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Flickr friends!
Posted January 30th, 2009 at 12:50 pm. There are 0 comments.
i love you more than blank
Posted January 26th, 2009 at 3:13 pm. There are 0 comments.
Paperwhite Studio wants you to fill in the blank with what you really love.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 17/358
Posted January 22nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm. There are 0 comments.
If we still used 3.5″ floppies for software distribution it would take 378 3.5″ 1.44MB Floppy Diskettes for Abobe Photoshop CS4. Great.
Born at 30,000 feet
Posted January 20th, 2009 at 7:08 pm. There are 0 comments.BLDGBLOG points to the interesting status bestowed upon a newly born baby girl. While flying from Amsterdam to Boston, a Ugandan women went into labor and gave birth to a child, which was subsequently deemed to be Canadian by US Customs officials. It was determined that the birth occurred over eastern Canada.
Extrapolating from this situation, BLDGBLOG speculates further:
Of course, one wonders what citizenship this baby would have been given if they had been flying over the middle of the ocean, for instance, or across the tangled borders of an enclave or exclave. A complicated mathematics of trajectory, speed, and height is unleashed by terrestrial scholars below in order to find the exact location of the plane at the moment of childbirth.
Like something out of Borges, imperial trigonometricians are called in for consultation. Their calculations take days and arguments break out.
Perhaps the child goes on to be famous – a political leader, a poet, a revolutionary, the next pope – and his or her exact aerial origin becomes increasingly important to find out. Weather data and wind speed, the weight of fellow passengers, tiny aerodynamic imperfections in the wings, and even gravitational anomalies in the earth’s crust are brought to bear: how fast was the airplane traveling?
Prismacolor Pen Print
Posted January 20th, 2009 at 9:59 am. There are 0 comments.
Absolutely amazing set of unique prints by Daniel Eatock. It a nearly perfect marriage of a strict system, materiality (of the paper stock and the markers) and time. With the added bonus of a beautiful end result.
A complete set of 156 Prismacolor Markers (arranged following manufacturer’s numbered color chart) held within inverted glasses, one ream of 25” x 38” uncoated, 40 lb. paper, divided into two stacks.
The ink reached the 31st sheet in the stack of paper that comprises the top half of the diptych and the 29th sheet of the stack that comprises the bottom half of the diptych.Prior to discovering the extent of the edition, it was determined that the price of each diptych would equal the highest number of sheets stained by the ink.
Prismacolor Pen Print (diptych) by Daniel Eatock
Shifting Boundries
Posted January 19th, 2009 at 3:54 pm. There are 0 comments.
Since seeing this first post on the Shape of Alpha on the code.flickr blog many many weeks ago I have thought about what it means nearly everyday. Future geographical boundries are becoming more flexible as we define them with our metadata. We are where we think we are, even if that particular there isn’t exactly right. These zones are the questionable locales located between conventional boundries as defined by geographical coordinates recorded in maps and property deeds and the line we have drawn for ourselves, collectively, where once place ends and another begins.
Beware the algorithms
Posted January 14th, 2009 at 10:34 am. There are 0 comments.Most things don’t have to be perfect. In particular, things involving human interactions don’t have to be perfect, because groups of humans have all these self-regulations built in. If you and I have an agreement and you screwed me over badly, you’ve always got in the back of your mind the nagging worry that I’m going to show up on your doorstep with a club and kill you. Because of that, people don’t tend to screw each other too much, right? At least, they try not to. One danger, perhaps, of moving towards an algorithmically driven society is that the algorithms aren’t scared of us showing up and beating them up. The algorithms will do whatever it is that they are designed to do. But mostly I’m not too worried about that.
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Frozen Food in a Wall of Ice
Posted January 12th, 2009 at 6:24 pm. There are 0 comments.
Frozen Food in a Wall of Ice [food art] – Eat me daily
3-2-1 Contact
Posted January 7th, 2009 at 11:40 am. There are 0 comments.There are lots more in the related videos too.
Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility – European Commission
Posted January 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pm. There are 0 comments.
It is amazing that we can get to nearly anywhere on earth in a matter of hours or a few days. Remoteness is is slipping away.
via: Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility
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