[SWEET. -egg]
Pittance sez, “This is my brand new 3D printed Fisher-Price record player record (for the old clockwork music box one, not the new electronic one) playing “Still Alive” from Portal. It’s entirely made using Processing and printed at Shapeways and, now I know how to do it, I really hope I can make more with different tunes – suggestions?”
Inspired by a Warren Ellis tweet, Robert made this fitting Newt bumper-sticker.
(via Super Punch)
Hey y’all,
Want to help us choose an apartment? We’re renting an apartment from here to stay in for our first month in Buenos Aires. Unfortunately that means we’re paying tourist prices — hopefully we can find something for half the price once we get down there and look for apartments in person — but it gives us a place to land and seems like the best option (other ideas welcomed, though!).
Here’s the list of apartments that meet our criteria. If you’re interested, take a look, and leave a comment saying which ones you like best (probably easiest if you copy the link into the comment). Or if you notice something bad about one of them, let us know that too!
Thanks 🙂
http://www.4rentargentina.com/buenos-aires-apartments/san-telmo/san-juan-and-balcarce-818.html
http://www.4rentargentina.com/buenos-aires-apartments/palermo/bonpland-and-nicaragua-505.html
http://www.4rentargentina.com/buenos-aires-apartments/san-telmo/carlos-calvo-and-piedras-1598.html
http://www.4rentargentina.com/buenos-aires-apartments/palermo/humboldt-and-cordoba-i-2083.html
http://www.4rentargentina.com/buenos-aires-apartments/palermo/republica-dominicana-boulevard-and-coronel-diaz-1187.html
http://www.4rentargentina.com/
Make money fast with the sensational new T.V. Bank:
(Insert quarter into your computer to enlarge the image above. If not thrilled and delighted beyond words, your quarter will be returned.)
After the MPAA orders its minions in the Justice Dept. to shut down Boing Boing, I will continue to earn a living with the sensational new Television Bank. (Via The Big Blog of Kids’ Comics, thanks Ruben!)
[Wow.]
Our friends at Adafruit Industries just announced FLORA, a new wearable electronics development platform.
For the last few years Ladyada has been thinking about everything she wanted in a wearable electronics platform for Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. After months of planning, designing and working with partners around the world for the best materials and accessories, we can share what we’re up to. The hardware is now in the hands of our staff and testers!
Announcing the FLORA, Adafruit’s wearable electronics platform and accessories
When the sky crashed in Odessa:
This 2009 image captures the scene on a foggy night in Odessa, Ukraine, when a digital billboard crashed and displayed a floating error warning in the night sky.
Windows Error Box Floating in the Air (5 pics)
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Rugs made from skinned soft toys:
This magnificent thing is Agustina Woodgate‘s “No Rain No Rainbows,” a rug made from skinned teddybears. There are many more. They are equally wondrous.
augustina woodgate, an artist originally from buenos aires and now based in miami, has created ‘skin rugs’, a collection of hand-sewn rugs
made from the skin of donated stuffed animals. the body of each carpet is modeled after that of an authentic bear skin rug but where
the series deviates from the standard form is in each tapestry having been formed from the fur several plush animal toys rather than that of a live animal.
woodgate sews each of the toys together in order to create giant floor-coverings with a varied color palate and semi-symmetrical patterning. her collection
evokes a spiritual or nostalgic reaction in the viewer as they contemplate their childhood, when the textures of the artist’s tapestry series were representative
of comfort and security.
‘no rain no rainbows’ by agustina woodgate, 2011
(via Neatorama)
Cross-section of a tree played like a record on a turntable:
This music — which sounds like a moody piano soundtrack for a existentialist movie about a rainy day — is made by slicing a tree in cross-section, sticking it on a turntable, and dropping a tone-arm with a PlayStation Eye Camera in the head, and processing its output through Ableton Live. It’s called Years, and it was created by Bartholomäus Traubeck.
Play the Rings of a Tree Trunk Like a Record
[What? What?!? -egg]
…And what’s amazing is the process. Joe Sabia shares this YouTube video featuring Chilean artist Fabian Gaete Maureira of arte100cia (Arte Sciencia, or “Art Science”) that’s making the internet rounds today. Via Reddit, here’s the artist’s blog, and his Flickr stream with finished works. Dude is like Bob Ross on crack. The one below looks like it could be a cover for a horse_ebook!
[This is absolutely amazing. Experimental VJs take note. -egg]
Sebastian Schmieg of the Netherlands created this video by feeding a transparent image to Google Image Search and asking it to find similar images, and then taking the top result and feeding it back into the similarity algorithm, 2951 times. It’s a wonderful look at an evolutionary process.
Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1
(via Kottke)