While working on the lens chipping process, my father showed me this article about the amazing work of Pascal Dangin. Retouching not being quite the right word for it, Dangin’s services are kept on-call by various A-list celebrities, whose photos will not go into a publication without Dangin’s subtle touch. An interesting intersection of creativity, [...]
There are usually only seven or eight people in the world who hear about things after I do, and three of them are in jail. It follows, then, that you have probably already heard about this man who drew a self portrait on the earth by sending a GPS device on a world tour using [...]
we made sure to get to new york before design and the elastic mind closed… some of our favorite things:
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I forgot to mention this part: thousands of folks (Lee states that most are teachers/educators) have downloaded the software to build the inexpensive whiteboards (Lee offers it for free from his wii projects page) thanks to proliferation of the demo on YouTube. Which makes me think that I should include some of those snippet videos [...]
Five stages of wii besottment:
#1: Curiosity: what is that blue light?
Takashi Aoyama revealed that the blue flashing light on the wii is actually timed to the bird call of the Japanese bush warbler, a familiar chirp heard throughout Japan in the spring and summertime.
#2: Infatuation: Oh Boy! I can check the weather!
The channels on the [...]
Does anyone know anything about this? Use it? I noticed it on our friend Chris’s blog and I think I like it. Instead of referencing the wikipedia entries for topic matter, you can have a snapshot of it when you hover over a little icon, like this:
It looks like you can customize the design to [...]
Check out these cool cups our friends at MIT are working on.
LED’s on the matching cup light up when either person is drinking.