I was reading the other day about a product from Fusion Garage called the JooJoo. Yep, a product. Nope, you get no more information than that. Why? Because the name irritates the hell out of me. The mere name sent me on a Twitter and IRC rant for a good fifteen minutes. JooJoo. I...
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The Kills – Sour Cherry Just started listening to The Kills. Incredibly sexy, fun, contagious music that absolutely begs to be played at the loudest possible volume.
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Catching up on my TEDtalks. If you’re not familiar with ‘em: TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. Shitload of talks at www.ted.com on pretty much any subject you could ever wish for. Each talk sends me in a new direction, so I stay subscribed to the video podcast via iTunes. Highly recommended. Oh, and did...
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Warren Ellis linked a twenty five minute keynote address by Bruce Sterling on atemporality specifically geared for creative artists. It’s a fantastic talk, well worth the short time it takes to watch. I have to admit I’m kind of new to the Sterling-train and haven’t read much by him. I just added him to...
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Source, via TYWKIWDBI.
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In the Whitechapel IRC channel, Will Ellwood recently shared a page with me showing this fantastic plague-era “pathogenic garment” that, presumably, a physician would wear while treating patients. It’s fantastic for a couple reasons, but the qualities that really stuck out to me where the cult-like ones. The robe, a fantastic an exaggerated mask,...
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My friend Rachel Astruc pointed me to a Business Week article on how to spark innovation and creativity that’s worth a read. BPS Research Digest profiles a study about how performing horizontal eye movement exercises may boost your creativity. The journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts has a study (and in typical APA...
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BLDGBLOG has a fun write-up (by way of New Scientist) on a computer model put out by Niloy Mitra and Mark Pauly that facilitates designing three-dimensional objects based on what shadows you want to cast depending on what angle the object is lit from. There’s a five minute video at the link that is...
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I’ve been struck over the last few days by an idea about Maker or DIY Culture in the US, and its slow but steady rise in importance. I think it’s safe to say the nuclear American Dream is dead. With divorce rates estimated to be at least 50% by the Census Bureau, the nuclear...
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