31 Oct
Tornado/Dustdevil Interrupts Soccer Match
Apparently the losing team brought along a ringer.
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Archive for October, 2007
27 Oct
Ben Underwood: Echolocation
In a pillow fight, 14-year-old Ben Underwood can deliver a dead-on shot. In foosball, he’s a determined competitor. When a video game is going, his fingers fly. And on skates, he’s fearless. For most teenagers, that’s nothing remarkable. But Ben is blind.
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23 Oct
LevelHead: A 3D Spatial Memory Game
Demo video of new conceptual game ‘levelHead’ by Julian Oliver. Using tilt motions, the player moves a character through rooms that appear inside one of several cubes on a table. Each room is logically connected by a series of doors, though some doors lead nowhere (traps). The player has 2 minutes to find the exit [...]
23 Oct
Body Parts Sculpted in Bread
Gruesome body parts greet customers of a bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand. Artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom has sculpted life-like heads, feet and hands from dough in the bakery’s kitchen and exhibits them in glass cabinets in the shop. He says his edible art lures one hundred visitors a day.
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23 Oct
Creative Lightwriting
Lightwriting is hot right now…even showing up in network TV spots. This is an especially creative and energetic piece from Lichtfaktor.
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22 Oct
NanoArt
Art at a microscopic level…created thru physical or chemical processes and captured using Scanning Electron Microscopes, Atomic Force Microscopes, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopes. Some fairly compelling images here. More at www.nanoart21.org.
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20 Oct
One Of The Reason Today’s Music Sucks
There are lots of reasons that record labels use this technique…but it definitely robs music of texture and deadens our appreciation of dynamics.
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20 Oct
Renault Ballet
Very creative car commercial.
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20 Oct
Max Zbiral-Teller: Apple Juice
2005 National Hammered Dulcimer champion plays an original composition at Bard College. More about him at maxzt.com
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20 Oct
Motion-Activated Sprinkler vs. Pigeons
Birds are cool. Most of the time. But…when they won’t follow the rules, what better way to chase them off than a little non-lethal hosedown?
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