The wonderful experimental video Oops and the phenomenology of film.
There are many reasons to love the 10 minute video Oops by Chris Beckman only one of which is that it can serve as a great reference for a discussion of the phe...
Category: art
Comparative advantage made tangible: 100 million hand-painted ceramic sunflower seeds.
The artist Ai Weiwei at Tate Modern: It turns out that each seed is in fact a unique porcelain replica, hand-painted in Jingdezhen and fired at 1,300 degrees. S...
Right wing frustration over Colbert’s testimony to Congress is the best news I’ve heard this week.
Our society and economy would be much, much better off if debaters, especially on television, were able to call each others’ bluff with the simple use of ...
A massive multiplayer movie experience.
Reading Michael Heilemann’s celebrated investigation of how the character of Chewbacca was crafted, it struck me that movies are multi-player text-based v...
Are Bansky’s graffiti examples of augmented reality?
An example of a Banksy intervention (graffiti!) that introduces a new meaning by changing the visual interpretation of a physical space.
Marble, glass, metal.
Galata by Konstantin Grcic for Marsotto Edizioni
art: spelling tables
corner #2 by ron gilad LA tall table by Faktura
art: automatic summaries of books.
AutoSummarize by Jason Huff: “The top 100 most downloaded copyright free books summarized using Microsoft Word 2008’s AutoSummarize 10-sentence function a...
The best art transforms the way you see the world.
I’m struck by the impact that The Thick of It has made on me. In the last two days, I’ve come across two real life stories of political ineptitude t...
Being there, or not.
Liu Bolin Camoflague Fred Lebain A Spring in New York Felice Varini Gillian Brown, constructed photographs Georges Rousse Active camouflage & Perspective
A map of the so-called flat world.
A map of the most and least remote places on Earth. (via MeFi)
Chinese Barbizon
Peter Hessler‘s essay “Chinese Barbizon” in the The New Yorker is fantastic: gentle characterizations, arresting ideas, fascinating details. It dovetails ...
Paper art.
Jen Stark Noriko Ambe Charles Clary