Moon River: Entertainment

Analogue pixels

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:03:19 GMT

Ping, the most basic command in computer networking, is a sort of greeting among computers, if I ping an address, it replies, so we know we can communicate. Ping Genius Loci(PGL) is an architectural installation trying to build a network into the poetics of the place. PGL is built up from 300 radio networked, solar powered, self sustainable intelligent analogue pixels, that are placed on a 20 by 20 meters grid. These pixels function in the bright sunshine, and are interfacing the people walking in the grid. These pixels function in the bright sunshine, and are interfacing the people walking in the grid.

The real thing looking like this:

Processing (an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound)

has been used extensively throughout this project, both for developing pixel shapes, and interaction scenarios. This page is an illustrated archive of these sketches, but if interested, you can visit out full Open Development Archives, that has all stages of this project recorded, from concepts to printed circuits.

Processing Sketches: Form * Content * Interaction - hitting each of these beautiful images - leads to a page with an interactive simulation

via anothercompany

Tiny Globes

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:13:02 GMT

Mixed Media Painting
by s.Rankin of selflesh

Hope

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:06:26 GMT

Hope. Phillip Toledano Photography. {via art nudes}

virtual festival experience

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:13:29 GMT

BBC Radio 1 is giving music fans a chance to immerse themselves in the virtual festival experience.

Radio 1 piloted a simulation of the Big Weekend in an online, virtual world known as Second Life.

Representations of people in the world, known as avatars, were invited to teleport or fly to the Radio 1 Island where large screens were broadcasting live video.

Radio 1 team have only gone and built a virtual festival in the also-free Second Life:

via newscientist

The Wall of Silence

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:03:42 GMT

Franco Matticchio, (Varese 1957) The Wall of Silence Ink Drawing

Early Comics Archive

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:21:17 GMT

Andy, a comic artist, who has great works in his site, such as this Abstract Comics

Abstract Comics

He gives a time line of comic in history from antiquity (300-1000) till the early years of the 20th century...now, for sure his got his own interpretation of what comics was in early centuries...worth watching if only for the beauty of some ancient items...

The Battle of the Lamb, (Northern Spanish, c. 1200)

the sheep market

Sun, 28 May 2006 16:46:36 GMT

silly maybe...but soooo sweet, and sheeps are for ever treasured with in many of us, if only because of "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery....

look at thesheepmarket

It is a collection of 10,000 unique sheep, hand-drawn by workers hired via the Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. each worker was paid 2 cents to "draw a sheep facing to the left." average time spent drawing sheep: 105 seconds. average wage: $0.69 / hour.
via this great site: infosthetics

Pinhole photos of Carnival Chalk

Sun, 14 May 2006 20:45:47 GMT

Concurrent with the earliest days of American radio, film, and comic strips, three dimensional carnival chalk figures were won as prizes at carnivals throughout the United States (1915-1940s). These gaudy, tantalizingly tasteless doll-sized fantasy figures were used to symbolize, idolize, and replicate the first Hollywood stars, radio personalities, and cartoon characters from the Sunday comics.

Miss America and Nude Miss America

People of all ages would stream to local carnivals, a longed-for form of entertainment, to play games of chance hoping to win a carnival chalk prize of their choice to take home. Harmless as this seemed, the evocative qualities in these stereotypical figures only reinforced the American population's deepest roots toward gender roles for women, men, race bias, and fantasy. Eric Renner's Pinhole photos of Carnival Chalk

Mae West

Carmen Amaya

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the simplified pencil-sharpener

Sat, 06 May 2006 19:07:24 GMT

A collection of cartoons by Rube Goldberg: machines, perpetual motion machines, and other strange and wonderful contraptions which depict the most elaborate and ridiculous devices to accomplish the most mundane tasks.

Rube Goldberg gets his think-tank working and evolves the simplified pencil-sharpener.
Open window (A) and fly kite (B). String (C) lifts small door (D) allowing moths (E) to escape and eat red flannel shirt (F). As weight of shirt becomes less, shoe (G) steps on switch (H) which heats electric iron (I) and burns hole in pants (J). Smoke (K) enters hole in tree (L), smoking out opossum (M) which jumps into basket (N), pulling rope (O) and lifting cage (P), allowing woodpecker (Q) to chew wood from pencil (R), exposing lead. Emergency knife (S) is always handy in case opossum or the woodpecker gets sick and can't work.

* If you haven't yet seen "The Cog", the 2003 Honda Accord ad featuring an incredibly complex Rube Goldberg machine assembled entirely out of Accord parts, you must take the opportunity to do so now. Costing millions to produce, and requiring over 600 takes, the spot uses no cgi -- the entire setup is real, and had to be rebuilt every time something went wrong. More details on the ad can be found on Snopes.com. It's absolutely unbelievable.

via Blue Tea

Your Personal DNA Report

Thu, 04 May 2006 22:04:54 GMT

So i'm an Animated Artist. (what ever that means..)

Animated Artist

This is the result i got after taking this originaly designed self-testing technique..Check the Personal DNA
(they also allow sharing and viewing results of others -probably they have *community* concept as so many other new-born sites) via sapphosbreathing

The solution to a mid-life crisis

Tue, 02 May 2006 19:53:33 GMT

(A swift change from my previous posts today, for tonight began Israel Independence Day celebration)

The solution to a mid-life crisis Or Better: "Join the Circus!"

Only at two in the morning can "Start a blog" look like the solution to a mid-life crisis. Greg Knauss (via)

Lawrence Gipe Zirkus und Varieté" 2005 oil on polyflex

Circus, what I love about it is the interval - between the glory and shinning outfits and the dark paths and side ways stretching between the tents, the corners that are not lightened by the huge light bulbs.

I'm fascinated by this vagabond* people and their make believe life...something about it has a mysterious chemistry interests, and the dark side is no less fascinating then the exposed one..maybe it has to do with childhood memories, of childhood movies and books...

David Redhouse's Photo Album

In this lovely book, "101 EXPERIENCES DE PHILOSOPHIE QUOTIDIENNE", Roger-Pol Droit a french philosopher, suggest us to take a fresh look at life, at the beauty, the body-soul, identity, knowledge issues, by fresh concrete exploitative way of being "the see the entire world in one tiny grain of sand, to grasp infinity in a handful and eternity in an hour" among the 101 experiments - humorous and pensive, one of my preferred is called "Going to the Circus" ammm...I've posted before and copied the exercise in Hebrew. I'll try to translate it to English:

James Havard Figure on a Wheel oil, wax and collage on wood 2004

.."Even if you are not very attracted to the idea, make this exercise and go to circus, find your self a sit as near to the arena as you can. better you choose a small circus, not an praised one, but rather forlorn. avoid Madison square garden and other big institute such a this. because there one finds it hard to distinguish what makes the circus so touching, the mixture of wretchedness and dreams."

Lawrence Gipe The Caberet Series #4 monoprint

"For in places such as this there is something despising. In a fundamental and necessary way.
The sawdust on the lane, the smell of animal droppings, the dust of the dome of the worn out tent, the mold of the sweat on its panel. It is important that it will be a closed space: the arena cycle, the clothed sky, the banisters. The Circus defines space to it self. A world that does not mixed into the rest of the universe. in a way the circus define it self AS the human world."

Lawrence Gipe The Caberet Series #3 monoprint

" It is about creating a bubble of dreams inside this limited space. In a very elementary way, even a very foolish way, or even vulgar: Sequins, glass, sparkling things. shiny as if to resemble...a faked splendor, a faked magnificence, a sort of affected easygoing feeling, a sort of artificial joy on a foundation of wretched sorrow. That's what makes the Circus touching, exemplary, a simple model but human: to build ridiculous dreams inside the filth and the mud, but with persistence...You have to find so your way to the tent, to make the queue. to pay expensively for the discomfort, the erosion, the stench. To be sited uncomfortably for a long time "

Lawrence Gipe Painting No. 4 from Zirkus and Varieté h 96 w 124"
oil on polyflex 2006 bentley gallery

"you will over come easily all those discomforts. you will be convinced to escape from the distress, to follow the acrobat's weightlessness, the jugglers competence . You will be able to dream of humanity full of crystal bubbles, amputated by floodlights, smiling with trumpet blasts, happy with the cotton candy. You will almost think that the people on stage are beautiful, brave, appropriate, saturated by good virtues, capable of heroic deeds, bigger then life, their body shines as if they were gods, and they are so flexible, quick, light, fluffy. you will float for a while in this sequin - bubble.

And then, and that is most important, most touching, something get screwed up. a ball is falling, a hook is dropped, a swing is stuck. you remark that the beautiful acrobat got a hole in her outfit. you see all of sudden some thing pitiful. A pride that was humiliated till oppression. An earthy dream, that is to say stained, more or less wounded. embarrassing failure. an imagery of human obstinacy. you will have to get back to the circus again and again."

Dean Allen

Cognitive seduction

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:43:55 GMT

Typology of User Experience Pleasures. The author suggest those as keys for games makers, but i see most of it as a great list that can define what many of web users in general are looking for...

(in no particular order)

1. Discovery
User experience as exploration of new territory

2. Challenge
User experience as obstacles to overcome, goals lying just beyond current skill and knowledge levels

3. Narrative
User experience as story arc (user on hero's journey) and character identification

4. Self-expression
User experience as self-discovery and creativity

5. Social framework
User experience as an opportunity for interaction/fellowship with others

6. Cognitive Arousal
User experience as brain teaser

7. Thrill
User experience as risk-taking with a safety net

8. Sensation
User experience as sensory stimulation

9. Triumph
User experience as opportunity to kick ass

10. Flow
User experience as opportunity for complete concentration, extreme focus, lack of self-awareness

11. Accomplishment
User experience as opportunity for productivity and success

12. Fantasy
User experience as alternate reality

13. Learning
User experience as opportunity for growth and improvement

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Le voyage dans la lune

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:42:09 GMT

By George Meiles, an old 1902 film from france about a small group of scientists that travel to space on a rocket to get to the moon. (watch the movie)

via Pruned

Things I Might Be Convinced to Give My Left Arm For.

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:24:05 GMT

BY GIBSON HOLUB

World peace

Cloak of invisibility

Bottomless margarita

Pegasus unicorn

Fifteen minutes with Jesus (or Bono)

Magic credit card

Bionic robot arm

more LISTS via mcsweeneys

Jumpcut

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:44:18 GMT

Jumpcut allows you to explore, create and remix videos You have to try the remix feature. Absolutely fascinating. Go find a clip, click on remix to be able to edit each piece of video, reorder them, change soundtracks. It's like a light web-based iMovie and it's pretty damn sweet... via

and i'm still waiting for Dabble to be open, for i've heard it's going to be as cool as Jumpcut, i guess after most of us have becomed great photographers, now it's time to move ahead to movie making...

I Like You

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 10:21:28 GMT

Send this animation to someone you like and want to know better

Via realitycarnival

reach beyond the screen

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:57:35 GMT

Hyperfabric is a new interface that lets you reach beyond the screen. It's a very "touchable" surface, made out of an elastic-like fabric called "Hyperfabric". The screen warps like rubber, and can sense how hard your press it, where you press it, and you can even have lots of people using it at once. You really feel like you are going "through" the screen.

You can press, grab, twist, punch and play with the screen. It can even support your full bodyweight. The Hyperfabric screen is specially designed to communicate with a computer to generate interactive computer graphics, in realtime.

What this means is we can create beautiful, magical scenes. You can see sparks fly out of your fingertips. You can cast magic spells from your hands. You can press your face into the hyperfabric to release fairies, or stir up ghosts in the dead of night.

via sensoryimpact

Freud

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:24:01 GMT

Tullio Pericoli

Design Anarchy

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:54:52 GMT

Design Anarchy

Flash Preview (worth IT!)

Design Anarchy examines the historical roots of commercial design culture, the impact of the post-modern sensibility and the problem of aesthetic recuperation. It also takes us on a tour of psychodesign and true cost design, two truly revolutionary schools of design practice and thought.

Via purselipsquarejaw

101 things

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:25:49 GMT

From: 101 things to do with your Ribbon

From: 101 Things to Do in an Elevator

NO, it's not what you had in mind :)

From: 101 THINGS TO DO WITH CD

Use as party invitations, handmade labels giving details and directions.

From: 100 Things to do with Books

Describe a field trip you would like to take because of your book.

(i was thinking for quit some time of making a journey to the exotic islands of Grace -following Henry miller beautiful book The Colossus of Maroussi)

From: 101 Things to Do Instead of Smoking

Walk in an old graveyard with the man you love.
(i haven't come up with anything to do INSTEAD...yet )

From: 101 Things To Do Before You Die

Soak in the Mud and Waters of the Dead Sea ( Hell, why should i do that for? I'd rather

Visit the Mysterious Blue Grotto in Capri)

From: 101 Things to do in Eshowe,Zululand

Zionist Spiritual Experience. (where is this place???)

I'll end with: 101 Things You Can Do to Stop A War

101 Ribbons

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:31:11 GMT

101 things to do with your Ribbon...

PDF FILE

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close watch

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:36:26 GMT

Why cats love high-def TV / by clive thompson

"...an interesting aesthetic question that erupted when I wrote about HDTV a few months ago. My piece noted that many famous stars look totally hideous in HD, because their previously-unnoticed imperfections -- tiny wrinkles, face-lift seams -- suddenly become glaring flaws. But all the experts I talked to noted that nature shows look fabulous. Humans in closeup wither; but nature flowers, because its beauty is fractal -- the closer you get, the more you can notice the elegant nuances of a leaf, a river, or an iguana..."

collision detection

FLYING LADYBIRD

Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a seven-spot ladybird beetle (Coccinella septempunctata) hovering over a flower. The ladybird's outer wings are strengthened into a hard covering (red) which protects the delicate flight wings underneath. In a scanning electron microscope (SEM), the specimen is scanned with a beam of electrons, creating photograph-like images with an exceptional depth of field. The raw black-and-white image has been naturalistically coloured on computer. The magnification of the ladybird is x17 in the 16x12-inch prints and x22 in the 20x16-inch prints.

Fractal In Nature
The flower stalk of a "Century Plant", long since dead. They flower very infrequently, although not quite 100 years apart. Taken in a nearby wilderness preserve outside of Santa Rosa, California.

affiches de films

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:44:04 GMT

find more
via gatsugatsu

Hand Shadows

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:37:59 GMT

Originally published by Griffith and Farran in 1859. now is online

A quoi ca Sert L'amour?

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:11:22 GMT

A short music video, in French, but what the hac :-)

by Louis Clinchy at Cube. "A quoi ca sert L'amour?". [Edith Piaf et Theo Sarapo].

the movie (takes some time to download -but worth IT!) via

DreamLines

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:30:07 GMT

Ever wondered what your dream might look like?

This Site developed the technology to search for images on Google related to the dream subject you enter, then a Java applet retrieves the images one by one....COOL

Dream here via

mysteries

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:20:43 GMT

something to look and listen. the lake mysteries via

AUGUSTINE INTERVIEWS GOD

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:36:26 GMT

Augustine:I've been trying to think where I could take you that you haven't already yet been to...

God: And?
Augustine: I'm taking you on a tour to my inner world

GOD INTERVIEW NUMBER FIFTEEN

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:06:16 GMT

it's late at night, alone and not alone, and finally, very much alone...
getting back to one small addiction of mine...

Famous DJ’s

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:34:34 GMT

Toy, David Guetta & Henri Maurel
From the series "Ghost Stars" or "Les barockeurs de diamants"
Cédric Tanguy for PRÉFÉRENCES mag 2005

via ashleyb

Color like no other

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:17:09 GMT

Sending 250,000 multi-coloured 'superballs' bouncing down the streets of San Francisco.

A Commercial movie. Hallucinating view, Enjoy. via

New Press

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:04:59 GMT

Lately i came across few independent Mags in PDF format, about art, theory and so on..and am asking my self whether it is the continuation of the end of printed mags and printed newspapers? i find myself, not being able to hold this creeping papers in my hands and reading them all together, i bored, i'm used to reading long texts via the computer screen, and i control to the extant that i choose the content!

not to mention all the great bloggers, that some of them are real professional in their field, or, just know how to write!

Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel are pleased to announce the publication of Below the Fold:, an occasional publication from the Winterhouse Institute. The first issue is available for Design Observer readers here. [WD]

FOUR MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

A pdf of the zine can be found here.

Revolutionary Italian, Soviet, German and Spanish Songs

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:29:33 GMT

Pages Paroles et MP3 Chants révolutionnaires Italiens, Soviétiques, Allemands ou Espagnols. COOL

About Women Pirates

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:08 GMT

Sunday, working day, here in Israel.

I'm at the office, and for some reason, find my self,reading about Women Pirates

Ann Bonny

(=_=) stay up all night

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:22:28 GMT

{[(-_-)(-_-)]} sleep together

(-¡-)y-~~~~ smoke a cigarette

(((o(^¡^")o))) tremble with joy

(^O^) Being glad!

(o|o) Ultra-man

( ^_^)Û---------Û(^_^ ) hello hello

The difference between Western Smileys(Emoticons)(1 byte) and Japanese ones(2 bytes)

Apparently, Japanese Smileys(Emoticons) are read vertically while eastern Smileys(Emoticons) are read hosizontally. And Japanese Smileys have more variation than eastern ons. I think the reason is that while American(alphabet) letters in computer are 1 byte, Japanese letters in computer are 2 bytes, so Japanese letters can have more characters. And also, Japanese sentences contain Chinese characters which are phonograms, so it is easier to express and recognize something graphic with letters for Japanese people.

Second reason seems to that Japanese comics(manga) have many ways of express their feelings and situations by certain lines or graphics and Japanese do the same thing when they create smileys. So, a large number of Japanese Smileys(Emoticons) are influenced by comics.

Miniature Babies

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:38:18 GMT

Gallery

Island

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:54:28 GMT

I’ve been sitting here doing nothing for several hours now. By “nothing” I mean that I ate a pear, went downstairs to check the mail (there was none), and ignored three emails and a phone call. Mostly I thought. The most interesting thought I had was about a desert island. I tried to imagine what I would do if I was stuck alone on a desert island with no media of any kind—no computer, phone, television, books, music, magazines… nothing; not even pencil and paper...

here it gets real funny: oblivio

Now, you can try unchain my heart

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:06:30 GMT

Work of Matthias Megyeri Product Designer (1973-) Design Mart - Design Museum Touring Exhibition

“BillyB” Padlock
Design: Matthias Megyeri
Production: Sweet Dreams Security™

Razor Wire
Design: Matthias Megyeri
Production: Sweet Dreams Security™

“Heart to Heart” Chain at the Design Museum London,
Design: Matthias Megyeri
Production: Sweet Dreams Security™

Matthias Megyeri site

the erotic coloring book

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:48:47 GMT

the erotic coloring book published in 1975 by berlin & associates out of l.a., illustrated by a guy named craig berlin. it’s high-larious and most assuredly nsfw. possibly nsfpptdhf as well (not safe for people prone to dangerous hallucinogenic flashbacks).

via THENONIST

How to...

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:12:47 GMT

how to be creative

via growbrain

Vacuuming the Lungs

http://www.ftrain.com/lungvacuuming.html

The Art of the Apology (via growbrain)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kimberly_a/329121.html

How To Give A Great Presentation (via growbrain)

http://www.to-done.com/2005/07/how-to-give-a-great-presentation/

I want to know how to make this signs...can you?

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:07:22 GMT

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(¸.·´ (¸.·´ .·´¸¸.·´¯`·->

taken from a talkback in here: (fun stuff)

http://spaces.msn.com/members/babydolly1964/Blog/cns!1pFeFjDGHJFtajOdahNmyNgg!1054.entry

How I missed Her!

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:44:11 GMT

I have found her, on a rainy day, a year ago (or so). my mood was terrible, somehow, reading her stories, as well as surfing in to the world that she reveled, made my day!

And so, i was finding myself visiting her site every day and especially - i loved the "getting lost" feeling, the surfing* this * HiGH* feeling and being swapt into a Journy and being led by the out most sense of adventure and joy of new discoveries - (even if virtual)

then, my life took some turns, and i haven't been to her site for few months, and recently when i tried - the site was gone! i was a bit worried for her...prayed she is OK out there

luckily enough i wrote the owner of an other great starting the day place, and just got an answer that Ann is doing OK and have now a NEW PLACE of her own!

I am so HapPy...well sort off....