Aram Bartholl and I have something in common: we love CAPTCHAs. Check out this video of Aram talking about his “Are You Human?” project where he places CAPTCHAs in public spaces. [via F.A.T.] More: CAPTCHA Paintings Dream CAPTCHA Javascript CAPTCHA decoder Open source resistor “CAPTCHA” learning – commenting plugin for WordPress
Graffiti Research Lab Houston writes: In this document we will give a high level overview of what is needed in order to implement “Texas Big Face.” To implement facial transfers both for sculptures and persons you need to accomplish several steps. Setting up a system that keeps the persons face stable, a system to capture […]
Artist Stephen Walter imagines London as an island in this awesome map. See the second link for a zoomable and big version. [Via typegirl]
“Tax_Ninja” is a proud parent via Reddit. My kid designed his own scientist costume for career day (including the “to do list”). I feel like I’ve succeeded as a parent. Could be a cover for MAKE or a poster for a Calvin and Hobbes movie :) – Tax_Ninja if you see this, email me – […]
Attendees at this year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival in California were greeted by Ascension, a gigantic crane that also served as a shelter from the sun. Created by the Crimson Collective, the crane is 45 feet tall and packs a 150-foot wingspan. [Via Fast Company]
NYC Resistor‘s Matt Joyce lasercut these neat unicode-compliant hex scrabble tiles. My new scrabble tile set provides game players with a fully international character set through the miracle of character set encoding standards. By using my entirely hexadecimal tile set you can deploy your scrabble words in full unicode, or simple ascii. I think however, […]
In this video, Bruce Sterling talks about his spime theory — things, in the Internet of things, tracked through their life cycles. Sterling introduced the concept five years ago. Looking back, what assumptions were incorrect? What did he overlook? One area Sterling says he underestimated was the robustness of fabbing technology. As we begin to […]
