digitized life

cliched.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:37:00 -0500

cliched.

loveallthis: Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:08:23 -0500

loveallthis:

Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles classic, ‘Hey Jude.’

"Bargh at Yale, along with Lawrence Williams, now at the University of Colorado, did studies in which..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:29:58 -0400

“Bargh at Yale, along with Lawrence Williams, now at the University of Colorado, did studies in which subjects were casually asked to hold a cup of either iced or hot coffee, not knowing it was part of the study, then a few minutes later asked to rate the personality of a person who was described to them. The hot coffee group, it turned out, consistently described a warmer person—rating them as happier, more generous, more sociable, good-natured, and more caring—than the iced coffee group. The effect seems to run the other way, too: In a paper published last year, Chen-Bo Zhong and Geoffrey J. Leonardelli of the University of Toronto found that people asked to recall a time when they were ostracized gave lower estimates of room temperature than those who recalled a social inclusion experience.”

- via boston.com

the experience becomes the story which becomes the point. like a...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:04:14 -0400

the experience becomes the story which becomes the point.

like a book about a reading a book which becomes the plot of the book.

"Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You’re tired, you’ve had a..."

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:59:07 -0400

“Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You’re tired, you’ve had a headache since you arrived, but you can’t leave because then you’d miss the party.”

- Simon Hoggart (via simko)

more canadian talent making it big because of TV commercials....

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:57:41 -0400

more canadian talent making it big because of TV commercials. This time it’s Walmart. [link].

gradea: hexplosion: loveeandmathematics: atoms: merricat:sata...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:58:12 -0400

gradea:

hexplosion:

loveeandmathematics:

atoms:

merricat:satanicpanic:wastelander:mothlarvae:janitoroflunacy:deadchique:mthrfknluis:

There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened. -Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

(via davidhorvitz)

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:59:13 -0400

(via davidhorvitz)

the dead weather - interview.

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:24:07 -0400

the dead weather - interview.

Made this for fun over the weekend using Processing and OpenGL....

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:51:17 -0400

Made 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

sneak peak of a music visualizer i’m working on. video to...

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:57:00 -0400

sneak peak of a music visualizer i’m working on. video to come soon.

built in processing with OpenGL

andi-b: aokie: gkojaxlabo: yasaiitame: nickmcglynn: Keyboard...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:34:35 -0400

andi-b:

aokie:

gkojaxlabo:

yasaiitame:

nickmcglynn:

Keyboard Waffle Iron

2008-11-13

an interview with Dr. George Vaillant, the director of the Grant...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:17:01 -0400

an 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."

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:45:46 -0400

“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”

- Michael Caine (via rulesformyunbornson)

Derek was born & raised in Bristol, & during the late...

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:32:21 -0400

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.

chaos in the mind, peace in the heart. i like coining...

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:00:00 -0400

chaos in the mind, peace in the heart.

i like coining phrases.

"This man, in a previous, Beirut-based life, had been a Marxist, so I couldn’t understand why the..."

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:29:06 -0400

“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.

sojamo: soundflow by Eva Schindling, 2009. A fluid dynamics...

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:42:24 -0400

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

Video

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:13:49 -0400

The winner of the Hybrid Art categors of Ars...

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:39:00 -0400

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.