November 2009
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October 2009
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“Bargh at Yale, along with Lawrence Williams, now at the University of Colorado,...”
– via boston.com
September 2009
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“Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You’re...”
– Simon Hoggart (via simko)
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August 2009
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July 2009
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WatchMade this for fun over the weekend using Processing and OpenGL. Please leave feedback in the comments. It’s just a simple visualizer intended for house parties and the like. It was my first foray into the Sonia music library for Processing and my first time working with OpenGL. musical credit: Wolves (Song of the Shepard) by Iron and Wine from The Shepard’s Dog
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June 2009
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Watchan interview with Dr. George Vaillant, the director of the Grant Study, the longest running study on happines.
read the article.
“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”
– Michael Caine (via rulesformyunbornson)
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“This man, in a previous, Beirut-based life, had been a Marxist, so I couldn’t...”
– Oh, Jeffrey Goldberg, you did it again. Wit and wisdom.
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May 2009
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WatchBeautiful synthesis of idea and medium a great expression of the power of abstraction.
You are watching a home video my father shot on his camera in the mid-1980s of my sisters and me in the backyard.
Using C and Max/MSP, I wrote a program that replaces each pixel of the video with the memory address where that pixel is stored inside the computer. The address, written in hexadecimal, is colored...
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349. It's not enough to be proud of your ancestry....
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Thank you A.O.Scott.
I have not read the novel by Dan Brown on which this film (directed, like its predecessor, “The Da Vinci Code,” by Ron Howard) is based. I have come to believe that to do so would be a sin against my faith, not in the Church of Rome but in the English language, a noble and beleaguered institution against which Mr. Brown practices vile and unspeakable blasphemy. [link]
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Oh, my God, you gotta try this pollen. It’s so... →
culturite:
Freebasing bees.
Hilarious piece by Noah Baumbach.
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WatchBees are a big deal. Watch and learn.
Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature’s important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance.
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WatchGreat synthesis of digital art and physical space.
Highly scalable real-time 3d projection mapping engine. Optimized to apply to different 3d scenes with little effort. These are actual 3D shapes made from white card and glue, placed on a table in front of a projector. To do this, I make the same model in a virtual world on the computer with a virtual camera. The virtual camera in placed in the...
April 2009
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Watch“Sounds of Complexity” is an artistic project that moves from the field of cognitive science and neurosciences. It’s an audiovisual performance in which the sound ma- terials and the visual mappings are the consequence of very complex and stratified processes that hardly can be represented with symbolic forms in our world. It’s an at- tempt to make audible and visible the dynamics and the ...
WatchArthur Ganson expresses the deepest of thoughts through the grace of machines. He’s an artists of the heart who uses metal and movement to emote. His work is delicate and powerful existential and real; it’s art to the deepest level. Watch this right to the end.
Watchyes.
“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
– Herman Wouk (via simko)
Watch12_Series is a new generative multichannel computer installation by Telcosystems (NL). The installation is an audiovisual horizon comprised of twelve identical image and sound generating machines. The software for these machines is based on the idea of evolution, implementing forms of audiovisual imitation, mutation and recombination, aiming for the emergence of captivating complexity from a...
WatchMore great work from Robert Hodgin, Flight 404. Made with Processing.
March 2009
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