Christopher Butler

is a 29-year-old human being, lives in Chapel Hill, NC, works as Vice President of newfangled.com, reads, writes, draws, and thinks about the future.

Neat! Explanation of the Ames’ Room illusion here >

Standard Time: A Clock Rebuilt Every Minute

Glitch Studies Manifesto

Very cool use of holographic projection for music performance. (via BERG)

bmdesign:

Generative Gestaltung (Generative Design) book.
(via Vimeo)

via GOOD:

When a blackout hit parts of the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in early February, a 2HeadedHorse filmmaker took to the roof of his building and started playing with his camera, focusing on the lights of helicopters and cars against a dark city. The results are this little video for “The Long Night,” a song by Patrick Park.

Read more: http://www.good.is/post/intermission-the-long-night#ixzz0gMY3sp3I
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution

More on this project at BLDGBLOG:

A mind-bogglingly awesome new project from MIT called Flyfire hopes to use large, precision-controlled clouds of micro-helicopters, each carrying a color-coordinated LED light, to create massive, three-dimensional information displays in space.

Wonderful video, The Seed, by Johnny Kelly

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Nicholas Roope on advertising vs. things.

Spooky

This is a wonderful PBS documentary on the digital life. It’s given me a lot to think about.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on how technology enables a kind of time travel.

Arthur Harsuvanakit designed this alarmless alarm clock that mimics sunlight as a means of “naturally” waking you up…