Thursday, March 31, 2011

It is what it is . .

"birds" (pleix) from pleix on Vimeo.


If you have never seen this video before, your day has been made, your mind has been blown, etc., etc., etc. into infinity.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Crop Tops: Strange Agricultural Landscapes Seen From Space






Agriculture is one of the oldest and most pervasive human impacts on the planet. Estimates of the land surface affected worldwide range up to 50 percent. But while driving through the seemingly endless monotony of wheat fields in Kansas may give you some insight into the magnitude of the change to the landscape, it doesn't compare to the view from above.

When seen from space, those same featureless wheat fields are transformed into a strange and beautiful pattern.

By Betsy Mason March 17, 2011 | 7:00 am | Categories: Earth Science WIRED

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Grizzly Bear - Knife

Knife from Encyclopedia Pictura on Vimeo.

Gabriel Dawe






Gabriel Dawe was born in Mexico City where he grew up surrounded by the intensity and color of Mexican culture. After working as a graphic designer, he moved to Montreal, Canada in 2000 following a desire to explore foreign land. In search for creative freedom he started experimenting and creating artwork, which eventually led him to explore textiles and embroidery—activities traditionally associated with women and which were forbidden for a boy growing up in Mexico. Because of this, his work is subversive of notions of masculinity and machismo that are so ingrained in his culture. By working with thread and textiles, Dawe’s work has evolved into creating large-scale installations with thread, creating environments that deal with notions of social constructions and their relation to evolutionary theory and the self-organizing force of nature.

Carl Platon, Nov 23 2010.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

House and Universe


Images: Miriam Aust

Product design, furniture and exhibition architecture.
Wilhelmshöher - Allee 121
34121 Kassel
Germany

From House and Universe

A Brief History of Title Design

A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.


A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

Nuclear reactor wall charts


Image: Wylfa Magnox, Wylfa, Anglesey, UK. Wall chart insert, Nuclear Engineering, 1965

Now seems like a good week to revisit this set of 105 reactor wall charts, uploaded by the University of New Mexico. The dates next to each chart relate to the issue of Nuclear Engineering International magazine in which they first appeared. Ronald Knief, a nuclear engineer from Sandia National Laboratories, assembled the image collection.

More about the images, and links to the complete set, here at Bibliodyssey. Here's the direct Flickr set link.

(via BB Submitterator, thanks cinemajay)

Daphne Oram's audiovisual music synthesizer, 1957

Oramics from Nick Street on Vimeo.


Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a sound effects and music studio established in the 1950s that had a vast influence on electronic music and synthesizer technology. At the BBC and after, Oram developed an incredible new kind of sound synthesis technology, called Oramics. The video above offers a glimpse of her Oramics synthesizer, purchased from a collector in 2009 and now under restoration at the Science Museum in London. From DaphneOram.org:

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Jim O'Raw


Jim O’Raw’s silkscreened prints are a result of his fascination of cmyk printing techniques and the endless color manipulation and the experimental accidents and imperfections that bring the work to life.

The Jelly Wobbler



The Jelly Wobbler by Nik Ramage is a machine for … wobbling jelly.

Fragments of RGB

fragments of RGB - 02 from onformative on Vimeo.


Fragments of RGB is an interactive installation by onformative. The classic LED screen as a medium was simulated and disintegrated by the creation of a pixel-like LED optic with the ability to change and transform with the viewer’s movement and, hence, his perspective and point of view.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

»X2MX«



»X2MX«, 2009 by Matteo Giordano.