Month: August 2012

  • new-aesthetic: Giddy App! Ride Wi-Fi-Equipped Donkeys At A Biblical Theme Park | Fast Company (picture is unrelated) reprise? see Julian Bleecker, WiFi Bedouin project.

  • bashford: Photograph Converted into Base64 Code  24 pages 14cm x 20cm b/w digital  Numbered edition of 100

  • artandsciencejournal: Art & Science Journal Issue One is now available for purchase! (shhhh! it’s a secret for you insiders, the official launch will be in the next few weeks.) Price – $6 Click here to purchase For our first issue of Art & Science Journal, we have included reviews and interviews with artists whose work deals…

  • The presumption of almost all work is that a hierarchy will work effectively, gather information from variety of sources and develop tactics of behaviour. In complex systems, there are many different areas, all moving in different directions and at different speeds, doing localised things which are relevant. The idea that a central processing unit that…

  • emergentfutures: 5 Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter  Industrial robots are getting precise enough that they’re less like dumb machines and more like automated sculptors producing artwork. Case in point: Daishin’s Seki 5-axis mill. The Japanese company celebrated its 50th anniversary last year by using this machine to carve out a full scale motorcycle helmet out of…

  • (via The Rise And Fall Of Grunge Typography | The Awl) I have this, and other issues, in my collection. More than a “Blip in the Continuum”, the aesthetic has been fully metabolized and incorporated into DNA of visual expression.

  • nevver: Visual Thinking 101

  • The best we can do is lean toward the light. Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces (via underpaidgenius)

  • And you learn to build all your roads on today Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges: “You Learn,” a poem about love and loss (via explore-blog)