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creepy and beautiful bento lunch art

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:23:56 -0700

Pink Tentacle (one of my favorite blogs) has a post on awesome bento lunches done in the style of various album covers.

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/04/bento-lunches-decorated-as-album-covers/

I love this one of Aphex Twin.

And here's an insane set of bentos on flickr by Sakurako Kitsa.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitsa_sakurako/sets/72157600857507834/

This one is Ichi the Killer (a movie by Takashi Miike). That's cigarette smoke coming out the sides of his slit cheeks, and his tongue next to him.

More bento porn on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/396900@N24/pool/

song charts

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:21:15 -0700

One of the best things I've seen in a while... a flickr pool of data visualizations for song lyrics. Not all winners, but it's so damn clever.

pushingit by choctaw_ridge on flickr

Song chart pool on flickr

happy valentine's day

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:04:30 -0800

david lynch device dissonance

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:42:48 -0800

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. God I love David Lynch.

converging digital and architectural

Sun, 6 Jan 2008 09:59:40 -0800

(via beyond the beyond) Christopher Baker did a beautiful installation in Copenhagen, where viewers send SMS messages to a building and their questions and answers become part of the building and the sonic environment.

Urban Echo from Christopher Baker on Vimeo.

It does much more than simply projecting onto a large surface. The digital information interacts with the architectural features of the building, going around windows, with its own physics and gravity. Lately I've been thinking about the coming convergence of the digital and physical worlds (augmented reality, an internet of things, unmediated user interfaces). It's already starting to happen.

This installation is a great example of how it would feel to have digital data truly integrated with the environment, as opposed to being a self-contained projection or veneer. The next step would be enabling the data to change the physical structure...

I live for the day when Bladerunner is outdated, as long as we can unplug whenever we want to.

More from Christopher Baker

captain fantastic 2008 style

Sat, 5 Jan 2008 08:57:42 -0800

Last year we were in Brooklyn for New Year's, but this year we resumed our tradition of heading up to Vancouver on New Year's Eve, staying at the Sylvia Hotel, and diving into English Bay with a few hundred other silly people at the Vancouver Polar Bear swim.

Ed, not deterred by crutches, thought this might be the time to don the Captain Fantastic outfit in Canada. Waxy Photography (John Goldsmith) caught him as he emerged from the salty 44 degree water...

(c) Waxy Photography

And another paparazzo caught him on video:

I was the sidekick in pink.

More amazing photos from Waxy
Our New Year 2008 photos
Vancouver Polar Bear Swim pool at flickr

i love log

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:43:49 -0800

It's becoming a tradition, the posting of the yule log.

More info: WPIX Yule Log.

Stay warm!

holiday card round up

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:58:23 -0800

I'm working on our annual "holiday" card, which will be technically late for Christmas, but still within reason for the holidays in general (I have till Chinese New Year, right?). I try to come up with something amusing each year, some are better than others. Here are some from the last few years.

JOY - 2003

We got our fake pink xmas tree and wanted to celebrate. Our kitty was not pleased.

Christmas merry - 2004

This card was inspired by a trip to visit the studio of Werner Nekes, who has an extensive collection of illusions, magic lanterns, and artifacts from the evolution of animation and film.

His book Eyes, Lies, and Illusions: Masters of Deception is wonderful.

(flipped)

And inside... (this idea is stolen from Werner Nekes business card)

The hint is to tilt the card away from you and close one eye. There are two messages.*

Santa safety sard - 2005

(you can see a bigger version here)

Sears wishbook - 2006

I actually got the kitchen set I'm fawning over when I was a little girl. I had a great time playing with the plastic groceries.

And if you want to see much better designs...

Johnson Banks Design holiday cards
Soviet era aerospace holiday cards

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pay toilets on planes?

Sat, 8 Dec 2007 07:24:47 -0800

I got another bite on one of my flickr photos! Aviation.com is using this one on its "Top 10 Hidden Airline Fees" article. (click through to #1)

fasching in k�ln audio recording

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:14:44 -0800

We weren't planning on it, but we stumbled onto Fasching at the K�ln Dom. People from all over the world pilgrimage to the Cologne Cathedral for the start of Carnival at 11:11am on November 11. I recorded some audio on my Edirol/Roland stereo digital recorder. It's a good sound recording, but you'd never know it because it's compressed and uploaded to Youtube. (Whatever happened to high-fidelity?)

The middle of November might seem like an odd time to travel to Germany--more than one person has said so. The weather is cold, but not so cold to snow. The Winter Markets that Americans find so adorable compared to the crap we're served in the local mall aren't open yet. Many of the tourist attractions are closed for the season. So why go in the middle of November? Well, I like travelling when nobody else wants to. The lines are shorter at the airport. The locals have forgiven the trespasses of summer tourists and so are friendlier. These are all good reasons, but of course the real reason we picked November for travel was because it just worked out that way with our schedules.

Now, however, we can tell people we travelled to Germany in the middle of Novemeber so we could participate in Fasching.