Archive for April 2007

links for 2007-04-30

In Links on 30 April 2007

NYPL Digital Gallery | Results
Scrap book of Russian bookjackets, 1917-1942
(tags: books design vintage jacket layout Russia)

Contemporary Lighting, Modern Ceiling Fans, and Modern Home Accessories at Lumens.com
(tags: furniture lighting shopping design home house interior)

New Release: Sprt.Wys (Spirus Unites All Worlds Apart in Dub)

In General on 26 April 2007 tagged 8-bit, analog, chillout, digital, dub, electronic, experimental, glitch, idm, media, mp3, Music, remix, sample, techno

I have uploaded Sprt.Wys (Spirus Unites All Worlds Apart in Dub) (10:14 minutes, 19 MB MP3) for your consideration.

links for 2007-04-25

In Links on 25 April 2007

Woot Wine : One Week, One Wine
(tags: wine shopping woot deals food bargains daily)

The oldest story ever written | Salon Books
How an ancient epic full of sex, violence and a pre-biblical flood got lost and found, and how its legacy lives on in “Lethal Weapon.”
(tags: books history writing mythology epic gilgamesh)

daniel shiffman — ICM
(tags: art [...]

links for 2007-04-23

In Links on 23 April 2007

www.customhousenumbers.com
(tags: shopping design type typography home house letters architecture numbers modern)

WestOnLetters.com — Letters.Logos.Sign Systems
(tags: home numbers house signs architecture design hardware shopping)

Built with Processing image set on Flickr

In Art, General on 22 April 2007 tagged Art, Flickr, generative, image, media-arts, processing, sketch

I have created a Built with Processing image set on Flickr to collect some of the more interesting sketches.

links for 2007-04-18

In Links on 18 April 2007

Blessed Unrest
In his new book, Paul Hawken looks at the history of the environmental movement and predicts its future.
(tags: green design environment paul-hawken history books)

links for 2007-04-13

In Links on 13 April 2007

Consumed – Benjamin R. Barber – Books – Review – New York Times
Benjamin R. Barber
(tags: consumer review culture books markets citizens globalism)

Processing: Random spheres 01

In Art, General on 10 April 2007 tagged 3D, animation, applet, blur, color, filter, Generative art, graphics, java, media-arts, open-source, processing, random, sphere

Random spheres 01 is my first foray into using 3D sphere and light functions in Processing. Above and below are a few stills (click to enlarge), and here’s a short movie of the results (932 KB .mov).

Processing: Random bezier blur & posterize

In Art, General on 9 April 2007 tagged animation, applet, bezier-curve, blur, color, filter, Generative art, graphics, java, media-arts, open-source, posterize, processing, random

I have been experimenting with filter() to blur and posterize in Processing, and Random bezier blur & posterize is the result. Above are a few stills (click to enlarge), but it works best in motion. Here’s a short movie of the results (824 KB .mov). If you let it go for a while, [...]

links for 2007-04-09

In Links on 9 April 2007

Core77 – 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design
By Allan Chochinov
(tags: Design sustainability green manifesto writing architecture efficiency materials products)

links for 2007-04-06

In Links on 6 April 2007

Arresting Faces
A new book argues the case for the mugshot as art
(tags: photography crime culture photo books mug vintage magazine images essay art)

Skyfarming – Turning Skyscrapers Into Crop Farms — New York Magazine
Imagine a cluster of 30-story towers on Governors Island or in Hudson Yards producing fruit, vegetables, and grains while also generating clean energy [...]