Yearly Archives: 2010
Martin Gardner on The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things / Martin Gardner from Wagner Brenner on Vimeo.
Watched this last night. Like many, I first discovered Martin Gardner while attempting to read Scientific American as a kid. This video reminds me why he was so interesting: math, juggling, puzzles, magic tricks and even computers. Check out the segments with John Conway [...]
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Cooktop or iPad?
So I was checking out some new kitchen gear the other day and noticed how similar the fancy new induction (glass, ceramic, all touch, etc. etc.) cooktops are to the handheld touch devices like the iPad.
In particular, the touch devices running audio/dj sorta apps. This is a sample of the Lemur from Jazz Mutant. Not [...]
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Graph mining and music
“Earworm (thanks to Jonathan Feinberg for the name) makes it possible to extend or shrink a song to any length you might desire, without changing the tempo. It does this by constructing a network graph of the piece, using The Echo Nest’s analysis data. Each node in the graph is a beat in the song, and an edge [...]
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Octane Render Samples & Video
CDM brings us up to speed on Octane Render, a GPU renderer from Refractive Software.
This isn’t a demo of some futuristic research tech at SIGGRAPH, though: it’s a product in beta right now you can use, today. (A beta license, amazingly, costs just EUR99 during the beta.) Friend of the site Marc has kept us [...]
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Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition
Special introductory price: $19.99USD.
The application offers, at the touch of a finger, access to an encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless design classics by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Jasper Morrison, Dieter Rams, Eero Saarinen, and Philippe Starck but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the clothes peg, [...]
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Logorama
“What better way to kick off our brand new film feature, than with Logorama, the winner of this year’s Oscar for animated short. Created by French animation studio H5, Logorama sees a universe and its inhabitants created entirely from globally recognised brand names and symbols. The film opens to Dean Martin’s ‘Good Morning Life, revealing [...]
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Spring cleaning with a CDN
So after tweeting I was giving up on Wordpress, I’m still using Wordpress! I spent a few weeks looking at alternatives and playing around with some custom stuff (written in Clojure of course). I found plenty to like with Squarespace, Typepad & Posterous and was ready to slap down the credit card. But! For instance, [...]
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Sync/Lost
Sync/Lost from 3bits on Vimeo.
SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.
The project’s objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. [...]
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The Oscars of Type by Ellen Lupton
Best Serif: Calluna, by Jos Buivenga
Ooh I like it a lot. Looks quite nice set in a book as well.
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A turn of the century workspace