A collection of fantastic experiments exploring the medium of code and design by Erik Natzke.
Archive for the 'Tech' Category
A brilliant sculpted book project by Kyle Bean entitled ‘the future of books’…how true!
[via It's Nice That]
The Ultimate Machine by Claude Shannon and Marvin Minsky.
About 7 years ago I was reading an article on Claude Shannon and came across one of the funniest ideas I had ever heard. Claude, you see, was one of these incredibly brilliant engineers with an obviously great sense of humor. As I understand it, he, along with Marvin Minsky came up with an idea they called the “Ultimate Machine”. Basically a plain box with a switch on the top. When you flip the switch, a hand comes out of the box and flips the switch off. Thats it.
[via BoingBoing]
‘I Want You to Want Me‘ is an interactive installation which aggregates text from various dating sites then compiles and groups the data into various forms with people represented as floating balloons.
[via bbGadgets]
Looking for more ways to sit with a laptop? check out the Laptop Karmasutra for some inspiration.
[via FunForever]
A great collection of images of technology from the days of yore, rolled into the photo book - Core Memory - A Visual Survey Of Vintage Computers.
Part sculpture, part proof-of-concept; Bert Simons creates ‘clones’ of people from real photographs mapped onto a 3d head, then flattened, printed and glued back together.
You can even print your own and make another clone of Bert Simons head.
[via BoingBoing]
Impressive abstract renderings by Andreas Pihlström.
deployed into space in 1984. It orbited the Earth for five and a half years with nothing expected of it other than to float there, getting battered about by whatever the great black yonder saw fit to throw at it. You see, every inch of its outside surface was covered with Science. 57 separate experiments, mounted in 86 trays, involving the participation of “more than 200 principal investigators from 33 private companies, 21 universities, seven NASA centers, nine Department of Defense laboratories and eight foreign countries.” Its purpose was to study the effects of space on a multitude of materials. Its name is the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF)
Some very nice fractal images from the enigmatically named -P-’s photostream. The best ones also tend to have links to very high res versions.
Really nicely compiled evolution of nintendo characters from their early pixely beginnings to their textured, three-dimensional current selves.
Where to from here?
[via Fubiz]
Some really nice, colourful and vibrant 3d graphics, by Russian artist iuneWind.
The other work on this beautifully designed site is also definitely worth checking out.
When something so complex looks easy, one of the areas in which art is born. Believe me, the server cabinets I have wired aren’t a patch on this (no pun intended).
[via BoingBoing]
A pretty impressive water vapor based hologram projected in Tokyo Bay to promote Sony Pictures latest lochness movie.
[via BoingBoing Gadgets]
Some very fine fractal artworks selected for exhibition by the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007.
[via BoingBoing]