Annie Collinge

I've been shamelessly reposting things from The Fox is Black but you could skip my filtering and spend sometime enjoying their artful curating.

Jillian Tamakis

Kevin Cyr

Bernard Voita

It's hard to find much on this artist online, image wise but this and a few other photos are very nice. Go HERE for a flickr set with a few images

more energy, less dimensions?

New Theory suggests that the universe at higher energy/temperatures has less dimensions

Hip-Hop Word Count

Hilary Pecis

Gregg Fleishman

Cheap jammer screws GPS

Which is cool, but now I want a program that will randomize my word use and punctuation/capitalization to avoid this type of crap. Which I'm pretty sure all started with some nerd who wanted to know which roles Shakespeare performed in his plays. The idea being that the density of word use in the plays he was writing (which we had the dates for) could be cross correlated with the individual characters in the plays being performed (which we had the dates for). Or more precisely, if Juliet really liked the word wherefor, then that word frequency was likely to increase in the play Shakespeare was writing if he was playing that character.
Somehow this had something to do with unmasking the anonymous author of Primary Colors but I can't find anything on the web about this. So maybe I or someone else dreamed it up, if you remember details let me know.

language acquisition, son

After having recently attended a DARPA conference (STORyNET-download pdf describing STORyNET's goals) where the project manager said he would like "individual level narrative stimulus forecasting", or in other words, he would like to know what an individual will do when they hear a story, how narratives will play out in the global theater, the technology above is a little disturbing.

At the end of the Fast Company article Deb Roy mentions his new goals and the company he has started to pursue them: Bluefin Labs

These two images from thefoxisblack

The above terrarium by Matteo Cibic


The above photo by Natsumi Hayashi

Luke Painter

Make Sure to check out the animations

Alex Kisilevich

Liam Crockard

Mark Stebbins

social rollercoaster

so before some teenager in Russia invented chatroulette, i came up with this less aptly named game description, but imagined it wouldn't work until it could function on smart phones, i still think the timed parameters would make the whole thing better, the idea initially emerged when trying to imagine a way to have online parties with friends in distant locations, the randomness imitating the way people bump into each other in the process of getting another beer, peeing, etc. the below was some kind of futuristic dictionary entry i probably write while high

social rollercoaster

a. a games show featured on the now defunct NBC that involved an incredibly sophisticated machine for moving people about violently and then putting them in front of other violently moved people, where they would then discuss something or other for 1, 5, or 10 minutes. The rules changed as the show progressed. It still is common to refer to show events and meeting of new people as 'the roll' .

b. as part of the media bath introduced with Social Rollercoaster, NBC introduced an online app that allowed people at home to enjoy the game. With rudimentary translation apps and crude graphics between rolls that suggested vertigo, rollers would choose 1, 5, or 10 minute coasts ending abruptly at the assigned time, two rollers would have only a few minutes to decide what to talk about and do it. This spawned over time the birth of the various coasts, tossed up at the edge of clouds, overlapping in an electrical thunderstorm. When Google introduced translatez the app improved quickly as Google assembled massive collections of sounds, sighed, barked, brittly formed, representing the elements of every sound of every language programs evolved, poets and musicians began to hammer together voices, overlapping phenomes, mashing 6 accents into a single sentence, users browsed a plethora of possible translatez. it is impossible to imagine anything before Coasts that compares in the overwhelming influence it has achieved in the behavior of the human.