This Russian forum has some really neat photos of a couple interesting PC case mods – the first is a metal milk tin. The mod adds a clear window, cow print fur and stuffed cow which looks out. The second is a metal waste paper basket. Thanks Karel! Link.
The Box Doodle Project asks its participants to cut up a cardboard box, doodle on it, turn it into a work of art, take a photo and post it to a collective gallery. the rules are quite simple: rearrange a box to make any kind of figure or object. make the most of least. [via] Link. Here’s my version, made from an iPod box.
I’ll go and check this out this weekend! Non-fiction books checked out and returned at the Seattle Central Library amount to approximately 37000 items per day. From now on, the circulation of books will float in color-coded streams across six big plasma screens located on a glass wall behind the librarians’ main information desk. Link.
The Green Building is humming, and not just from activities in its labs and offices and classrooms. Thanks to Carrie Bodle (SM Visual Studies 2005), Building 54 has been turned into a giant speaker, resonating with sounds from the upper level of the Earth’s atmosphere. Every day, through Friday, Sept. 16, from 12-1 p.m., “Sonification / Listening Up,” a large-scale sound installation using 35 speakers installed on the south facade of the building, will broadcast an abstract sound collage generated from research data collected in the ionosphere. Link.
Pretty much all the pieces are there. The circuit has been designed, the programming is nigh complete and all that is left is building the casing, minor tweaks here and there, and finally assembly. Even though the Silver face did take a while to come in we are still on a good time table. The prototype will be in dip packaging the final Belt Buckles will be printed for sip packaging. Photo here and more about the project here.
Very fun processing app – Drawing toy that produces parameterized organisms. Procedural animation allows the organisms to swim around in a virtual fluid environment interacting with each other. The project now interprets strokes made from a tablet pen. When a stroke is completed (or closed into a loop) it manifests an organism based on stroke length, speed, and pressure. While not exactly gesture recognition, it was a quick and dirty solution to what otherwise might have been a nightmare to develop (gesture recognition). [via] Link.
Here’s Jason Kronenwald’s website- He’s into some old master bubblegum painting! He doesn’t like to chew his own gum, but instead has an army of gum chewers. He has explored a rainbow of gum in all sorts of sizes, flavors, and colors. He painstakingly creates his paintings on plywood using no artificial colors or flavors. (Previous gum art)… [via] Link.
