Is Obama Too Thin? (Wall Street Journal)

“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts,...”
— Bertrand Russell

ffffound!

ffffound is a social bookmarking service specifically for images of a personally inspirational...

link

Shooting modes...

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about...”
— 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...”
— Gore Vidal

“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems...”
— Arthur Koestler

Dynamic City Foundation

A photoset on flickr.

“The avant-garde is defined more by what it is against than...”
— Bjarke Ingels [source]

“A good artist makes those things that nobody asks for. He...”
— Joep Van Lieshout [source]

“The crisis of the spectacular demands a call for a new...”
— Peter Eisenmann [source]

“Helping other people helps me Having guts always works out...”
— Stefan Sagmeister (Designer)...

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...

KMODDL

Kinematic Models For Design Digital Library KMODDL is a collection of mechanical models and...

Tactical Sound Gardens

The internet is series of CAT5.

Exhibit A: Generative Systems Theory or Game Theory or Emergent Patterns orFeeding time at the...

HyperPhysics

Navigable tree of physics topics and papers below each leaf: Examples: HyperPhysics See also...

The Long Now Then

“Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has...”
— Sidney J. Harris

“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied...”
— Jef Raskin apparently on a...

“…composing messages on the iPhone is a little like why...”
— 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...

NBP

encountered here

Martian Graffiti

originally here

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat....”
— Albert Einstein (apparently,...

“In the case of the movement that the fortuitous find...”
— 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...”
— Jackie Mason

get art out there...

I love how museums in countries other than the US have no qualms about posting a fairly exhaustive...

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...

lisp

click to un-squish

drawing by seeing...

concepts by Jochem Hendricks, results: encountered here

originally here, reminds me of Music of the Magnetosphere

I couldn’t resist this one. Anyone about exactly my...

“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is...”
— Wernher von Braun

apologies for that last post...

Going to post now that the previous posting was likely a tad on the reactionary side. GlassWorks...

oh fucking hell...

Why do I get the feeling myself (camera toss technique) and my good friend Alan Jaras...

Visual Acoustics (play with me)

“This is one of the interesting things about generative...”
— Brian Eno (speaking on...

Two Moon Tango

source

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”
— Henry Kissinger

kinetic mirror display system

reblogged from Information Aestheticsa public display that uses the spaces, people & objects...

This one struck a chord...

original enclosure, What The Duck by Aaron Johnson

“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is...”
— Eugene McCarthy

The Wall Piano

A student interactive piece, quite love the concept. watch a video

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A...”
— Marie Curie

The Play Aesthetic - Programmed/Composed Live...

iPhone + Rolling Shutter Effect

Cross-posting from my other blog..flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment {...

Art by Accident inspires Art (and more)

Continuing the art by accident theme. It goes even further… the 29,000 floating rubber...

Rhea and the Rings.

originally here

Art by Accident...

To those that always define art with terms that rule out any event or creation that takes place...

“Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American...”
— Bagdikian’s Observation

“Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and...”
— George Santayana

Maverick Machines

An exhibition by organized by Jon Bird and Richard Brown, an exhibition inspired by the work of...

“Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be...”
— Kurt Vonnegut

“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the...”
— Stephen Leacock Canadian...

“Brown said: “Do you think I would spend six months painting...”
— Glen Brown vs Tony Roberts, NY...

“Have I given glitter to you before? You look like someone I...”
— Overheard at the cafe

Typography - Light Wanded Photographs

Shatz Orsten Studios: Wand Font There is a photo for each character too! Who wants to undertake the...

Creativity Memes = Profit?

The advertising world is getting really void of creativity, yet producing great ads. How is this...

NP Complete (XKCD)

Barbarian Group's Butterflies

Butterflies, installed, originally uploaded by flight404. Amazing, life mimicking...

Viewing Hint.

That last post is EVEN BETTER if you open a few tabs and start them asynchronously. Usually it is...

Started my experimenting with processing created sketches as...

Alyson Shotz My Living Room Rug in Hyperbolic Space,...

Wind to Light

Micro turbines power individual LEDs, 500 of them, in an installation piece. A similar project...

“I choose the inputs to the process but I don’t choose...”
— Brian Eno

encountered enclosure

77 Million Paintings, by Brian Eno Friday, June 29th from...

Long Now Clock (proto 2)

Long Now Clock (proto 1)

“When I was a child, people used to talk about what would...”
— Daniel Hillis (who inspired...

i know i promised... but!

I swore I wasn’t going to post any of these on any of my blogs… although I do enjoy them...

Rosemarie Fiore

“Good-Time Mix Machine: Scrambler Drawings” 2004 acrylic paint on vinyl 60 ft x 60...

“Man is prone to seek novelty in his environment and, having...”
— Dr. Gordon PaskA comment on...

First Post.

I really enjoyed Annie Leibovitz’s new photo-essay in Vanity Fair, “Men, Beams, and...