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If you only knew the power of the dark slide
A dark slide from Polaroid-compatible instant film sold by The Impossible Project.
Basically the darkslide is a purely technical necessity, protecting the film from light as long as it is outside the camera. Impossible is converting the darkslides in collector cards by transforming them into an area to present art projects. On a regular basis we will invite artists to develop refreshing, creative and inspiring content that turns the Impossible Darkslides into unique pieces of art.
You can see all 123 dark slides here.
Images from The Impossible Project.
Life imitates subway maps
A current sample of visualization of thesis data -- in this case, the CIDR Report. Vertical position on the graph reflects ranking on the CIDR Report.
Apple's cleverness extends to demo iPhones
Dangerous and Unlawful
If you're going to require occupancy signs, you may as well require them to be well-designed too. Seen quite frequently in New York -- this was at the MoMA.
I am curious why "unlawful" is on it's own line, however.The unintentional beauty of making semiconductors
At risk of the blog becoming stale already, I thought I'd fall back on some older material of mine. Back in the summer of 2007 I worked in a semiconductor research fab lab. Everything was pretty much focused on the engineering, and yet there were unintentionally beautiful things to be found here and there. Like the brilliant colors on wafers caused by thin-film interference in the silicon dioxide we grew and later etched, or the patterns created by rows of copper and stainless steel gas tubing that snaked outside of the cleanroom, delivering vital gasses to the equipment therein. I brought a camera in one day to capture some of this unintentional beauty.
This photo captures the perfectly flat, mirror-like surface of a set of freshly cleaned wafers in a quartz boat, waiting to be loaded into an oxidation furnace. The no-lint wipe that the boat is sitting on becomes very interesting with the depth of field. The red dot on the wafers is from a power-on lamp on a sputtering machine behind the camera.
Sharpie pokes fun at protestors
While perhaps not exactly traditionally form+function, I thought this ad was interesting. Perhaps a subtle joke from some conservative-leaning ad agency? I don't think the function of this scene is the type of self-expression that most protestors are interested in.
The Posterous experiment is over
it incredibly easy to upload photos from your phone, write a blog post
from just about any computer without futzing with the blog settings or
remembering your blog login, and to generally focus on writing instead
of the blog features (my experience with Wordpress). Also, the
built-in hosting of just about anything you upload (PDFs, images,
video, etc.) is really killer and takes away a lot of the pain of
rolling your own blog.
News as a stock ticker
No, I'm not trading mortgage foreclosures as securities. This is the
start of a little project inspired by @lisawilliams about tracking
long-term "news" events via unconventional means. News as a stock
ticker? News as a signal?
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