3.5 out of 5

While in love with auto sports (hill climbs!), I’m just not geared for this.

Automotive

…you play as an engineer working in a semiconductor factory designing integrated circuits based on specifications provided to you. What does it have to do with communism? You’ll have to play to find out!
http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com

Games

Simple concept, beautiful results.

smaller scale:

Art, Computer Graphics

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/100-really-creative-business-cards/

Design

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3.5

Music

“Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans.”

Art, Computer Graphics, Links, Tech

Watch as Erik Weihenmayer experiments with the Brainport Vision Device, a revolutionary new technology enabling a blind person to see with his tongue. Mounted on Weihenmayers head is a small video camera which translates visual information to a credit card-size tongue display. Four-hundred tiny pixels present electrical patterns on his tongue, which Weihenmayers brain then interprets as a visual picture in three-dimensional space. Watch as he uses the device to read words and numbers on note cards, to play tic-tac-toe and stone-paper-scissors with his daughter, and to rock climb. To learn more about Brainport, go to www.wicab.com.

I’m absolutely floored by this. This can go beyond the blind, training anyone to see behind or beside them.  -j

Tech

High levels of awesomeness.

http://www.neave.com/television/

Be sure to check out the rest of the site.

http://www.neave.com/

Art, humor

A modern-day creator of “twittering machines,” Arthur Ganson uses simple, plain materials to build witty mechanical art. But the wit is not simply about Rube Goldberg-ian chain-reaction gags (though you’ll find a few of those). His work examines the quiet drama of physical motion, whether driven by a motor or by the actions of the viewer. Notions of balance, of rising and falling, of action and reaction and consequence, play themselves out in wire and steel and plastic.

Ganson has been an artist-in-residence at MIT (where the Lemelson-MIT Award Program named him an Inventor of the Week, and where his show “Gestural Engineering” is ongoing) and has shown his work at art and science museums around the world — including a current, held-over show at the phaeno in Wolfsburg, Germany.

“Ganson’s work isn’t ruled by a clockwork philosophy; it is open to whatever truths about life and motion his wires, motors, oil, and chains will lend themselves to. His pieces are not, like de Vaucanson’s duck, scrupulous mechanical copies of living things, but are instead suggestive — or, as Ganson puts it, “gestural,” frequently grounded in biological and bodily processes but never limited to them.”

Harvey Blume, the Atlantic

Art

Well?, it’s an Aston Martin Vantage with a V12 engine. So what do you think it’s going to be like?

It is fantastic. It’s wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

What it makes me feel though, is sad.

I can’t help thinking that thanks to all sorts of things, the environment, the economy, problems in the Middle-East, the relentless war on speed, that cars like this will soon be consigned to the history books.

I just have this horrible, dreadful feeling that what I’m driving here is an ending.

Goodnight

Automotive

http://taxidermia-themovie.com/

TAXIDERMIA contains three generational stories, about a grandfather, a father, and a son, linked together by recurring motifs. The dim grandfather, an orderly during World War Two, lives in his bizarre fantasies; he desires love. The huge father seeks success as a top athlete — a speed eater — in the post-war pro-Soviet era. The grandson, a meek, small-boned taxidermist, yearns for something greater: immortality. He wants to create the most perfect work of art of all time by stuffing his own torso. Historical facts and surrealism become intertwined as magical realism, like in the works of Gabriel García Marquez or the Hungarian writer Lajos Parti Nagy; the script is based on two of the latters stories. Palfi added the third story, that of the grandson the taxidermist.

Art, Entertainment, Movies