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50 Years of Janus

November 30, 2006

I want this...

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How Cocaine is Made

A video documentation on the process of making cocaine. Extremely detailed and procedural. Fascinating.

Via Protein Feed.

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Bottled-Up Sunshine

This is poetic and purchasable...

Here's a short description:

Perfect for the darker month's of the year, the sun jar. Another great idea by Tobi Wong, one of our favorite designers, this jar stores the sun light. No kidding, it really does…

Have it sit in the sun during the day and see it radiate at night. All made possible by modern technology – some LED's, a solar panel and some ingenious thinking. The kind of thinking Tobi is famous for.

This is a wonderful effect and the sandblasted glass makes it seem as if it truly emits warm sun light. It is a great little idea for an outdoor summer dinner, where you have the jars scattered around the table, or an evening at the beach where they will provide just the right amount of light, or as garden illumination, just position them at strategic points in your garden or rooftop terrace or balcony – they work equally well in either location.

Size: 4" x 4" x 6" (10x10x16 cm)

Too bad it's sold out.

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Kuler by Adobe Lab

November 26, 2006

Stumbled upon this new development on the web the other day. Kuler, an online/executable application developed by Adobe, helps to design and distribute color schemes for Web and design packages.

This completely intuitive interface is great on an obvious level, but the cool thing about it is its structural analysis of color, on a scientific level. It works on the principle of the interrelationships between colors, so that it's not "what looks good," but "what makes sense."

Oh how I love it when things can be interpretted quantitatively.

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Two Projects to Share...

November 09, 2006

This is an excellent way to relating the pulse of a city to lives on a cosmic level, with a aesthetically beautiful style:

Adam Richards Architects have designed a wind breaker with a difference. Created for a priest to shelter him whilst writing sermons on his roof terrace in central London, this project is conceived as an electronic Annunciation. An undulating screen of woven stainless steel mesh veils a continuous wall of blue polycarbonate panels held in a steel frame which is cantilevered from the building’s roof structure. In the morning the stainless steel blazes with reflected sunlight, whilst in the afternoon natural light causes the polycarbonate to glow blue through the mesh.

At night the polycarbonate is illuminated by hundreds of light emitting diodes integrated into the frame. These are linked to a Geiger Counter, which has been tuned to detect cosmic radiation, the fluctuations of which are registered as pulsing waves of blue light moving across the wall like the aurora borealis.

Sensors detect the movement of people near the screen, translating it into an electronic shadow in the LEDs. In this way the human and cosmic realms are brought to visibility within the same frame, which in turn embraces the space of the terrace whilst revealing the distant skyline of the city.

And then, of course, there's this:

Enjoy.

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Architecture Imaginary

October 26, 2006

Bldgblog had an excellent list of creative architectural interpretations and designs recently

And this.

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2D to 3D

October 19, 2006

Researchers of Carnegie Mellon University has managed to teach a computer to recognize and transform 2D images into 3D.

via YouTube, duh.

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Frederic Chaubin: Soviet-Era Architecture

Found this via Building Blog

Last month, PingMag ran a short interview with photographer Frederic Chaubin. Chaubin has spent the last several years documenting Soviet-era architecture in post-Soviet nations, with a focus on the odd, the unique, and the eccentric. "If you see the photographs all together in a small space like here, you might feel like there are quite a lot of these buildings around, but actually there are very few of them. You have to imagine that if you go to each Russian town you will only find one or two very special buildings there. But most of them are very boring and look very similar, and those here are the exceptions." I just like the above building, really].

You can see more of these incredible architecture at Ping Mag.

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Changing Views of Spacetime

October 15, 2006

In this animation, the vertical direction indicates time and the horizontal direction indicates distance, the dashed line is the spacetime trajectory ("world line") of the observer. The lower quarter of the diagram shows the events that are visible to the user, and the upper quarter shows the light cone- those that will be able to see the observer. The small dots are arbitrary events in spacetime.

The slope of the world line (deviation from being vertical) gives the relative velocity to the observer. Note how the view of spacetime changes when the observer accelerates.

From wikipedia.

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Yang Fugong - No Snow on the Broken Bridge

October 09, 2006

Over this past weekend, I trekked down to New York City (again) to see some friends. I also visited the Marian Goodman gallery to check out a recent multi-channel film installation by Chinese artist Yang Fudong.

Here is what ArtForum had to say about the installation:

Those who have seen this Chinese artist’s earlier films will find familiar imagery scattered throughout No Snow on the Broken Bridge, 2006: a freeze-frame tableau in which seven young men and women, dressed in a haberdasher’s finest, look outward from a rocky outcrop; boats slowly drifting across placid waters; lush, unpopulated landscapes dominated by mountains. This eleven-minute black-and-white work, which premiered last spring at Parasol Unit in London, is Fudong’s inaugural foray into multichannel presentation. A viewer’s slightly antic attempt to take in images from eight screens, here hung in a seamless semicircle, marginally diminishes the arrested-moment quality that characterizes all his films—it’s plain he trained as a painter—but Fudong aids the viewer by occasionally letting objects slide from one screen to the next or by nestling similar images side by side (ants threading through rivulets of bark; men hiking a narrow path up a hill). Like all of Fudong’s work, the narrative is loosely structured, favoring centripetal forces over linear paths. Here, glamorous young men and women are slowly pulled together as, alone or in pairs and quartets, they wend their way toward the eponymous bridge to catch a last glimpse of winter snow; the rabbits, parrots, and stubborn goats on leashes that accompany them hint at the dandyish excess of a bygone era. Some women make their way, in heels, along flat boulders set in a babbling brook; others wear suits and painted mustaches. A man in a trilby puffs contemplatively on a pipe while being conveyed across open water. Not much of significance transpires, but in a film this beautiful, this suffused with atmosphere, not much needs to.

After visiting the space, I had mixed feelings about the effectiveness of the piece. More later...

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