swiss bricks and giant steps
June 24th, 2006a comment on architecture in different contexts: two videos by Michal Levy and Pierre-Abraham Rochat
image from “Giant Steps” by Michal Levy
Project Reality turns 10 today
June 23rd, 2006
“Project Reality” was the first preliminary name of a game console that hit the Japan and US market under the name “Nintendo64” on June 23 1996 (which of the names sound more visionary to you?). The working title probably expressed the idea of creating a true graphics working horse (the hardware was developed together with sgi a leading graphics workstation company at that time — who remembers the O2 workstations that were released in the same year?)
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some impossible things can be done
June 22nd, 2006
just a charming photo series on flickr — follow the “impossible is nothing (Set)” links to the right at cynx’ flickr-Archiv.. (found at spreeblick)
Reykjavík graffiti
June 21st, 2006
Strokkur
June 20th, 2006
How does a geyser work? Read the rest of this entry »
romantic holodust
June 19th, 2006
This is a follow-up to our holodust post.
“iRomance-Die Romantik der Zukunft” (Romance of the future)– is a 6 min. funny comedy by Jan-M. Studt mixing the aesthetics of 2001 and star wars with the typical aesthetics of commercials. Unfortunately only in german, but may be the mimics and gestures are enough to understand the film…
Via the blog of Tim Bruysten, also featured on hackermovies.com (both links in german)
one month of elephant’s dream
June 18th, 2006
to the day one month ago the world’s first truly open source short movie made its online appearance. Since then a vivid discussion about “what is it all about” emerged (see e.g. here (german)). As for end of May they counted half a million downloads. The project was realized almost etirely by using open source software (most prominently blender for modeling) and sponsored and hosted by the Netherlands Media Art Institute. (complete credits here)
no popping eye balls
June 17th, 2006
but popping ball lightning (or at least ball lightning like plasma clouds). These are generated by an underwater discharge of a lousy 60 Ampere (so not for pocket use). Experiment (and image) are from Max-Plack-Institute für Plasmaphysik (german). An englisch translation is available at physorg.com.
tracking the dust
June 17th, 2006
It is sometimes interesting to observe how ideas breed. Since some years there has been Ken Perlins vision of a Laser-Leia – or err – a teddybear? – on his marvelous and famous homepage (-> which had been included in the Whitney artport!). Seems last year Read the rest of this entry »
expensive toys 1
June 16th, 2006
the world’s most expensive toy car track is probably the a scientific experiment for magnetically leviated transport systems.
As you can read here the cars are actually hoovering by means of high temperature superconductors (like the little piece shown on the left (image from here)).
As you can read here the cars are actually hoovering by means of high temperature superconductors (like the little piece shown on the left (image from here)).
Just the sentence “The model can be used [for] a fast transportation system to students and adults.” seems mysterious to me – what about chimney sweeps, locomotive drivers, and other minorities?