Archive for December, 2009
What You Need is a Lover
Penelope Umbrico: Leonards for Leonard & 5,537,594 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 5/30/09 – for BAM
Known for her innovative use of current technology, like search engines and picture sharing services, the work of Brooklyn-based Penelope Umbrico reveals truths within the seemingly ordinary in two new interventions. In Leonards for Leonard, Umbrico investigates the history of the [...]Another Image Upload Test
Another test. This time I’m uploading a vertical image to see how it is resized.
I love that I’ve got dueling Verizon trucks out front, and I love that I was able to catch the person running through the frame.
It seems the WordPress iPhone app resizes both portrait and landscape images to 300px on their longest [...]WordPress iPhone App Test
I’ve been fairly quiet lately as I just moved into a new place this last Saturday. It’s amazing. Many thanks to Bear, Frej, Jacob and Larry for their help.
So post move, except for my mobile, I’ve been largely offline.
The remedy is on its way: Verizon should be here in the next hour hooking up [...]Mandelbulbs
The quest by a group of math geeks to create a three-dimensional analogue for the mesmerizing Mandelbrot fractal has ended in success.
They call it the Mandelbulb. The 3-D renderings were generated by applying an iterative algorithm to a sphere. The same calculation is applied over and over to the sphere’s points in three dimensions. In [...]Credit Synthesis
A sculpture which interprets magnetically stored data and translates it into a brief melody.
Detail images at JonathanVingiano.com.
via @vagueterrainBambi
Unconventional, but refreshing, taxidermy from Melissa Dixson. Her work is so far removed from what Anna and I saw at Foster’s Big Horn.
via James A. Reeves on FBBryce, Asha
After having recently watched “Once Upon a Time in the West” and “Tombstone” I’ve been on a desert kick. Since Paula is from Phoenix the topic came up today when talking about heading West for the Holidays.
I was talking about the color tones of the deserts in the two films, and Paula responded by making [...]Where Books Come to Life
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sans titre (I believe I can fly) (2006) – Camille Laurelli
Fake, but cute.
via RhizomeiLingual
A cool iPhone app, but not exactly what you’d hope for. You actually choose a phrase to convey then play it with the animated image of your mouth. There are German, French and Arabic versions, and the app is free on iTunes.
