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Just launched the new DIY Nerdy Cross Stitch series in my Etsy Shop. Really excited about the photos, too!
Here's a shot of the whole finished project. :D People have been lovin' this kit at craft shows. :)
It's a yearly tradition for me to go and do my best to resist buying too many 50 cent books I don't have time to read.
How could you not love a girl that sends you love notes by computer punch cards? (Remember, this was 1977/78.) The cards say:
Tonight, Tonight, I see my love tonight and for us stars will stop
Where they are. Today the minutes seemed like hours. The hours go so
Slowly and the sky is light. Oh moon burn bright and make this
(West Side Story, of course)
Aaron Koblin
Custom software writing in Processing [Java], aggregate flight data including ASDI feed from the FAA.
In "Flight Patterns," Koblin depicts one day's worth of airplane flights across the US. Using custom software and data from the US Federal Aviation Administration, Koblin's motion graphic allows patterns to emerge from the paths of each airplane, visualized uniquely by each aircraft type.
This is Jaci.
Her stream:
Pictures she's done of me:
Sorry Jaci... I hate to say you asked for it, but that photo was too good to pass up. :).
"These artistic interpretations of scientific data will empower the average person to see the invisible, hear the inaudible and understand the impossibly complex."
Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima
Custom software writing in Flash and Processing [Java], Amazon Mechanical Turk, thousands of workers from around the world.
Compiles ten thousand individual drawings from anonymous participants into a picture of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.
The entire cost of the piece, labor + materials, was exactly $100.
David Bowen
Plastic, electronics, charcoal and paper
Or, as I called it, "The little guys."
Solar-powered robots follow lights which are connected to timers to light up in various patterns, tracking their journey with faint charcoal strokes.
(heh, iTunes started playing The Strokes as I typed this.)
Just launched the new DIY Nerdy Cross Stitch series in my Etsy Shop. Really excited about the photos, too!
Here's my fave pic of the materials.
Jonathan Berger
Electronic and computer equipment
Berger creates musical compositions by ascribing specific sounds to various data. The changing contours of an oil spill in Jiyeh, Lebanon, can be understood in a new way through his sonifications.
[You stand underneath this speaker. An orchestra plays the musical interpretation of the data from an oil spill in Lebanon. It is surprisingly -- and hauntingly -- beautiful.]
Aaron Koblin
Interactive Installation
Courtesy of the artist, Gaurav Sukhatme, Maxim Batalin, and the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
You're looking at me taking a picture of me.
Even more meta than that, just as I entered the gallery, I pulled two things from my purse: my camera and my iPod. I cued up Radiohead's "In Rainbows," jammed my lens cap in my front pocket, and started wandering.
Within a minute I was standing in front of Laser Traces, the inspiration for Radiohead's "House of Cards" video, from the "In Rainbows" album. This means I'm watching me taking a picture of me next to a screen showing Thom Yorke making a video for the song I'm listening to in my headphones, because that's how things seem to go for me.
Also: I'm in geek heaven.
"Humans will very likely generate more information this year than in the cumulative history of our species." --- SEED MAGAZINE, 2008.
Han & Leia
Decided to start using my LEGO figures to pose for some photos. Here's one of the first experiments. :)
More geekness over at my blog
We went out to dinner at a local diner that is renowned for the mass quantities of oldies that frequent it. J & Thor asked us to "goth out" as much as possible in an attempt to cause coronary arrest.
David Bowen
Leaves, steel and charcoal on paper
Leaves connected to charcoal create a record of wind intensity.
Loved her writing in Willamette Week (The Slice) and her novels "Truck", "Attic" and "Geek Love".
I am pretty much a library person, but I actually bought Geek Love all those many years ago.
Geek Love has never been out of print.
Oregonian Link: Katherine Dunn, dies at 70
Willamette Week Link: The twisted and beautiful life of Katherine Dunn - Portland's beloved geek
From Eye in the Sky, an exhibition about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter(MRO).
The MRO offers a rare glimpse at the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars through various instruments; the resulting images are as much art as science.
Ned Kahn
Steel, acrylic and water
An interactive sculpture that senses very small amounts of movement resulting in light refraction through water. Through the interplay of water, light and shadow, seismic vibrations of the earth become visible.
This just happened at the League of Legends shoot! #dragoncon #geeklove
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batspajamas: Weird! I can hear that happening now from my room