Steve Martin’s gospel song for atheists: “
A reader writes, “From Austin City Limits (2010) Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers perform his original a capella ‘gospel’ tune for the non-believers among us.”
Steve Martin: Atheists Don’t Have No Songs
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Six-year-old thrashing on a plank: “
Asher Bradshaw is a six-year old skateboard wizard: watch him thrash like a fiend at the Venice Beach skate-park and marvel.
6 year old skateboarder Asher Bradshaw at Venice Beach Skatepark
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Imagining an augmented reality future that’s not an advertising hell: “
London design firm Berg and advertising agency Dentsu produced this short video, ‘Media Surfaces: Incidental Media,’ demonstrating a vision for a future in which media surfaces are everywhere, but are used to be playful, informative and to better connect you to your friends and family:
Each of the ideas in the film treat the surface as a focus, rather than the channel or the content delivered. Here, media includes messages from friends and social services, like foursquare or Twitter, and also more functional messages from companies or services like banks or airlines alongside large traditional big ‘M’ Media (like broadcast or news publishing).All surfaces have access to connectivity. All surfaces are displays responsive to people, context, and timing. If any surface could show anything, would the loudest or the most polite win? Surfaces which show the smartest most relevant material in any given context will be the most warmly received.
Media Surfaces: Incidental Media
(via Beyond the Beyond)
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Nick Hafermaas’ eCLOUD at SJC: “
My friend Louis Rossetto of Tcho told me about the gorgeous eCLOUD, created by Dan Goods, Nik Hafermaas, and Aaron Koblin. It’s on permanent display between gates 22 and 23 at the San Jose International Airport. I’ll be checking it out in a couple of weeks when I’m there.
The eCLOUD is a dynamic sculpture inspired by the volume and behavior of an idealized cloud. Made from unique polycarbonate tiles that can fade between transparent and opaque states, its patterns are transformed periodically by real time weather from around the world.
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Hold Fast, a documentary about anarchy and sailing: “
Via the BB Submitterator, Boing Boing reader cibomahto says,
Ever dream of taking off for the equator, fixing up an old boat, and then sailing it off into the sunset? Well, a few years ago, a group lead by Moxie Marlinspike did just that. Under the banner of the Anarchist Yacht Club, they migrated to Florida, found and restored a boat that they named the Pestilence, then proceeded to sail it around the Bahamas. It’s the ultimate adventure, and luckily they captured their experience in the documentary Hold Fast.
More at MAKE online, and you can watch the trailer above or here at Vimeo.
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Plushie mutant artwork of Zoe Williams: “
Zoe Williams’s extraordinary textile artworks blend tentacles, felted bunnies, and miscellaneous anatomical bits and pieces to makes something that looks like Hellraiser crossed with the plushie aisle at Toys R Us. I like it. A lot.
(via Geisha Asobi)
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Flowchart: How will you vote in the next election?: “Holytaco has a very funny flowchart to help you determine how you will vote in the upcoming U.S. elections.
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Lola Dupre’s strange photomontage portraits: “
Scotland-based artist Lola Dupre cuts up photographs and collages the snips into mind-bendingly weird and witty deformed portraits. She is a master of scissors, glue, and surrealism. Hi-Fructose posted an interview with Dupre and includes shots of the cutting room floor too. From Hi-Fructose:
First an image for manipulation has to be selected and sometimes this is what takes most of my time. Going into a project I often have a very fixed idea of what I want to work with: finding the image with the right background, foreground, resolution, and content can take all day sometimes! I usually search Google images for sources, or alternatively I scan images that myself or my contacts have.
When I have selected the right image to use, I crop and print this at various sizes and edits on various sizes of paper. Working like this, the only limitation is the resolution of the source image. I am currently planning to do some giant paste up art works on buildings and walls, and this requires just the same formula but slightly tweaked…
Originally I would cut up perhaps two or three images or work from a small handful of duplicates. But with time my technique has developed and now I need more! This is just technique development – like how a young painter might begin work with just a few colours of poster paints and one large brush, and years later they are working with multiple colours and honed techniques to blend and create with all the experiences they have learned through practice and exploring their medium.
For me, I take a certain delight in the ready-made colour schemes and the detail of the images I work from.
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Jessica Joslin’s Hybrids show: “
Sculptor Jessica Joslin will be exhibiting her fantastic new work at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood, November 5 – 28, 2010.
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, 4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CAArtist Reception: Friday, November 5th; 8-11
Book Signing to precede from 7-8
Jessica Joslin’s Hybrids show is a circus of oddities, a mixed-media menagerie of unexpected creatures. A whimsical cat in a red leather harness harness pulls a polycephalic partner on a wooden cart. An exquisite two headed tropical bird with lush brass plumage preens on it’s perch and a troupe of monkey-cat hybrids engage in mysterious shenanigans. ‘Hybrids’ is a menagerie of distinctive creations, its frolicsome fauna beckon you to come see the show!
Preview Jessica’s Hybrids show.
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Ambitious and improbable gears: video: “
Back in September, I blogged Quilty1987’s mesmerizing YouTube tutorial on making weird, erratically shaped gears that really mesh and spin. At the time, I pondered what these would look like if they were part of a larger, more ambitious project. Now I know: here’s another Quilty1987 (AKA Clayton Boyer) video of several geared creations that do improbable and wonderful tricks with teeth and spins.
(via JWZ)
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