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The Cloud Appreciation Society
Posted June 26th, 2009 at 2:31 pm. There are 0 comments.
Photo: © Scott Bogue
The Cloud Appreciation Society believes in the beauty of clouds and their importance to dreamers. They are the expressions of the atmospheres moods.
Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!
Check out the cloud gallery for many more clouds.
Francisco Infante-Arana
Posted June 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm. There are 0 comments.
Aluminium foil on trees by Francisco Infante-Arana
In a similar vein, Jan Imberi
field guide to NYC standpipes
Posted June 12th, 2009 at 2:48 pm. There are 0 comments.
Jeff Maki has posted a field guide to NYC standpipes. These systems act like a fire hydrant to an individual building and there color coding and associated signage tell us city dwellers a bit about the fire protection in the building and perhaps more.
via infrastructurist
Air France 447 crash infographics
Posted June 3rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm. There are 0 comments.
VisualJournalism has a good collection of info-graphics that attempt to explain the mystery that is the crash of AF447 in the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil. With so few details it is interesting to see the stylistic differences in these graphics that all tell, roughly, the same story – a plane flying from Rio de Janiero to Paris encounters a zone of bad weather and is never heard from again.
via @michaelsurtees
giant tangrams in the park
Posted June 1st, 2009 at 12:10 pm. There are 0 comments.
A Day in the Park is a big game that involves giant tangrams. From the game’s description:
The grind of New York City as gotten to you. You and your buddies have decided to play hooky in the park. Once you get there you realize nobody has brought any supplies. You need the essentials to enjoy the day. Remember this is New York so your team is not the only one looking for a fun day, of course you have to beat out teams for your items. Each team will have to complete missions in the park, and solve HUGE tangrams to create their ideal Day in the Park .
Part of the Come out and Play festival, city-size fun.
summer of fun manifesto
Posted May 27th, 2009 at 11:44 am. There are 0 comments.
A Summer of Fun, The Manifesto presents a set of suggestions to increase your fun levels between June 1st and September 1st. My two favorites:
SLEEP DIFFERENT – Staying up extremely late or waking up extremely early is an easy way to experience a totally new world. What’s outside your front door can feel like a completely foreign place when you’re the only one around to experience it.
EXPERIMENT – Here’s an idea: every Sunday evening, write down something that you’ve never done before. By the end of the week it should be checked off so you can be ready for the next thing. Don’t go easy on yourself.
The more challenging the task, the bigger the reward. Use fear as a motivation to try new things. Remember, failure can be just as interesting as success.
Go read the whole list
the future beneath us
Posted May 26th, 2009 at 3:56 pm. There are 0 comments.
The vast underground network of tunnels in New York City is the focus of an historic exhibition allowing visitors into a world unknown and featuring the much-discussed, but little understood mega-projects bringing the City’s transportation infrastructure into the 21st Century.
An exhibition at Grand Central Station and the New York Public Library highlighting the amazing mega projects that lay beneath the city streets. The website has a great selection of current and historical photos and drawings from the 8 Great Projects Under New York. This is looking like a must see for me.
space shuttle in transit of the sun
Posted May 17th, 2009 at 11:13 pm. There are 0 comments.
Amazing.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)
boffin from last.fm
Posted May 15th, 2009 at 8:42 am. There are 0 comments.
Boffin is last.fm radio for your local music. You aim it at your music collection and it crunches for a bit. While it eats up your music you get a wonderful view of it all, with filename scrolling at warp speed in the background and album covers moving right to left.
This is the nicest possible progress bar an app could have.
When it’s done you get a tag cloud and you can pick the different genres you want to listen to.
today is a
Posted May 12th, 2009 at 11:07 am. There are 0 comments.
todayisa.com checks the weather, news stocks and other mystey stuff to determine is the day is goo, or bad. Also available in json, LOL, boolean or on twitter @todayisa
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