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Ptolemy Elrington makes amazing sculptures from old shopping carts that litter our rivers and canals. See some of his amazing creations that also celebrate nature. Thanks Pekar! Link.

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Flickr photos from Birdfair 2006 in England - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on August 29, 2006, 8:18pm

A cool Phil Collins style drum roll, coming to a mousepad near you!

This selfmade drum trigger pad I made in about 15 minutes for testing Alesis D4 drum module. It consist of synthetic leather (better use mousepad) glued on one side of tin sheet and piezo glued on the other. All this is glued on the spnge for absorving vibnration. For testing purposes it s easiest to solder cable with connector directly on the piezo. - Link

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on August 30, 2006, 12:11pm

Here are some cool circuit bending projects! I love the case for this less than $20 audio looper! We had an article on circuit bending in Make Volume 4 and you can learn more at the author’s anti-theory circuit bending website. - Link

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on August 28, 2006, 4:45pm

Neptune is a band that plays rough musical instruments roughly. If you live in Seattle and you’re into dirty DIY music action, you probably already have tickets for tomorrow night’s show. Check out some photos of their instruments. - Link

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on August 28, 2006, 11:07pm

Chris Brentano says, “So what do you do when you’re designing an album cover and your inspiration is electronics? You design and build a 750 LED sign of the album’s title of course! In designing the cover art for Logistics’ debut album “Now More Than Ever”, Ricky wired up this sign from scratch, with help from his grandfather, and creating a font in the process, which became the album cover. Very cool! Scroll down the page to see the finished result.” There really is no permalink to the article, but it’s worth it to scroll down to August 3rd entry called “Quarter”. Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine on August 28, 2006, 5:50pm

Apple - iPod+iTunes - Rinôçérôse (QuickTime) [Apple]

Apple has moved on with newer ads, but I’ll always be fond of this one for its 3D / architectural album-cover madness. More of a collage or mosaic than a split screen, perhaps? You say potato, I say nitpick.

Music by the diacritically gifted Rinôçérôse.

Thanks to Reynald Drouhin.

Originally from Split Screen on August 25, 2006, 4:45pm

Originally from Split Screen on August 23, 2006, 10:06am

Cory Doctorow:

The WiFi Camera Obscura uses a directional WiFi antenna as an aperture for taking “pictures” the radio energy from WiFi use in a room, and paints those pictures as a movie on a nearby wall. The pictures are lovely oil-slicks of revealed radiation.

Link

(via Joshua)

Originally from Boing Boing on August 29, 2006, 9:35am

Via: Code Z

New media and installation artist Stan Woodard is into numbers. When he describes his upcoming installation at Atlanta’s Spruill Gallery, his speech is littered with figures: 100 images of famous and not-so-famous black people projected in the gallery space, 25 black citizens killed in the Atlanta race riots of 1906, 13% of the US population carrying out a disproportionately large impact on popular culture.

Stan’s new exhibition, titled “I see no one, no one sees me” consists of two separate works in two separate rooms of the gallery. In the first room, images as selected by visitors are projected in a dark space. Visitors can choose from 100 images ranging from Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey to Willie Horton and O.J. Simpson. The artist hopes the selection process will cause viewers to be conscious about whom they literally choose to see and choose not to see. Stan told us he wanted to deal with the phenomenon of people who would cross the street to avoid an unknown black man, but trip over themselves to get close to Michael Jordan. Although the piece is not a direct reaction to the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, it was partly inspired by the event and its upcoming 100-year anniversary commemoration. Wherever possible the images in the front-room piece are taken from web downloads, yet another way of interacting in and with public space in Stan’s view.

The second room draws on Stan’s archeological approach to found materials, amalgamating fabric, concrete, and rusted metal with light and audio elements to suggest personal impulses of simultaneously hiding and showing off in the context of a fatalistic world of materialism and materiality. The show opens on 21 September and runs until 4 November.

Above: “I see no one, no one sees me,” installation view

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Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on August 30, 2006, 10:58am

In an old (1938) issue of Modern Mechanix, we read how an unnamed “French engineer” once proposed, “as a solution to the problem of locating an airport in the heart of any big city, a design for a long orientable runway, which would be mounted on circular tracks atop tall buildings.” This megalithic, concrete, aerospatial earth machine would “orient” itself along specific air routes, hurling

Originally from BLDGBLOG on August 28, 2006, 5:26am

Dirty!

The perfect companion to viral media: Venereal punk music. The review is hilarious, and of course, the mp3 is on the same site as the review. Paper Thin Walls does Dirty Mondays. -PJ

Originally posted by fagette from del.icio.us/fagette, ReBlogged by Paddy Johnson on Aug 29, 2006 at 12:31 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on August 29, 2006, 12:31am

Matt Swann built himself a flash trigger for high-speed photography. Matt says, “My first project after assembling an electronic design lab was to build a flash trigger that I could use for high-speed photography. I thought it would be useful to share not only the finished product but also the reasoning that went into its design in the hopes that others will learn from and improve upon it.” Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine, ReBlogged by Paddy Johnson on Aug 28, 2006 at 01:23 PM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on August 28, 2006, 1:23pm

Link via barryhoggard

Originally posted by fagette from del.icio.us/fagette, ReBlogged by Paddy Johnson on Aug 29, 2006 at 11:48 PM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on August 29, 2006, 11:48pm

Originally from Wooster Collective, ReBlogged by Paddy Johnson on Aug 29, 2006 at 01:15 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on August 29, 2006, 1:15am

a new form of ‘tangible’ visualization, that is capable of dynamically generating intuitively interpretable physical textures. for instance, a coffee cup’s skin changes into the affordance of a thorn-like texture to prevent the user from handling its extremely hot contents. the heat-sensitive material causes the thorns to rise & visually ‘informs’ the user that coffee may be too hot to handle.
see also color-changing cofee cup.
[dynamictextures.com|via core77.com]

Originally from information aesthetics on August 29, 2006, 10:07pm

an electronically enhanced tablecloth designed to cover a kitchen or dining room table that glows beneath objects, creating a visual halo that expands very slowly. when items are removed, the glow fades quickly. by signalling how long things have been left upon it, the tablecloth highlights the ‘flow’ of objects over surfaces in the home. being able to see this hidden dimension of the home might be thought-provoking or simply enjoyable: people might be reminded to tidy up more often, or become reluctant to move things lest they disrupt the patterns they form. the Tablecloth is made using electroluminescent material printed onto a flexible substrate.
see also conversation table & menu vista.
[equator.ac.uk & acm.org (PDF, ACM members only)]

Originally from information aesthetics on August 28, 2006, 8:29pm

a collection of complex molecules represented by balloons, to illustrate that new research steps can be quickly visualised in this way. the authors claim that every chemical compound can be illustrated with balloon modeling, because the balloons automatically adjust every angle in a way that an atom according to modern atom models does. when 3 balloons meet at 1 knot (similar to the atomic nucleus), they “act just like a sp2-hybrid atom which means they form a planary system”. when 4 balloons meet, they form a tetrahedral, & so on
[balloonmolecules.com]

Originally from information aesthetics on August 28, 2006, 12:58am

Henry Fool -trailer (1997, 5.2MB, 2:05 min.)

Henry Fool -clip (1997, 3.3MB, 57 secs)

In a rationally ordered universe Hal Hartley would be feted
as one of the most thoughtful, bold & innovative filmakers
of the last 20 years.
Fay Grim, his sequel to 1997’s Henry Fool is out soon (it’s rumoured
it will premiere at the Toronto Film festival next month).

Just as a taster here’s the trailer from Henry Fool & also a short clip.

If you can’t get to Toronto, my Hartley habit was at least temporarily
assuaged by an excellent DVD of shorts from the indispensable
microcinema international. (Their Wegman
compilation well worth considering too)

Originally by michael szpakowski from DVblog on August 28, 2006, 11:00pm

The Hot Tub (2006, 7.4MB 3.44 min.)

This sitcom, about two loving and sexually adventurous couples,
enjoying sexual intercourse American style,
has an incredibly catchy theme song.

From Channel 102.
Watch more episodes - ‘Sexual Intercourse American Style’

Originally by mica scalin from DVblog on August 29, 2006, 11:00pm

Flickr launches easy-peasy geotagging with photo drag and drop onto a Yahoo! Map. (Click to enlarge screenshot.)

To give it a try, hit up the Flickr Organizr’s new “Map” tab. Flickr will ask what the privacy permissions should be on your photos’ geolocation information (I love you for that Flickr). Then find a photo location via search or map zooming and panning, and drag and drop it onto the map. The location will be listed with the timestamp and camera info on the bottom right. Users will be able to search photos by geolocation (ie, show me all the photos taken on the Brooklyn Bridge), too. See also the previous Lifehacker post on mapping your media, Map yourself.

Update: For some good old-fashioned mapped photo fun, explore the Flickr photo map of public geotagged pics. — Gina Trapani

Originally from Lifehacker on August 28, 2006, 4:17pm