Charles Strossโ excellent new novel, Rule 34 (Ace Books), is a futuristic police procedural set in a near-future Edinburgh, in which 3D printing has become boringly ubiquitous. You can buy safe, prepackaged 3D printers at the local housewares shop, and theyโre handy for whipping up generic replacement parts for broken appliances (at one point a […]
Trendland featured a next-level collaboration that was created for the June 2011 issue of Dazed and Confused. Photographer Richard Burbridge, Italian artist Maurizio Anzeri and stylist Robbie Spencer created these string art portraits that combine black and white photography and intricate string work to make the images vibrant, 3D pieces. I am really digging this […]
New York City is often analogized as a “concrete jungle.” For me that might be very fitting, as I often find myself hunting makers, But unlike a machete-wielding jungle-clearing Amazonian, my approach usually involves asking questions such as “What does this do?” and “How’d you make that?” So earlier this week, I was out for a lunchtime stroll when I spotted this guy Tucker on his bike.
It was probably a bad idea to read food blogs while waiting for dinner. It was an even worse idea to read this post from Heather’s Dish about caramelized peanut butter banana quesadillas. I’m now officially starving!
Now in its seventh year, the BIF Summit has earned it reputation as โone of the top 7 places to watch great minds in actionโ (according to Mashable). The summit provides participants with the space to be curious and crazy, get inspired, and collide with unusual collaborators. A shoe designer learns innovation processes from a car designer. A police officer teaches a business guru about transforming industries.
Data-Crunching Program Guides Santa Cruz Police Before a Crime @ NYTimes.com… …the presence of the police officers in the garage that Friday afternoon in July was anything but ordinary: They were directed to the parking structure by a computer program that had predicted that car burglaries were especially likely there that day. The program is […]
Yesterday I posted about this lovely paint-by-number mural painted in a child’s nursery. Ohdeedoh has a great interview with another paint-by-number mural artist, Curtis Robertson. He covered most of a room with an intricate paint-by-number design for his niece’s son’s bedroom. The in-progress pictures show just how much detail work goes in to a project […]
