Having trouble deciphering what type of electronic music you are listening to? House, trance, techno, breakbeat, jungle, hardcore, downtempo and all their sub-genres are explained by Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music….tongue in cheek with examples. Know your music. Whatever.
Artist David Hockney has come up with a theory of how past masters painted using lenses and camera obscura and explains in amazing detail how they achieved the photo-realistic effects so thoroughly admired…..Drawing Aids to Perspective illustrates some of the methods used.
Matt Stewart possesses either excellent sense of timing, or unlimited patience. Either way his photographs are a treat to look at.
Once you’ve tried to change the world you find it’s a whole bunch easier to change your mind.
Author Unknown
As many of you know some of the marble pieces from the Parthenon in Athens are at the British Museum. I got to see them when we visited London back in 2001 and found them breathtaking. I soon started thinking that it was wrong. They were out of context. Yes, most museums around the world have material from other places…But these were no objects. They are part of an architecture. They must be experienced as a whole. Marbles Reunited wants to see the Parthenon Sculptures reunited and displayed as one complete work of art in the New Acropolis Museum now being built in Athens. Take a look, and you’ll soon agree.
Jim Gasperini has invented Time for Space a simple way to see 3D images. He “wiggles” a stereo pair creating a most superb effect. Many other examples are available on his website. Want to give me a gift? Send me a stereo camera!!! I definitely want to go 3D from now on…
SMS is David Crawford’s study through photography of people’s behavior in the subways of different cities. But these aren’t ordinary photos…They are stop motion.
Roddy Lumsden has what I consider the best trivia site…Vitamin Q. Obscure, fascinating, irresistibly interesting.
Can you imagine what 320.000 ping-pong balls rolling down a hill would look like? Don’t miss the videos! What a fun way to study avalanche dynamics!
It was so cool when I would get a new CD and suddenly find that it contained a hidden track. That hardest one I ever found was in Blind Melon’s Soup album…It is song number 0! Hit play when the first song starts immediately rewind and you’ll find it…right before the first song! The Hidden Song Archive is a comprehensive list of well, you guessed it…hidden songs. Look for your favorite Cd’s maybe you are missing a hidden masterpiece!
Some sites are Worth mentioning even if everyone else already did. Tinygrow is a flash based program that is quite addictive. Surrender to its beauty!
Wanna know what’s one of the coolest most creative design companies?
SUCK UK
They have an excellent collection, and most of their products are truly original. Hey, they are an inspiration! Some things I like: The Key Bottle Opener, Low Volt Light, and the Salt&Pepper Shakers…(can’t link to them though).
And you thought that garbage is only an earthly problem?
According to NASA Orbital Debris Program Office approximately 11,000 objects larger than 10 cm are known to exist, orbiting around the Earth. Known as space debris they are remnants from rockets, and space exploration. All of this garbage is constantly tracked in order to avoid a collision. One of the Space Shuttle’s windows was once cracked by an orbiting flake of paint. I read somewhere that there is a piece of chicken and a toothbrush that escaped from MIR orbiting as well…
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