3.5 out of 5

Boeing B-47B rocket-assisted take off on April 15, 1954. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Misc

www.kevinbauman.com/100abandonedhouses/

Architecture

Title: Dead pixel in Google Earth

82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.

photo: Jeroen Wandemaker
http://www.helmutsmits.nl

Art

Red dye #40 sold separately.

http://aplusrstore.com/product_detail.php?show=product&pid=326&cid=57

Help Remedies aim to solve simple health issues simply by stripping away the extraneous elements. The packaging is molded from recycled paper pulp and is compostable, and all Help’s products are packaged together at its upstate New York factory which employs adults with learning disabilities. The 500mg acetaminophen pills are as pure as possible, and without the dyes and coatings most brands are fond of using to pretty up meds. Acetaminophen doesn’t cause stomach problems the way aspirin and ibuprofen can. These next-generation bandages are made of hydrocolloid, the same material hospitals use to help wounds heal faster and reduce scarring. These strips are nearly invisible, and should stay on for several days. They are best for minor cuts and blisters. If all that wasn’t helpful enough, 5% of profits are returned to charities that help people without healthcare get healthcare.

http://aplusrstore.com/

Design, Wellness

http://www.chunkymove.com.au/the-company.aspx#2|1|1

Mortal Engine is a new dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change.

A NOTE FROM GIDEON OBARZANEK

As a development from the original solo GLOW, Mortal Engine looks at relationships, connection and disconnection, isolation and togetherness, in a state of continual flux. Conflicts between the self and shadowy other – the other within as well as the other as the other. Duets are seen as both couples and as singular selves struggling to escape inner darkness – mortality, sexuality, desire.

Read more…

Art, Computer Graphics

http://academicearth.org/main-page.html

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education?  At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.  Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.

Misc

Check out the Replica Prop Forum http://www.therpf.com/ – these people have some real passion for recreating props.  Adam Savage mentioned the site in his TED talk.  Both are thoroughly entertaining and worth reading  and watching:

At EG’08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It’s an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive.

Art, Entertainment

Possible more cool than you think.

http://experiments.instrum3nt.com/markmahoney/ball/#
Viable browsers include the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Browser Ball attempts, with only moderate success, to allow the configuration of a seemingly endless array of continuous spaces using multiple overlapping browser windows. Within this multivariate space, users are invited to toss a beach ball both hither and yon. If this sounds like a ridiculous use of everyone’s time, that’s only because it is.

Clicking the link below spawns the main Browser Ball window, which features two buttons:

1. Create Window: this will spawn a new child window. You may position and resize each window as you see fit. Browser windows that overlap will become a part of the continuous space in which the beach ball may move.
2. Reset Ball: sometimes things get a little out of hand and the ball falls off the face of the universe. This is usually my fault. Click the reset button and you’ll be okay.

The main window should also have a beach ball. Fling that puppy around. Make neat spaces for the ball to bounce around in. Create complicated layouts that may crash your browser. Have fun.

Tech

The piece is attached via a network cable to the internet where it monitors news and search results for “Paris Hilton” and “Paris France” and displays an average result in real-time.

Other interesting projects from Tim Schwartz here http://www.timschwartz.org/

Art, Tech

Directed by Spike Jonze
http://www.lakai.com/index.php Via http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/

Art, Music

Automotive

This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ‘405′. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

World Builder

Computer Graphics

….socks blown off.  http://thru-you.com/

Art, Music

Objects of desire :  http://www.pid.se

Design

Evolution of Automotive logos @ neatorama.com.
Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (“Swedish Aeroplane Limited”):

2008 Logo Design Trends: @ www.logoorange.com

more 2008 Trends + 2003 though 2007 @ logolounge.com

links via: http://www.logodesignlove.com/

Design, Links

Augmented realities.

Computer Graphics, Design, Sci-fi, Tech