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January 29, 2015 – 3:52 pm
Kowloon Walled City
November 6, 2014 – 10:08 am
A large, semi-sovereign, largely ungoverned urban enclave inside of Hon Kong, Kowloon Walled City was one of the most densely populated plots of land on the planet. Largely build in an ad-hoc, accretive manner over the years before it was finally torn down in 1994. Luckily for those of us who weren’t able to visit before it was destroyed, a group of Japanese researchers scoured the place, creating beautiful dense maps and diagrams of the city published in a book several years later, as well as enough detail to produce a 3D model of the city.
The images speak for themselves:
Stereographic Lampshades
November 2, 2014 – 7:25 pm
3d print a lampshade that will project an arbitrary pattern!
The Empathic Civilisation
September 15, 2014 – 4:43 pm
Mirror neurons are just the beginning of a whole range of research going on in neuropsychology and brain research and in child development that suggests that we are actually soft-wired not for aggression and violence and self interest and utilitarianism that we are actually soft-wired for sociability ‘attachment’ as John Bowlby might have said affection, companionship, and that the first drive is the drive to actually ‘belong’. It’s an empathic drive.
Empathy is the invisible hand. Empathy is what allows us to stretch our sensibility with another so that we can cohere in larger social units. To empathize is to civilize, to civilize is to empathize.
Wood Furniture Embedded with Glass Rivers and Lakes
July 7, 2014 – 3:42 pm
My God, I want these so badly. Beautiful.
Table Topography: Wood Furniture Embedded with Glass Rivers and Lakes by Greg Klassen.
The pieces are completed with the addition of hand-cut glass pieces that appear to meander through the middle of each table. You can see much more of work here, and several tables are available through his shop.
Found in Translation
May 14, 2014 – 8:43 am
100 Illustrations of words that aren’t found in the English Language.
Eye In Tuna Care
April 20, 2014 – 5:21 pm
Eye in Tuna Care is a work of shameless plagiarism; filmmaker John Walter Lustig stole the idea from a character in a dream.
NYC CitiBike Usage Time Lapse
April 18, 2014 – 2:50 pm
I love the swarms around 8am and 5pm, though it’s fascinating that people prefer to take the bikes home from work, rather than to work. A fascinating intersection of urban life, technology and art.
Sierpinski Triangle
March 20, 2014 – 5:13 pm
If you are going to read one essay about the Sierpinski Triangle, it really ought to be this one.
From what I can tell, one of the settings used to deal with division by 0 is the so-called Riemann sphere, which is where we take a space shuttle and use it to fly over and drop a cow on top of a biodome, and then have the cow indiscriminately fire laser beams at the grass inside and around the biodome. That’s my intuitive understanding of it anyway.
Yeah, you know you wanna get all up in this gasket.
Via:Hacker News
SyncroKinetic – Joe Pentland
March 6, 2014 – 12:16 pm
Permanent installation in the atrium of the Connecticut Department of Public Health Laboratory, Rock Hill CT.
SyncroKinetic by Joe Pentland
Werner Herzog Reads Where’s Waldo
November 20, 2013 – 2:07 pm
There seems to be a theme today…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWh6PMi9Ek&w=640]Finding Waldo With Science
November 20, 2013 – 1:59 pm
Ben Blatt brought some serious science to bear on one of the most altering and illuminating questions of our time: Where is Waldo? His findings have revolutionized the search for our furtive little friend.
It may not be immediately clear from looking at this map, but my hunch that there’s a better way to hunt was right. There isn’t one corner of the page where Waldo is always hiding; readers would have already noticed if his patterns were so obvious. What we do see, as highlighted in the map below, is that 53 percent of the time Waldo is hiding within one of two 1.5-inch tall bands, one starting three inches from the bottom of the page and another one starting seven inches from the bottom, stretching across the spread.
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