I forgot about these cool time lapse vids that Able made a few years ago! We’ve had many office configurations since…
via Frank Chimero who writes:
If you’ve a bit of time this afternoon or tonight, I think there are many worse things to do than to consider the words and ideas of Mr. Fry for half an hour. He was asked what he wished he knew when he was 18. I think most of the time is spent talking about things corollary to the question, including the relationship of technology and tools to the creative person, social networks, goals, and more.
Jürgen Reble’s Materia Obscura and Instabile Materie films utilized the process of chemical degradation of celluloid to create rich textural morphologies that act as visual insights into the films own materiality. Instabile Materie was created by exposing 16 mm film strips to crystallizing salts and other corrosive materials, the resulting lattices and patchwork aggregations appear to record, as if using a scanning electron microscope, the chemical and molecular structure of the salts themselves. The ‘chemograms’ stills created from Instabile Materie were later digitized and used to create the more recent high definition Materia Obscura. The speed of the frame sequences were further slowed down enabling the analysis of new kinds of transitions and transformations, pertaining to the geological as well as the alchemical. Materia Obscura was shown accompanied by a multi-channel soundtrack by Thomas Köner at this years Sonic Acts Festival.
Cool.
Minority Report!
Wow, this is amazing.
via Core77:
It’s been said that technology eats its young, and it’s never been truer than in this iPad holder built out of a Mac Classic
Wonderful. Via The Long Now Foundation:
It’s a reverse time lapse put together by Greg Mercer and Emily Ward (editing), and David Quednau (animation). Unwinding 20,000 years of a modern American city and frontier outposts, Native American settlements and the last ice age, we arrive in their world and resurrect them in film.
Wow. Nimoy with a mustache! But this is fun…
MOSCOW — An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars intended to help real space crews of the future cope with confinement, stress and fatigue of interplanetary travel.
Russia: Mission Mars 500
Interesting development in the digital-literacy world:
Ubimark enhances physical reality (books, places, objects) with stories, travel experiences, ratings or information.
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