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basketball shorts

Posted March 19th, 2009 at 2:59 pm. There are 0 comments.

via The Moment. The original drawing comes by way of Craig Robinson who has an over abundance of wonderful things, some sports related, at flip flop flyin’.
Apologies to Craig for initially missing the attribution

in LOVE with objects

Posted March 13th, 2009 at 9:17 am. There are 0 comments.

Watch Married To The Eiffel Tower [Part 1] | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Erika La Tour Eiffel, like Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer – the woman who married the Berlin Wall, is an “objectum sexual”, people who fall literally in love with buildings and objects. They have sex and relationships with them; their passion as ardent as any human relationship.

JAWS

Posted March 12th, 2009 at 11:40 am. There are 0 comments.

jaws

Original paperback, original movie poster and anniversary dvd cover

obama.twistori.com

Posted January 20th, 2009 at 11:16 am. There are 0 comments.

twistori_-inauguration

Twistori has a very nice Obama inauguration twitter zeitgeist.

via michaelsurtees

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.

British Design Classics

Posted November 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm. There are 0 comments.

Great Stamps from the Royal Mail. The British Design Classics collection come out in early 2009.

via British Design Classics « Thinking for a Living™

M45 – The Pleiades

Posted November 10th, 2008 at 11:01 am. There are 0 comments.

Above a picture of the sky and stars submitted to the astronomy.net group on flickr. Astrometry.net will analyze the photo and return the below interesting information about the sky you have photographed. Seriously amazing pattern matching.

astrometry.net says:

Hello, this is the blind astrometry solver. Your results are:
(RA, Dec) center:(56.7751, 24.1559) degrees

(RA, Dec) center (H:M:S, D:M:S):(03:47:6.024, +24:09:21.240)
Orientation:95.02 deg E of N

Pixel scale:1.96 arcsec/pixel

Parity:Reverse (“Left-handed”)
Field size :2.12 x 1.41 degrees

Your field contains:
The star Celaeno (16Tau)
The star Electra (17Tau)
The star 18Tau
The star Taygeta (19Tau)
The star Sterope I (21Tau)
The star Merope (23Tau)
The star ηTau
The star Atlas (27Tau)
The star Pleione (28Tau)
NGC 1432 / Maia nebula
NGC 1435 / Merope nebula

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If you would like to have other images solved, please submit them to the astrometry group.

Astrometry.net describes their project like this:

If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and we’ll give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view.

The intersection of photography, data and crowdsourcing, with either the photography or the data or both will be an interesting space to watch.

Quote by 1:1 | design mind

Posted November 8th, 2008 at 1:07 pm. There are 0 comments.

The mechanics of digital gaming – from overarching narrative to technical execution – are about managing player point-of-view within the environment of the game. But as video games map ever more closely to the built world, this point-of-view needs to be managed externally, as well. We must examine how gaming can be used to impact the world beyond the screen, both economically and intellectually.

1:1 | design mind