Read: Analytics Becomes Intelligent. Hello Insights
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Read: Hottest Christmas toys since 1960, all in one huge graphic
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Awesome...
As we prepare for the annoying onslaught of holiday marketing, it raises a smile for us to think back to the days when said holidays were called "Christmas." See how many of these most popular Christmas toys of the past half century you can remember — this astonishing info graphic goes all the way back to 1960.
Lots of toys on the list, but it's also a handy guide to gadget evolution, reaching all the way back to the Etch-a-Sketch, bringing us all the way up to last year's fave, Elmo Live. Some of us here remember far more of these than we care to admit.
Read: Cryptographic voting system developed by MIT prof has first real world trial
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Shared by Gabriel KentA neuroscientist specializing in real-time brain imagery says that the next wave of knowledge, technology and business will come from learning how humans perceive, think and act.
That's no lie.
Read: Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server
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Read: Sharkskin-Like Material Stops the Spread of Bacteria
Shared by Gabriel KentSharklet Technologies, a Florida-based biotech company, has figured out a way to capitalize on shark skin - specifically on the way parasites and bacteria can't stick to sharks. The trick is in the pattern of the skin's surface. Scientists have figured out how to print the pattern onto adhesive film, which wards off bacteria and is ideal for...
Great idea
Read: Cockroach Superpower No. 42: They Don’t Need to Pee
Shared by Gabriel KentThanks to bacteria in their guts, cockroaches are such efficient recyclers that they don't even need to urinate. Scientists are studying these gut microbes that convert waste into molecules the roaches need to survive.
Nice...
Read: Unearthed Ancient Fly Bears Bizarre 3-Eyed Horn
Shared by Gabriel KentScientists discover a very strange fly preserved in amber that has a horn protruding from its forehead that has three eyes on the end of it.
Interesting
Read: Tesla Goes 313 Miles on Single Charge
Shared by Gabriel KentTesla may have set a new record by traveling 313 miles on one battery charge.
still waiting...
Read: NASA Rocket Scientists Did ‘Frickin’ Fantastic’
Shared by Gabriel KentNASA scientists and engineers rejoice as the Ares I-X test rocket successfully launches Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, the White House ponders recommendations to scrap the rocket altogether.
Congrats on the launch ;)
Read: Humans, Shmumans: What Mars Needs Is an Armada of Robots and Blimps
Shared by Gabriel KentThe best way to study the surface of Mars is with a slew of small, cheap ground rovers guided by a fleet of airships that communicate with orbiters, according to researchers at Cal Tech.
Agreed... however, we much also send humans. It is our way and it spreads us out.
Read: A Little Lie? Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands
Shared by Gabriel KentA review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced. For example....
Digging ditches...
Read: CS researchers find way to derive laws of nature from stacks of data
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Read: Face of the giant panda sign
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Looks more like a panda skull to me...
I've just discovered a curious medical finding that can be detected on MRI brain scans called the 'face of the giant panda sign' where, quite literally, it looks like there's a panda face in the middle of the brain, indicating a specific pattern of neural damage.
The image you can see on the left is the 'face of the giant panda sign' that appeared in a brain scan of a patient with multiple sclerosis who started showing unusual sexual behaviour and is taken from a 2002 study. Click the image if you want to see the whole scan.
The pattern is apparently caused by "high signal in the tegmentum, normal signals in the red nuclei and lateral portion of the pars reticulata of the substantia nigra, and hypointensity of the superior colliculus".
It is most associated with Wilson's disease, a genetic condition which causes a toxic build-up of copper in the body, but obviously can appear in other disorders as well.
Thanks to Twitter user @sarcastic_f for alerting me to this.
It's not just pandas that appear in brain scans of course, the Virgin Mary has also been known to make an appearance.
Link to PubMed entry for MS study.
Link to brief description from Neurology.
Read: Artificial Intelligence Diagnoses Abuse
Shared by Gabriel KentA broken bone one day, a particular infection a few months later and depression the following year might not seem like part of a pattern, but to a new artificial intelligence program developed by Boston doctors, these are all signs of domestic abuse. The new software can identify abuse victims up to six years before these cases would otherwise...
Interesting application....
Read: NASA readies for pivotal test of new rocket
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NASA's brand-new rocket, the vehicle planned to launch astronauts spaceward after the space shuttles are retired, is poised to make its first-ever test flight Tuesday.
Read: Breathing Chair hides a comfortable seat inside a foam cube
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This may look like a weird, foam cube. And it is! But it's also a chair, one of the cleverest I've ever seen.
Look closely: in the middle of the cube, the triangular voids are larger. They're meticulously placed, actually, so that when you sit down it forms to you and makes the shape of a chair. When you stand up, it goes back to being a cube. So awesome.
Read: Hey NASA: Skip the moon, send humans to asteroids, Mars moons
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Agreed... let's mine!
As NASA readies the Ares 1-X test rocket, a commission of experts appointed by the president says hold everything. NASA should forget about going to the moon for now, and land humans on a nearby asteroid or comet, or one of the two moons of Mars, says the Augustine panel. The reason? It will take a whole lot less fuel to get humans back from such low-gravity destinations.
It makes sense. The moon? Been there, done that. Let's get some big honking rockets, maybe even bigger than the Saturn V, and head out into deep space. Meanwhile, the Augustine panel recommends extending the life of the shuttle for another year — until 2011 instead of putting it in mothballs on October 1, 2010 — and keeping the International Space Station aloft until 2020 instead of crashing it into the ocean in 2015.
Too bad this commission didn't exist when George W. Bush decided back in 2003 that our goal was to set up a base on the moon, and then head to Mars. Among the eight options presented by the commission, a moon landing would only be a training mission, a stepping stone to destinations beyond. A Mars mission would only happen in the distant future.
These new plans could work. Well, until another politician decides to change them.
Via USA Today (art courtesy Denise Watt, via Space Gizmo)
Read: “IP Is The New FM”
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I wrote about this years ago.... search: the future of radio is DM not am/fm
Tom Webster has some wise words at The Infinite Dial on the future of radio in the Internet age:
Here is a station in a major market. It features a morning show from Chicago; a drive-time show from Nashville. There are no local shows. This, in the very short term, is a compelling option for some broadcasters today. With such low overhead (i.e., no "talent.") it may even be throwing off some cash with a modest amount of local advertising.
Some stations are genuine entertainment sources, others merely provide "services." This particular station provides a service of convenience--rebroadcasting some national shows into the market--but that service is no longer unique in a world where "repeaters" are irrelevant. IP is the new FM. Very, very soon, every iota of programming on this station will be available everywhere, either live or on demand, from sources other than this particular station, wherever mainstream Americans want to hear it. If I have a relationship with Mancow, or Phil Hendrie, then the advertising power of that relationship rests with them, and not with the utility that happens to rebroadcast them in my local market....
When the service provided by stations like this becomes irrelevant, they are probably just going to go away. This is not radio's strength. Radio's strength has always been about shared experience, local community....Stations that master local relationships will survive. Stations that own unique, strong music positions with passionate communities will survive (that playlist, after all, is also unique content--and most stations don't do enough to capitalize on that online). 10 years ago, stations that did neither would change formats until they did. When IP is the new FM, those stations might just go dark. The market is already making that decision, for some.
Some of us have been sounding similar alarms for a long time. Meanwhile, to see some of the ways that short-sighted, risk-averse stations are ignoring actual popular music that ordinary listeners demonstrably want to hear, check out this Infinite Dial post from Larry Rosin.
Read: A Nobel Prize for Showing That Freedom Works
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Interesting...
Pundits and politicians act as if government can solve almost any problem. At the slightest hint of trouble, the ruling class reflexively assumes that knowledgeable, wise and public-spirited government regulators are capable of riding to the rescue. This certainly is the guiding philosophy of the Obama administration.
So how remarkable it is that this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in economics was shared by Elinor Ostrom, whose life's work demonstrates that politicians and bureaucrats are not nearly as good at solving problems as regular people. Ostrom, the first woman to win the prize (which she shared with Oliver Williamson of UC-Berkeley), is a political scientist at Indiana University. The selection committee said that she has "challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized. Based on numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes and groundwater basins, Ostrom concludes that the outcomes are, more often than not, better than predicted by standard theories. She observes that resource-users frequently develop sophisticated mechanisms for decision-making and rule enforcement to handle conflicts" (emphasis added).
Ostrom's work concentrates on common-pool resources (CPR) like pastures and fisheries. Policymakers assume that such situations are plagued by free-rider problems, where all individuals have a strong incentive to use the resource to the fullest and no incentive to invest in order to enhance it. Analysts across the political spectrum theorize that only bureaucrats or owners of privatized units can efficiently manage such resources.
Few scholars actually venture into the field to see what people actually do when faced with free-rider problems. Ostrom did. It turns out that free people are not as helpless as the theorists believed.
She writes in her 1990 book, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, that there is no shortage of real-world examples of "a self-governed common-property arrangement in which the rules have been devised and modified by the participants themselves and also are monitored and enforced by them."
In other words, free people work things out on their own.
Not only is government help often not needed, Ostrom says it usually screws things up because bureaucrats operate in an ivory tower ignorant of the local customs and the specific resource.
Political theorists assume away the problems of political control, but the problems are real. There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right. Unlike bureaucrats, they bear the costs of their mistakes. Moreover, as the prize committee pointed out, "Rules that are imposed from the outside or unilaterally dictated by powerful insiders have less legitimacy and are more likely to be violated."
Some of Ostrom's readers think that she is as critical of the free market as she is of government management. She writes, "(N)either the state nor the market is uniformly successful in enabling individuals to sustain long-term, productive use of natural resource systems." But what those readers miss is that the resource-management arrangements Ostrom documents are voluntary agreements that people themselves devise, monitor, and enforce. These agreements are part of the free market, even if the resource is not formally divided into privately owned units. Fundamental for advocates of freedom is not "the market" narrowly conceived, but the broader realm of consent and contract.
I was amused to see the lengths to which The New York Times went to spin Ostrom's (and Williamson's) selection in an anti-free-market direction. Reporter Louis Uchitelle wrote, "Neither Ms. Ostrom nor Mr. Williamson has argued against regulation. Quite the contrary, their work found that people in business adopt for themselves numerous forms of regulation and rules of behavior—called 'governance' in economic jargon—doing so independently of government. ..."
Please. Rules of behavior that are independent of government are not what anybody means by "regulation." Advocates of regulation say people can't devise methods of "governance" that leave politicians out of the picture, but Ostrom shows they are wrong.
We libertarians aren't against rules—we are against top-down rules imposed by out-of-touch bureaucrats. People generate better rules when the state leaves us alone.
John Stossel will soon host Stossel on the Fox Business Network. He's the author of Give Me a Break and of Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity.
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Read: Rising 2,500ft from a Gigantic Lava Plug [PICS]
Shared by Gabriel KentRising majestically out of the plains of central Burma, 2,417 feet up in the air atop an ancient, sheer-sided volcanic plug, the Buddhist monastery of Popa Taungkalat surveys the surrounding scene. An amazing example of a human construction merged organically with its natural setting
...places to go.
Read: LED eyelashes make you look futuristic, somewhat crazy
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heh...
LED eyelashes! Why do they exist? I have no idea, but they do. And hey, at least you'll know you have the most unique eyelash decor around if you hook these up. Just be careful… electricity and eyeballs don't mix. Eek.
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Read: Moon and Planets in the Morning [PIC]
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guell by Near The ParenthesisRead: Lessons from innovative advertising campaigns
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A few great ads...
Is your work useful, relevant and/or entertaining?
Jessica Greenwood, the Deputy Editor of Contagious Magazine gave a great presentation this week at Advertising Week 2009. Greenwood's presentation, entitled ‘The Future in 4D: Brands, Communities, Content & Technology’, focused on trend spotting in new media and technology. The overarching theme was to take advantage of every existing technology and keep in mind the mantra: ‘useful, relevant and/or entertaining.’
Some exceptional campaigns were selected to illustrate her message. Each solved problems in innovative ways using new technology. They were inspiring for designers, advertisers and all creatives, demonstrating that innovation and good ideas lead the way toward solutions that resonate.
Here are a few of the outstanding examples, and the lessons we have drawn from them:
Lesson 1: Entertain with high production values and vision. Be truthful. Inform.
Campaign: Johnnie Walker, The True Story
High production values recap the true story of Johnnie Walker in 6 minutes. How do you sell a brand’s story? The answer here was the simple, straightforward truth and it resonated. It is mind boggling that it could be done in a single shot.
Lesson 2: Don’t be so pushy with your identity.
Campaign: DC, Gymkhana Racing
There is no need to make your logo the most important thing in an ad. Here DC gains the cool-factor of gymkhana racing by orchestrating a crazy video and having their logo, fairly small on the racecar. By embedding with something truly interesting to their customers, without making it seem like an advertisement, DC is bestowed the ‘street-cred’ and legitimacy by association.
Lesson 3: Innovate around any problem. There are no low interest categories.
Campaign: Comparethemarket.com, Compare the Meerkat
Comparethemarket.com was the #4 insurance comparison website in the UK. Insurance comparison websites were seen as a low interest category, which is adspeak, means ‘no level of ad money thrown at the industry will make it cool’. Another problem was that the words ‘compare’ and ‘market’ were expensive keywords to buy from Google. Enter ‘Compare the Meerkat,’ a brilliant campaign that turned everything around, making Comparethemarket.com #1, putting two of its competitors out of business and making ‘meerkat’ the new expensive keyword. BBC even had to produce a warning to parents that meerkats do not make good pets as a result of the huge public reaction. A great follow through is the website where you can actually ‘compare meerkats’!
Lesson 4: Be part of your audience. Contribute things that appeal to them.
Campaign: Virgin Mobile: Vanilla Ice Says ‘Sorry’
Virgin Mobile felt its respect among young audience in Australia was slipping. They also noticed a trend in 90’s nostalgia amongst youth there and decided to capitalize it. Hiring one of the most notorious 90’s poster-boys, Vanilla Ice, and having him apologize for the bad music and bad taste he inflicted upon the world, they created a campaign that became a sensation. As a result Vanilla Ice gained great popularity and embarked on a stadium tour (for which Virgin itself provided a tongue-in-cheek apology).
Lesson 5: Create the tech you need. It’s not all about digital.
Campaign: Nike, Chalkbot
Tour de France fans write chalk messages on the race path to show support. Nike wanted to include fans from around the world in this practice. They cobbled together a machine, using many technologies, which wrote any (clean) message sent via Twitter. The machine replied with a photo of your physical message and GPS co-ordinates to allow fans to physically contribute and be a part of the event.
Lesson 6: Find new uses for technology that exists for other reasons.
Campaign: Adidas, This is Not a Jersey
An unusual use of a technology outside its intended purposes is at the heart of this Adidas campaign by TBWA\WHYBIN. Nanotechnology was used to engrave the tweeted messages and names of fans at a microscopic level on black thread. These threads were woven together to create the Jerseys worn by players of the All Blacks rugby team.
Lesson 7: Digital doesn’t mean cold. Create stories that people care about.
Campaign: Sagami condoms, Love Distance
This is a beautiful campaign for Sagami condoms in Japan, where condom advertising is more difficult to air on television. The identity of the brand was not even revealed until there was a large public interest in the campaign.
Somehow this condom ad is… beautiful!
Read: Best Use of SMS Technology Yet Includes Boobs, Of Course [Nsfw]
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Great great idea...
What you are looking at here is a) a seminaked stunning blonde in transparent lingerie, b) a great ad for the new Axe Day and Night, c) the best use of SMS technology yet, or d) all of the above.
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It is pretty simple and absolutely brilliant: To launch a new deodorant in Uruguay, the Lowe Ginkgo agency in Montevideo created an incomplete ad. The ad showed a purrty neekeed girl in a suggestive pose. It didn't, however, show any of her naughty bits. Instead, it came with blank spaces and the following text:
To complete this ad send AXE to 2345 after 9 pm.
The message made a server to send a multimedia message to your cellphone with the rest of the ad, so you could admire the complete image. The Mad Men would be proud. [Direct Daily]
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Read: How Much Is Your Online Identity Worth?
Shared by Gabriel Kentitwbennett writes "Answer a few questions about your personal Internet use, and a new tool from Symantec will calculate your net worth on the black market. You'll get three results: how much your online assets are worth, how much your online identity would sell for on the black market, and your risk of becoming a victim of identity theft. The tool is intended to raise consumer awareness about cybercrime, said Marian Merritt, Internet security advocate for Symantec. It's unlikely the average consumer would read an Internet Security Threat Report, she added, but a simply illustrated example might get the same point across. 'It's shocking how little value criminals place on your credit card,' she said."
$11.22 -- the videos were funny
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Read: Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late
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Yes! Vindication!
Early birds may get the best worms—or at least the best garage sale deals—but they also tire out more quickly than night owls do. In a new study researchers Christina Schmidt and Philippe Peigneux, both at the University of Liège in Belgium, and their colleagues first asked 16 extreme early risers and 15 extreme night owls to spend a week following their natural sleep schedule. Then subjects spent two nights in a sleep lab, where they again followed their preferred sleep patterns and underwent cognitive testing twice daily while in a functional MRI scanner.
An hour and a half after waking, early birds and night owls were equally alert and showed no difference in attention-related brain activity. But after being awake for 10 and a half hours, night owls had grown more alert, performing better on a reaction-time task requiring sustained attention and showing increased activity in brain areas linked to attention. More important, these regions included the suprachiasmatic area, which is home to the body’s circadian clock. This area sends signals to boost alertness as the pressure to sleep mounts. Unlike night owls, early risers didn’t get this late-day lift. Peigneux says faster activation of sleep pressure appears to prevent early birds from fully benefiting from the circadian signal, as evening types do.
Read: Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields
Shared by Gabriel KentScientists working on behalf of NASA built a device to simulate variable levels of gravity. It consists of a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals.
Mice! ... I meant... nice!
Read: Infrastructure FAIL: Fire Truck Sinks Through LA Street
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Quite the fail.
MSNBC Water is pretty precious in Los Angeles, but the pipes are getting old and a lot of them leak, sometimes for quite a while, undermining the pavement above. Often the road collapses under its own weight, but this time it got a little help- from a 42,000 pound fire truck. ...Read the full story on TreeHuggerRead: Video of Kurzweil’s Latest Talk at Google
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Read: Flying Transformers: Birds Gear Up for Migration
Shared by Gabriel KentBirds transform themselves in order to be able to migrate long distances. Their guts expand and contract, muscles swell and wither, metabolism shifts up and down. It's akin to a person going from powerlifter to ultra-marathoner in a couple of weeks.
Never knew this... cool.
Read: NASA’s return to the moon ‘unsustainable,’ says review
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Sad news... so what can be done to stimulate the private space industry?
The budgetary review of NASA ordered by President Obama has found that the program needs quite a bit more money than previously thought to reach its goal of getting back to the moon by 2020: $3 billion more yearly is needed, the panel of experts say, on top of NASA already contested annual budget of $18 billion. The goal of "back to the moon within the next decade" was set during the Bush administration.
The panel has thus deemed the trajectory NASA is currently following "unsustainable" and calls for a "flexible path." NASA was already hoping to reduce its operating budget by retiring its fleet of space shuttles in 2010 and — in a most radical step — ceasing operations on the International Space Station in 2015.
It's not like NASA itself is about to shutter its doors, but what happens next is anyone's guess. The review board proposed a series of alternatives along said "flexible path," including going to one of Mars's moons instead (and not by 2020), seeking more help from foreign nations, redesigning the Ares lunar rockets, or more seriously pressing the challenge of space exploration into the private sector.
News.com.au, via redOrbit, via Fast Company
Read: Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code
Shared by Gabriel Kentconsonant writes "A Delaware District Court judge has ordered Facebook to turn over ALL its source code to Leader Technologies, who allege patent infringements by Facebook. The patent in question appears to be for 'associating a piece of data with multiple categories.' Additionally, while the judge in question deems it fine to let Leader Technologies look at Facebook's source (for a patent, no less!) in its entirety for a single feature, it would be 'overboard to ask a patent holder to disclose all of their products that practice any claim of the patent-in-suit.'"
The patent in question appears to be for 'associating a piece of data with multiple categories.' ...wow ...just wow.
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Read: Perhaps the Most Impressive Computer Rig On and Outside the Planet [Space]
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Agreed.
We have seen veehee cool personal computer rigs. Seriously, really fraking amazing personal computer rigs. And then we saw a lot more of them. But this one beats them all. Because it kicks ass in space. See them in video:
Jump to 8:40 to see this impressive array of laptops and screens, upside down in the International Space Station. Or downside sideways. Or left to right to back and then up a bit. Or wherever the hell they are. The video shows some of the highlights from the seventh day—September 3—of space shuttle Discovery's mission STS-128, now docked to the ISS.
I wonder if they transmit their Wi-Fi signals using their pointy nipple antennas—because you know that in space it's cold, so your nipples get hard, and therefore conduct wireless signals a lot better than relaxed nipples. [Boing Boing]
Read: The Luxury of Protest
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amazing...
‘Maths Dreamed Universe’ Poster
Design The Luxury of Protest
“‘Maths Dreamed Universe’ is a quantitative visualisation of the manner in which elemental forms in nature order themselves. The graph – created using generative Python code – maps numbers 0 to 100,001 arranged in a logarithmic spiral. The pattern that results is frequently found in nature, as in the arrangement of floral organs and the formation of galaxies. The spiral reveals the visual relationships of elemental numbers and the aesthetic beauty of mathematical equations.
The project reflects the contemporary interest in the intersection of science and art : in particular the crossover of pure math with graphic aestheticism. The appreciation of aesthetic forms has a long tradition in art and design, but ornamentation is often derided as being little more than a fancy. But what if aesthetic appreciation was functional? – what if beauty communicates and is thus open to analytical investigation? “Maths Dreamed Universe” is the first in a series of projects that investigates meaning in aesthetics.”
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K2 really had their work cut out for them this time with some of the finer details on this poster—namely the smallest dots—measuring in at a mere 1/10 of a mm in diameter! Suffice to say Peter has certainly outdone himself again and this thought-provoking, well crafted poster (should you chose to purchase a copy) really is worth the £65 price tag. Click here to buy a copy at Stereohype.
Acknowledgements: Peter
Read: Stencil by Eddie Colla (via…
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Stencil by Eddie Colla
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Read: Pretend City- A New Children’s Museum in Irvine
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Interesting idea... happens to be just down the street.
Pretend City Children's Museum is an interconnected city designed for children ranging from infant to eight years old and their families. The city is comprised of a grocery store, farm, doctor's offices, art studio, amphitheater, beach, marina, construction site, cafe and much much more. Children will learn through role-play based on real world exhibits as they dress up as a police officer, deliver the mail, create art or put out a fire.
What I love about the museum is that all of the exhibits are connected and every exhibit is hands on. Pretend City is a unique museum and I have seen nothing quite like it. Your kids are going to love it! I can't rave about this place enough! I can guarantee that your kiddos will have an incredible time at Pretend City. For additional information head over here. I'm planning on buying a membership and trying to make a visit at least once a week. I hope you can all go out and enjoy this amazing place with your family.
Pretend City
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