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“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize...”
– Bertrand Russell
August 2007
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ffffound!
ffffound is a social bookmarking service specifically for images of a personally inspirational nature. This is great because I don’t currently collect this stuff anywhere unless the whole site is bookmark worthy.
Watch
Shooting modes...
“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.”
– Grabel’s Law
“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by...”
– Gore Vidal
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
– Arthur Koestler
Dynamic City Foundation
A photoset on flickr.
“The avant-garde is defined more by what it is against than what it is for. This...”
– Bjarke Ingels [source]
“A good artist makes those things that nobody asks for. He just follows his...”
– Joep Van Lieshout [source]
“The crisis of the spectacular demands a call for a new subjectivity, for a...”
– Peter Eisenmann [source]
“Helping other people helps me
Having guts always works out for me
Thinking...”
– Stefan Sagmeister (Designer) [source]
in the wake of a hurtling star...
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
read the article
The art of "Engine Turning"
Machine for Straight Lines
read more…
Thanks Alan.
São Paulo: A Megatropolis without ADS!
Although the motivations and ultimate direction of the ban are unclear, the immediate result is amazing! A city nearly as large as New York with next to no outdoor advertising. Considering it’s also a city I know to be famous for it’s art, music, street art, graffiti, designers, and new media folks… sounds like heaven to me. read more
KMODDL
Kinematic Models For Design Digital Library
KMODDL is a collection of mechanical models and related resources for teaching the principles of kinematics—the geometry of pure motion. The core of KMODDL is the Reuleaux Collection of Mechanisms and Machines, an important collection of 19th-century machine elements held by Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace...
Tactical Sound Gardens
The internet is series of CAT5.
Exhibit A:
Generative Systems Theory
or
Game Theory
or
Emergent Patterns
or Feeding time at the house with 130 cats.
or
All of the above.
evoba eht fo llA : rewsnA
HyperPhysics
Navigable tree of physics topics and papers below each leaf:
Examples:
HyperPhysics
See also HyperMath
The Long Now Then →
“Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an...”
– Sidney J. Harris
“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way....”
– Jef Raskin
apparently on a shoe kick today with quotes
“…composing messages on the iPhone is a little like why women might choose...”
– John Maeda
Emergent Patterns...
recursive dune patterns on mars
encountered here
Go Outside, Look Up!
Strange things...
…are often encountered when you are guessing at what a URL might be for a site you’ve only heard about:
Looking for the new app called “Skitch”, and found this instead, skit.ch
NBP
encountered here
Martian Graffiti
originally here
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in...”
– Albert Einstein
(apparently, according to Einstein the internet is made of CATS, rather than a series of tubes… and you know what, I think there is evidence in his favor)
“In the case of the movement that the fortuitous find presupposes, one must let...”
– Siegfried Zielinski
light that blinds
an installation by Antony Gromley at the Hayward Gallery. encountered here
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”
– Jackie Mason
get art out there...
I love how museums in countries other than the US have no qualms about posting a fairly exhaustive video walk-through of new exhibitions. Those that want to see it an are in the area will likely do so anyway. Those that cannot, such as myself, still get a chance to experience it (as much as the format will allow anyway):
At the Laboral, Spain… Watch the Opening Day Video
how could I not post this!
live performance + PureData + video capture + quartz compositing + JUGGLING!
more info
Delicate Boundaries...
I think I tried to post this yesterday and forgot to hit send. Anyway i’m really inspired by this work in progress at Eyebeam (continued from residency by the artist at the Madrid Media Lab):
More info about the project
