Space Chair Project
This is a really good commercial.
John Maeda get’s excited about art! I actually love how he responds with such sincere wonder to this stuff. He could be jaded, but he’s not:
The above object from the recent Design Science symposium held here at RISD gives you a sense of the wonderment we all observed together.
The Books play “Smells Like Content” Live in London on December 11, 2006.
A video shot from the very top of the Dubai Burj tower’s spire…
The sound cuts out after a moment or so, but it’s worth watching even after that. Just watching it gives me the uncomfortable feeling of being very high up, though this would be obviously beyond anything I’ve experienced before.
What a cool device! Musician Omer Yosha has created something he calls AirPiano:
a thin black piece of flat Plexiglas and wood that Yosha plays with a wave of his hand, his sounds and rhythms echoing those of the Schöneberg neighborhood in which he lives. (To sample them, watch this video.)
I wasn’t able to embed the video, but you need to watch it.
(via GOOD)
I’m not a huge graffiti fan, but this project moved me:
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
Hot Air - an inflatable monument
Created by Anca Trandafirescu, with the assistance of Le Nguyen, Hot Air is an inflatable, inhabitable monument commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in Romania. The monument takes the shape of the fallen head of a giant statue, lit from within. We’ve seen a few iterations of this floating around the internet before, but we’re happy to announce the inflatable has reached its intended site of Timisoara, Romania. Upon return, it will be shown again at the University of Michigan, where Trandafirescu teaches.
(via Core77)
“Trillions”
trillions of networked computers representing all scales of information and objects will make up the edgeless ecology of information that we’ll be floating in.
Books and Libraries in the Digital Age: Robert Darnton discusses the ocean of digital information. From MIT’s Distributed Intelligence.
The question is- Is the person following the information, or is the information following the person?
Over the next two months, PSFK will be hosting Redscout’s SPUR video series. It will explore the intersection of brands, strategy, innovation and the world of account planning. We hope to spark a lively discussion, and inspire those working in the field.
Frank Lloyd Wright shows Wright did the actual drawings for the famous Falling Water house in less than three hours!
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Experiencing this makes me a bit uneasy. To be so clearly aware of the error of perception is sobering and makes me wonder what else I perceive incorrectly… or not at all.
This video came to me via the Neurophilosophy blog, who wonders about perceiving effects before their cause.
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