 hosted by phillips data :: subscribe (xml) :: email me January 27, 2012 :: sound of silenceboy + (deaf) girl :: it's borderline saccharine :: but couldn't stop watching :: click below to watch Continue reading "sound of silence" :: Comments (0) January 26, 2012 :: data vizcommuting in chicago creates a haunting image :: from eric fisher :: "[The map] is paths from one geotagged tweet to the next by the same person, routed along the most heavily geotagged path in between." :: read the details here: http://gapersblock.com/merge/archives/2012/01/23/technology-follows-us-home/ :: Comments (0) January 25, 2012 :: l'horizon :: surreal photos of surf cityromain laurent :: whimsical trick photography :: see more at http://www.romain-laurent.com/work/lhorizon/ :: (via mymodernmet) :: Comments (0) January 24, 2012 :: insecure :: by michael shevlina new book written by my friend Michael Shelvin (only $2.70 as a digital read) :: http://www.amazon.com/Insecure-ebook/dp/B006X3164C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327399735&sr=8-2 :: Comments (0) :: power of music"Jack Leroy Tueller, at age 90, recounts a remarkable experience he had in WWII." :: click below to watch :: Continue reading "power of music" :: Comments (0) January 23, 2012 :: "a girl like me"teen filmmaker Kiri Davis created this documentary to explore questions of race :: click below to watch :: skip to 3:20 to see her reconduct Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test" with young African American children :: read more at http://www.understandingrace.org/lived/video/index.html Continue reading ""a girl like me"" :: Comments (1) January 20, 2012 :: president sings al greenclick below to watch :: Continue reading "president sings al green" :: Comments (0) :: underground cityberlin artist evo constructs a city below ground :: turning visitors into giants :: read more herehttp://weburbanist.com/2011/08/06/rural-underground-city-pops-up-beneath-a-german-field/
:: Comments (1) January 19, 2012 :: republican candidates yearbook photosclick below and see if you can guess who's who :: Continue reading "republican candidates yearbook photos" :: Comments (7) :: drumming an animation"Bartek Szlachcic pointed a motion-capturing camera towards himself while he played a drum solo. He then converted the trajectory of his arm movements into simple black lines set across a three-dimensional field, animating the arcs of each individual drum hit in real-time." :: read more at http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/drummers-gestures-beautifully-illustrated-in-portrait-of-the-ghost-drummer :: click below to watch Continue reading "drumming an animation" :: Comments (0) January 18, 2012 :: coloring black & white photosbeautiful if not bizarre results come from colorizing classic b&w images :: see more at :: Comments (1) January 17, 2012 :: snow forts!some slight nostalgia out here in sunny cali for the bitter, bitter cold of the northeast :: see more at http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2012/01/16/a-collection-of-15-awesome-snow-forts :: the homemade ones are the best :: (via neatorama) :: Comments (0) January 16, 2012 :: painting typewriter Tyree Callahan has hacked a typewriter to become a color palette :: the "chromatic typewriter" paints its words :: the spacebar creates negative space :: see more at http://hifructose.com/the-blog/2050-tyree-callahans-chromatic-typewriter.html :: (boing boing) :: Comments (2) January 13, 2012 :: "pig chase" :: a video game for you and pigsfrom the utrecht school of the arts :: lead a pig to the target and you win :: and just when you thought those flashing lights might be cruel and unusual :: "[R]esearchers at Wageningen University [in the Netherlands], in the course of their research on ethical livestock farming, noticed that pigs like to play with dancing lights...European regulations currently require that pig farmers provide mentally-stimulating activity for their pigs in order to reduce boredom" :: click below to watch a demo :: (via mother jones) Continue reading ""pig chase" :: a video game for you and pigs" :: Comments (0) January 12, 2012 :: centenarian portraitsKarsten Thormaehlen takes beautiful portraits of people 100 years old (or older) in his newest photographic project :: see more of his work here: http://www.karstenthormaehlen.com/ :: (via visual news) :: Comments (3) FOR PREVIOUS POSTS CLICK HERE |
