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Unable to complete another painting, he surrendered to the realization that he was truly…madly…deeply in love—with plywood.
I couldn’t write snarky captions like the one above all day long to save my life. I hate to admit it but I am completely hooked on the Unhappy Hipsters website (you can skip their twitter feed, little more than a RSS), which riffs on the absurdity of uber-modern spaces. It’s hard to describe the humor but it’s one part design school and another Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Sprinkle some yuppie loving mirror-rage over the top and you have the recipe.
Sure, this was all over the interwebs a few weeks ago but it has taken me time to re-post because I needed to process it a bit. There are some obvious limitations, first of which being the large scale required in order to make this effective, secondly the battery life in order to make it feasible for long enough to create discernible formations, and third, environmental variables such as wind complicate things. Computing power (insert cloud pun here) wouldn’t really be an issue since the signals would include not much more than: x/y/z coordinates, light intensity/color, battery life, and motor strength/speed.
http://www.vimeo.com/9681874So what about the Flyfire project bothers me? It’s the limitations, at least in the near future, for this display system to be used for anything other than entertainment purposes. Each LED enabled helicopter acting as an independent pixel is remarkable, although it requires precision and synchronization. I did see the perfect application in the next 3-5 years; fireworks which require little precision and can be viewed at a distance which allows the helicopters to be much larger in size which affords greater control. Still a sweet little concept project from SENSEable City Laboratory, as seen on various sites including Giz and Cpluv.
How do I find myself up past 1am on a Thursday night not due to going out and drinking like a fish? Wrapping up loose ends at the soon-to-be-former job is taking forever, and I don’t want to be that guy that leaves everyone else in the lurch. I hated that guy when it happened to me. .Gif via dvdp
Celebrities can be morons too. What I find to be remarkable is that in this case it transcends generations and genres. I look forward to seeing more of this tomfoolery on Twitter in the future. Via TheDailyWhat.
The Mirror Man of Los Angeles doesn’t need to be an exceptional street performer. With an outfit like this he could be limited to mediocre robot dancing abilities and be just fine. In a suit made up of hundreds of mirrors covering from head to toe you don’t need much more. Since it’s LA I would assume that there are plenty of people putting together knock-off versions of the costume at the moment, most looking more like a ghetto disco ball at best. This guy is either a glazer or lives behind a frame shop. Via thecoolist
No idea how I stumbled on this one, but Barack Obama Looks At Awesome Things is very real. And very rad use of time/adobe skills. Best use of photoshop since Animals With Lightsabres.
About time someone mapped this out in order to explain it to the masses. Unfortunately the details are lost with a digital representation of the chart in question. Purchase one of the 200 print run limited edition here for $45. Via InformationIsBeautiful.
I love how someone mashed these two up. As such I wish I could cite it properly, having come from a random Tumblr site. What makes it wickedly effective is how well the logos scale to each package–it’s seamless enough to make most people do a double take. Anti-Pop Art, anyone?
Headed home sick for the afternoon…..so tired I spelled ‘confusion’ wrong.