Steven Frank on the App Store

Steven Frank on the App Store:
“The iPhone/iPod Touch, being available for both Mac and Windows, has a single source of software in the app store. That Mac AND Windows thing is key. The app store is not just a software market for Mac users. This is why it blows the minds of indie Mac [...]

Cabinetry and Locksmithing

A truly thought-provoking conceptual artist:

Lucas Murgida at 667 Shotwell from Chris Sollars.
More at lucasmurgida.com.
(Via @frauenfelder.)

Dolphins with new toys

Dolphins blowing rings:

(Via

These modern times

We are now officially living in what once was science fiction:
Batteries built by viruses – Boing Boing
Interesting times, indeed.

A Deep Thinker

“Mary Elizabeth’s law: There are two kinds of food — those that can be improved with bacon, and those that can be improved with chocolate.
Mary Elizabeth’s paradox: And yet, bacon and chocolate do not mix.
Mary Elizabeth’s addendum: But butter goes with everything.”
Gimme Shelter: Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Via @tigoe)

Dream Office

“… a video by Internet pioneer Howard Rheingold, who’s a writer, artist, and futurist. The video is a guided tour of his ‘dream office,’ the space behind his house where he does his writing, thinking, painting, and sculpture.”

Howard’s Dream Office

(Via MAKE: Blog.)

Urban Typography

More things which can be done with Processing:
Urban Typography
Urbanized Typeface PV (Complete ver) from yang02 on Vimeo.

(Via Beyond the Beyond.)

Epilepsy is dancing

A haunting music video for a song by Antony and the Johnsons, who are completely new to me:

Larger version at Pitchfork: TV
(Via boingboing.)

A more traditional virtual reality

Sometimes there’s no substitute for large piles of atoms:

(Via The Presurfer.)

Water irony

John Thackara’s Designer Tweets from America:
“Obama’s new energy secretary, Steven Chu, has just stated that ‘we’relooking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California’.Immediately following our workshop, a state-wide water state of emergencyis declared.
http://www.vimeo.com/3195518
http://www.flickr.com/gp/92494461@N00/6161Hi
Chu’s warning about ‘no more federal water’ contains an irony: The CentralValley Irrigation Project, which enabled Caifornia’s agriculture to [...]