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Wow, in Safari and/or Chrome this is really nice… An experiment with CSS3 border-radius, transforms & animations I can’t wait to see the gears, mechanical illustrations and animations that folks will be creating soon all with CSS.
Gary Katz sent us this video that he did of his Apple Computer collection. One system morphs into another, starting with the Apple II. Not every system is here, but most of them are. Seeing the eMate (remember that?) reminded me I want to do a casemod of some modern hardware inside that case. The […]
David writes – A quick Apple ipad live fingerpainting demo that I streamed live from my Brooklyn studio on Monday June 21st. 2010, The model sat for 3 hours as I painted and answered questions on how I use the iPad and the Brushes app. Just thinking of creative uses for the ipad. A few […]
Although I don’t always live up to the ideal, I hold with Strunk & White when it comes to prose: “Make every word tell.” In a world as cluttered with superfluous text as beer bottles, meaningful concision is more important than ever. So I really like what artists Autobahn and Richard Wendling are doing with their #StoneCarvedTweets project. [via Neatorama]
Sci-fi and horror author extraordinaire, John Shirley (whom William Gibson dubbed “Cyberpunk Patient Zero”), sent me a link to this fascinating article about the birth of the square pixel in digital imaging. The piece starts out: Russell Kirsch says he’s sorry. More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and […]
Evan Merz’s album Black Allegheny was arranged by the behavior of many AI ‘agents’ functioning within a bit of Java-based software – In Becoming, I directly borrow Cage’s gamut and graph concepts; however, the software assembles music using concepts from the AI subfield of swarm intelligence. I place a number of agents on the graph […]
Luscious texture! The anatomically-inspired RibCage iPad case supposedly uses its “bones” to protect the screen. I’m curious what the mold looks like that’s used to form its faux-leather surface. [via Street Anatomy]
