Things/System of Systems.
By Peter on 19. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
UK artist Stanza has recorded sounds all over the world, put them into an online open source database, and invites others to contribute their own.
By Peter on 19. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
Nina Katchadourian stacks books together to form new sentences with the titles.
By Peter on 16. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
I was hoping someone would do this: Ken Solomon uses watercolor on paper to recreate what we see in our web browsers. More at All Things Digital, including a little interview.
By Peter on 15. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
In exchange for free meals, guests at this Copenhagen hotel generate electricity on exercise bikes. More from BBC.
By Peter on 15. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
Ericsson’s featuring a series of interviews with twenty visionaries about their thoughts regarding connectivity and mobility in 2010.
By Peter on 15. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
Graphic Designer Chris Peck has taken a photo of every painting in the Museum of Modern Art and condensed it into a two minute slide show.
Idea: watch this every night just before going to sleep, as dream fuel.
