The Higgs boson and the Enchantment Under the Sea dance orig. from Oct 21, 2009 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here . Tags: post updates
I would like to thank this week's RSS sponsor, The Masters of Professional Studies in Branding at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. This is a new graduate degree program that will begin in fall 2010 focused on the study of "the art and science of branding". More details about the program are available here and here . They are having an open house tomorrow (that's Saturday) at SVC in Chelsea...
From 1971, a critique of Sesame Street from The Atlantic . Nonetheless, and in spite of all its successes, I feel very strongly that Sesame Street has aimed too low, has misunderstood the problem it is trying to cure, and will be a disappointment in the long run. I also feel that it has misunderstood the nature and underestimated the opportunities of its chief subject, the three R's, and its medium,...
There was a short CG special effects sequence in Star Wars (the Death Star explanation at the Rebel briefing); here's how it was made . Tags: movies Star Wars video
The Denver Post followed high school graduate Ian Fischer as he enlisted in the Army, went through training, left for Iraq, and returned home; the photos tell quite a story . Tags: photography
That's not precisely true, but my book reading is down to a trickle of what it used to be. Most of my reading happens online for kottke.org and when I'm through with all that, the last thing I want to do is tuck into a book, no matter how good it is. But what I really haven't been doing is talking about the books I've read or am interested in reading if I had the time. Oh, there have been a few mentioned...
Researchers have been able to create new human senses of a sort ...and to cross-pollinate two different senses in order to, for example, see with your tongue. With Arnoldussen behind me carrying the laptop, I walked around the Wicab offices. I managed to avoid most walls and desks, scanning my head from side to side slowly to give myself a wider field of view, like radar. Thinking back on it, I don't...
Temporarily recreating the Berlin Wall orig. from Nov 05, 2009 Cartoon girls I wanna nail orig. from Feb 07, 2008 The evolution of skateboarding orig. from Nov 04, 2009 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here . Tags: post updates
Timelapse video of a trip from Denver to Singapore and back again . I made a time lapse video of a weekend trip I did to singapore by hanging a point and shoot around my neck, taking a snapshot every couple minutes/hours. Tags: timelapse travel video
This did unsurprisingly well when I posted it to Twitter , so I've archived it here for posterity. This is Carrie Fischer and her stunt double taking a nap under the Tatooine suns during the filming of Jedi. Tags: photography Star Wars
Berliners! Artist Martin Butler is trying to find 33,000 people to recreate the Berlin Wall for the 20th anniversary of the Wall's fall. The idea is to form on the 9th of november 2009 -- the night the Wall fell 20 years ago -- a line of people that will recreate the Berlin Wall with their physical presence, marking the path where the wall once stood. Thousands of people will form a human chain that...