Only a few more years [if that!] until we stick Kinects on drones to do mapping for preservation, research, more accurate targeting, &c.
(Source: 10engines.blogspot.com)
Fighting Nazis on the way to work.
Nothing to add to what’s been said about this series already.
via that BLDGBLOG book
Those cubes in the middle? Processed bug bits. I’m most curious about the texture.
Click the picture to read more & don’t forget to check out those nifty chopsticks!
The New Aesthetic: The New Aesthetic tumblr is now closed.The New Aesthetic project was...
RIP. Did such a great job of keeping me informed of the latest pop culture/tech mashups, not to mention the drone porn. Guess I’ll have to find somewhere else to get my fix.
The New Aesthetic tumblr is now closed.
The New Aesthetic project was begun one year ago by James Bridle on May 6th, 2011, with a blog post at RIG London, and continued with a series of talks and discussions, online and offline. Many thanks to all of those who have participated in and…
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72 All I can say is to look at how he makes those tiger stripes, and then what he does to them. A practiced craft, passion, and lots of patience.
Part one of two.
(Source: geeksquadgangbang, via warrenellis)
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-webkit-filteris the new hotness, and it’s coming to your browser sooner than you’d expect!The filter aesthetic continues its apparently unstoppable march.
Despise it or adore it, this filtering brings us closer to total separation between content (HTML) and presentation (CSS). Go for it.
(via new-aesthetic)
The cost of a lumen of light is dropping precipitously; there must be more things than lightbulbs that can benefit from that. There’s vast amounts of databases, real-world data, and video that remains unindexed. Who knows what a billion Chinese Internet users will come up with? The quantified self is just getting going on its path to the programmable self. And no one has figured out how to do augmented reality in an elegant way.
The truth is, though, I’m a journalist, not an entrepreneur. I know that my contribution is more likely to be distilling a feeling that is already broadly felt rather than inventing the future. Still, I want us to get back to those exciting days where people were making predictions about the affordances of the future that seemed wonderful and impossible. No doubt the future remains unevenly distributed but now, when you get your bit, it seems as likely to include worse cell reception as it does seemingly magical superpowers.
This isn’t about startup incubators or policy positions. It’s not about “innovation in America” or which tech blog loves startups the most. This is about how Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives. Now it has and we’re all too stunned to figure out what’s next. So we watch Lana Del Ray turn circles in a thousand animated gifs.
Note: the first thing that pops out in this selection is that the author notes that entrepreneurs are the ones who create #theFuture. Not engineers, not tinkerers, not futurists, not hobbyists. Is this a bug or a feature?
The cost of a lumen of light is dropping precipitously; there must be more things than lightbulbs that can benefit from that. There’s vast amounts of databases, real-world data, and video that remains unindexed. Who knows what a billion Chinese Internet users will come up with? The quantified self is just getting going on its path to the programmable self. And no one has figured out how to do augmented reality in an elegant way.
The truth is, though, I’m a journalist, not an entrepreneur. I know that my contribution is more likely to be distilling a feeling that is already broadly felt rather than inventing the future. Still, I want us to get back to those exciting days where people were making predictions about the affordances of the future that seemed wonderful and impossible. No doubt the future remains unevenly distributed but now, when you get your bit, it seems as likely to include worse cell reception as it does seemingly magical superpowers.
This isn’t about startup incubators or policy positions. It’s not about “innovation in America” or which tech blog loves startups the most. This is about how Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives. Now it has and we’re all too stunned to figure out what’s next. So we watch Lana Del Ray turn circles in a thousand animated gifs.
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic (via new-aesthetic)
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Sometimes, I miss designing covers.
Sometimes.
Facetti was so inspired by Marber’s design that he also used it for Penguin’s fiction range, and would later apply it again, practically unchanged, to the blue Pelican books. Eventually Marber’s layout became the standard layout for the entire range of Penguin paperbacks.
(via The History of the ‘Marber Grid’ - The Book Design Blog)
It’ll only get worse, I promise.
(To the via notation; it’s only been a week and I’m already tired of the New Aesthetic as a category. Bah!)
posted by Nelson at 4:49 PM on April 14 [3 favorites]
Whining about the Future on the internet. Via discussion on a glitchy download of an episode of MAD MEN. Watch on Vimeo.
Thinking about the glitchy episode: at what point does a distorted copyrighted work become its own work? Would Jon Hamm have to be completely obscured by gray blocks, all brands rendered unrecognizable, and there no longer exist any indicators regarding the time period?
Barring the proliferation of darknets, creative peddlers of copyright works could start encoding videos that appear glitchy when run through standard playback applications. Distribution can happen in the open, with everyone thinking they’ve downloaded a broken copy of that video. Little do they know that a separate keyfile or password is required to decode the video properly. Thus, entertainment lawyers take their prosecutions elsewhere and the uncool kids have to find another source for the latest episode of some HBO show.
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Tiny Transforming Truck. Click the .gif for their website, click here for an article.
Part 1 : 10 layers liquid armour in durable casing.
Part 2 : 31 layers of untreated Kevlar.
