What’s the web’s favorite color? Help Matt Webb find it. Take a photo of your favorite color. And send it in. The background of the website is the average of all the photos sent in. Cooooool.
At the time of this post this is the web’s fav color.
Violent Femmes came out with this record at a time when overproduction in music was at its maximum. This album goes to the other extreme; think punk, but acoustic. Disjointed songs and lyrics, crooked basslines, and a drummer without a kick drum! I remember hearing it for the first time. I was at a friends party and Blister in the Sun started playing. I didn’t know what to think. After that I was hooked. I got to see them many years later in Woodstock 94 and they just transported me back to the time I heard them the first time. If you don’t have this record, get it. A classic.
Today while walking aimlessly across the city I went into a small museum under the Castello Sforzesco. There I found a sculpture I’d seen before. I spent several minutes completely focused on the beautiful curves. It is called Single Forms of Continuity in Space . Sculpted by Umberto Boccioni one of the fathers of futurism. He wanted to capture a body in movement, where you could see the it in different points in space and time.
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While flying to Amsterdam the other day I wanted to write down an idea I had…I took out my trusty notebook opened it to the first un-scribbled page and uncapped my pen. Big black bubbles started forming at the tip. “I am going to stain myself”, I thought and let the ink fall into the paper. I had several flashbacks of psychology lessons in high-school…..Rorschach!!! I hurriedly closed the notebook, and let it dry. After opening it I discovered a perfect Ink Blot. The Original Inkblots!
So, what do you see here? (comment below)
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Kevin Kelly was a founder and executive editor of Wired mag for many years. He is also the writer of several books that I wanna read. Recomendo is objects and things that he..hmm well..recommends! Cool stuff continually added, he even accepts suggestions…
The man that can’t visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
Andr? Breton
Continuing with our talk about scales we couldn’t miss The MegaPenny Project. It is usually very hard to visualize big numbers….The Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: “What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?”
The Blue Marble has the best pictures of the earth ever taken. Assembled from many images these high quality photos are just niiiice. If you have the bandwidth, go for the TIFF files. I can’t get tired of looking at these pictures, they give a sense of proportion to everything; even world conflicts look small.
Kevin Cornell has posted a whole sketchbook of his online. Sketchbook #1 is stream of consciousness drawing. Funny, articulated, and just plain satisfying to look at. This website has been featured everywhere, but I think one more mention is worthwhile. Hell, he even inspired me to have my own skecthbook!
Whenever a dispute arouse with my sister we would solve everything with a quick game of rock, paper and scissors. We each had our own strategy to try to beat each other…If only I had this page my whole childhood could have been easier. At the world RPS society you can learn all the tricks and strategy to be the reigning champion of any brother and sister fight!
Every time I see a Sci-fi movie I am left wondering exactly how big the spaceships really are. Having no earthly or other known scale it is hard to tell how big is a Star Wars spacecraft or a Star-trek ship. Using Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions you can quickly drag and drop the ships to compare them, or measure them against known objects. Excellent!
In 1999 Daniel Rozin created an art installation called the Wooden Mirror. A camera embedded in the mirror captures what is in front of it and relays the information to pieces of wood that tilt to provide different shades of the same color, giving back a pixelated image. Be sure to see the video (28.1MB), because it is truly beautiful.
My cousin Dushan, a man of many talents just setup foto-grafika, a website dedicated to his photographs. All the images work the light as a compositional element. Speed shapes the photons, and blurs become the main focus of these colorful prints. By the way, he is getting married with Alexia in october….Woooo hoooo!!!
The Gutenberg Bible, the first book made with movable type was printed in Mainz Germany around the year 1454-5. Of the about 180 printed only 48 are still in existence. Each one slightly different from the other, because the drawings and rubrication were done by hand. The Ransom Center has scanned their copy and posted it. Be sure to take a look around their website, it explains the many details that make up this wonderful book.
Here is something you never expected to see! British Troops on LSD. This video shows british troops trying to conduct military exercises while on acid. Hilarious. An article from The Guardian about it.
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. They invented LSD to control people, but what they gave us was freedom.
John Lennon
There is one company I’d love to design for: Evasolo. They have a very smart line of products for the home. Each piece is painstakingly designed and manufactured. If they stopped production tomorrow a lot of their objects would attain instant cult status. Go ahead and take a look at their website, beautiful as their objects…but, be sure to turn off the sound, the music sucks big time….I know they’ll never call me to design….they work exclusively with: Tools
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
In essence GPS Drawing is about recording lines using ones journey as a mark making medium. The GPS receiver automatically records your journey like a geodesic pencil. Get it? Go see the gallery.
In the Botanic Garden of the Universidad Central de Venezuela a palm known as the Great Palm of Ceil?n has flowered recently. It is a spectacle that only happens once in the life-cycle of the plant which is in this case more than 40 years old. It is expected to show 12 million flowers and bear 500 kgs of seeds before it dies out next year. So, if you are in Caracas be sure to go check it out.
Thanx to Federico Galavis for this one. Un abrazo primo!
Rotterdam photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek take pictures of people in similar clothes and with similar attitudes and put them together. Known as exactitudes these photos convey a contradiction between being an individual and the uniformity of belonging to a group…I am trying to find out where I fit…
Lifegems takes your ashes after cremation and turns them into a flawless diamond. I still haven’t figured out if I like it or not. At least the idea is novel, and you become an indestructible stone!
