Archive for September, 2007

street art: skulls scratched from dirt

Posted in street art on September 24th, 2007

an interesting approach to graffiti; dust and dirt inside a tunnel are scratched away to generate skulls:

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/07092402.html

*thanks rainer*

street art: street painting – different artists

Posted in street art on September 23rd, 2007

amazing 3D effects, at a huge scale

http://weburbanist.com/2007/09/21/3-amazing-3d-street
-artists-urban-graffiti-from-around-the-world/#

*thanks phillip*

video: folding a swan

Posted in paper engineering, perception theory, web 2.0 on September 22nd, 2007

folding a traditional swan might be trivial, but the intersection between TV and internet isn´t. the link leads to a youtube video showing how to fold the “prison break swan”, an ordinary origami swan. Still, the video was viewed over half a million times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYfGu8HnAv0

typo: nice modular fonts

Posted in typo on September 22nd, 2007

http://www.super-script.com/typo-minimal.html

wicked game: bloxorz

Posted in games on September 11th, 2007

simple, yet tricky:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz

*thanks rainer*

interactive music sequencer: reactogon

Posted in audio/music, interactive design on September 9th, 2007

a sequencer based on a touchscreen, on a hexagonal grid:

http://technabob.com/blog/2007/09/08/reactogon-interactive-sequencer-reminds-me-of-star-trek/

note also this one, already posted earlier:

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?media

graphic design: limkis

Posted in graphic design on September 7th, 2007

very impressive vector artwork by a very young russian lady:

http://limkis.com/vector.html

via notcot

computer history: a timeline

Posted in perception theory on September 7th, 2007

a very complete history of computer graphics:

http://sophia.javeriana.edu.co/~ochavarr/computer_graphics_history/historia/

interior design: ikea 2.0

Posted in architecture/interior on September 7th, 2007

designprojects that incoporate ikea parts:

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/

art: sculpture

Posted in art on September 6th, 2007

a list of very strange sculpures

http://www.oddee.com/item_89236.aspx