digitized life

Jul 1

andi-b:

aokie:

gkojaxlabo:

yasaiitame:

nickmcglynn:

Keyboard Waffle Iron

2008-11-13

Jun 20

an interview with Dr. George Vaillant, the director of the Grant Study, the longest running study on happines.

read the article.

Jun 18

“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.” Michael Caine (via rulesformyunbornson)

Jun 9

Derek was born & raised in Bristol, & during the late 50’s & early 60’s fell in love with the music & culture of the West Indian immigrants moving to Britain. He picked up the lingo by hanging around in barber shops & listening, & picked up the groove by buying & selling reggae records around the country.

Now in his late 60’s Derek tours the country armed only with a backpack full of killer tunes, his bus pass & an unquenchable thirst for real ale.

Jun 6

chaos in the mind, peace in the heart.

i like coining phrases.

Jun 5

“This man, in a previous, Beirut-based life, had been a Marxist, so I couldn’t understand why the particular brand of opiate mattered to him. To these secular men, I thought, the assorted confessional categories—Shia, Sunni, Sufi, and for that matter Presbyterian and Lubavitcher—were interchangeable and identically passé.” Oh, Jeffrey Goldberg, you did it again. Wit and wisdom.

Jun 1

sojamo:

soundflow

by Eva Schindling, 2009. A fluid dynamics simulation using sound as input. Using various soft- and hardware applications, a phyiscal three dimensional object results at the end of the transformation chain.
related frozen

May 27

The winner of the Hybrid Art categors of Ars Electronica.

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ENIGMA

Eduardo Kac

The central work in the “Natural History of the Enigma” series is a plantimal, a new life form I created and that I call “Edunia”, a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of myself and Petunia. The Edunia expresses my DNA exclusively in its red veins.

Developed between 2003 and 2008, and first exhibited from April 17 to June 21, 2009 at the Weisman Art Museum [1], in Minneapolis, “Natural History of the Enigma” also encompasses a large-scale public sculpture, a print suite, photographs, and other works.

The new flower is a Petunia strain that I invented and produced through molecular biology. It is not found in nature. The Edunia has red veins on light pink petals and a gene of mine is expressed on every cell of its red veins, i.e., my gene produces a protein in the veins only [2]. The gene was isolated and sequenced from my blood. The petal pink background, against which the red veins are seen, is evocative of my own pinkish white skin tone. The result of this molecular manipulation is a bloom that creates the living image of human blood rushing through the veins of a flower.

2009 Winner of the Ars Electronica award for computer animation.

“HA’Aki” is an expressionistic short film whose images and soundtrack were created simultaneously. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo (CA) uses the term “animbits” to describe the cinematic vocabulary with which she depicts an ice hockey match. Though she herself isn’t all that big a fan of this sport—one that can get excessively raucous at times—the artist let herself be inspired by Eric Nesterenko, a hockey star of the 1960s and ‘70s. The result is a wonderfully unorthodox interpretation of Canada’s national sport. “HA’Aki” was awarded the Golden Nica in the COMPUTER ANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS category.