Feltron Eight

2009-05-18
Feltron 2008 Annual Report Nicholas Felton spends much of his time thinking about data, charts and our daily routines.

He is the author of several Personal Annual Reports that collate countless measurements into a rich assortment of graphs and maps reflecting the year’s activities.”.

Feltron 2009 Annual Report “He is the co-founder of Daytum.com, a site for counting and communicating daily data, and frequent designer of information graphics for numerous corporations and publications.”.

Top: The 2008 Report: Dining/Drinking, detail.
Bottom : The 2009 Report: Relationships/Activities, detail.

Espresso Book Machine

2009-05-01

The Espresso Book Machine is essentially an ATM for books.

Using digital files, it automatically prints, binds, and trims, on demand at point of sale, perfect-bound, library-quality paperback books with full-color covers.

The EBM’s growing digital library includes nearly two million titles.”.

Categories : books, technology

9 0 0 0

2009-04-29
the art of losing 9 0 0 0: a photostream on Flickr.

Above: el arte de perder (The art of losing).

Categories : illustration, photo

Khoda

2009-03-10
khoda

“What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting?”

Khoda. A short film by Reza Dolatabadi. Animation by Adam Thomson.

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Categories : animation

Flip Mino

2009-01-07
The Flip Mino is a skinnable pocket digital camcorder.

Internal Memory: 2GB (60 minutes)
Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels
Bitrate: 4.0 Mbps (average)
Aperture: f/2.4
Fixed focus, digital zoom
Dimensions: 100 x 50 x 16 mm
Weight: 100 g

Price: from $199 (in USA).

Flip Mino

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Categories : technology

Little people

2009-01-02
little people “Little handpainted people, left in London to fend for themselves.”.
Little People: a tiny street art project powered by Slinkachu*.

Above: It all went wrong.

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Categories : photo

Happy New Year

2008-12-30
train
Categories : video

Oliver Jeffers

2008-12-29
Saul Kripke uses the function exclusive disjunction to establish that there is no fact, either in one’s mind (inner) or in one’s past behaviour (outer), that fixes the meaning of the words one utters.”. Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers “is an artist, designer, illustrator and writer from Northern Ireland.
These paintings are based on conversations about the relationship between traditional figurative painting, human behaviour and mathematics.”.

Above: Not A Something But Not A Nothing Either, oil and vinyl on canvas, from the Additional Information exhibition.

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Categories : art, books, illustration

Centraal Beheer

2008-12-28
apeldoorn

Centraal Beheer “is an insurance company sited in The Netherlands, famous for its campaign of TV commercials.

These are short humoristic spots, generally without dialogue, in which something goes horrendously wrong.”.

See, for example, Zweefvliegers (Glider).

Above: Acupunctuur (Acupuncture, 2006). From YouTube.

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Categories : video

Forvo

2008-12-27

“Ever wondered how a word is pronounced?
Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you.
You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.”.
Forvo: all the words in the world, pronounced.

Categories : language