Incredible 3D isometric map of Hong Kong.

Amon Tobin and the Music of ‘Infamous’ (YouTube).

The New Negroponte Switch: designing things that think they are servies and services that think they are things.

MUJI Global.

Akai APC40 Hacking Guide.

HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? Here’s hoping…

Design mind issue 10: Power, by frog design.

Lady Gaga wants to restore an aura of magic and mystery to the pop star.

Top Gear ‘Throughly Tests’ a Ford Fiesta (YouTube).

Lewis Hyde and The Enclosure of Silence.

Design is the Problem: An Interview with Nathan Shedroff.

All maps advocate.

R&D 2.0: Fewer Engineers, More Anthropologists.

Random font test 03 is my first foray into using text functions in Processing. Yes, I’m still working with procedural code. Eventually, I hope to get my head around true object oriented programming (OOP) for more interactivity and generative art goodness. Above and below are a few stills (click to enlarge), and here’s a short movie of the results (1.25 MB .mov), also on Vimeo.

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