Spike Jonze / We Were Once A Fairytale on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
20.10.09
“With gold shoes on, anything is possible”
18.10.09
“As another example, take graphic designers. Now with computers handling everything from typesetting, layout, image processing, color management to printing, what used to be done by several specialists are now combined into one person. The number of jobs one can handle in a year increased dramatically. Now designers spend more time being creative, and less time creating the final products. This may sound good, but in terms of stress and rewards, it is not. Because creativity is irrational and unpredictable, coming up with a creative solution can be highly stressful. Designers now have to come up with significantly more creative solutions…”
18.10.09
“Here we have the ice flower. The penguin suit can also shoot ice balls. Both the ice flower and penguin suit create these ice blocks that float up along the top of the water and you then use as platforms. You can also use the ice blocks to get you to areas you couldn’t otherwise reach.”
— Miyamoto: New Mario Tests Your Hard-Core Gaming Chops | GameLife | Wired.com
18.10.09
“true adventure, after all, means occasionally encountering a churlish viper or the chance monsoon before sipping a julep on the veranda of a tahitian vanilla plantation.”
— Wayne Curtis
17.10.09
“Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually “unnecessary”.”
— BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee ‘sorry’ for slashes
14.10.09
“Matthew Lieberman of U.C.L.A. is doing research into what happens in the brain when people are persuaded by an argument.”
— Op-Ed Columnist - The Young and the Neuro - NYTimes.com
14.10.09
“According to physicists, all you really need to know, mathematically, to describe what happens to an apple or the 100 billion galaxies of the universe over all time are the laws that describe how things change and a statement of where things start. The latter are the so-called boundary conditions — the apple five feet over your head, or the Big Bang.”
— Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
13.10.09
“In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus”
— Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
13.10.09
“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”
— Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
13.10.09
“accelerate protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts around an 18-mile underground racetrack and then crash them together into primordial fireballs.”
— Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
13.10.09
Atomised Passenger Aircraft Engine
The dust that you can see on the floor in the photo is an atomised passenger aircraft engine. So how did Roger Hiorns do this? He melted the engine and then dropped it through a funnel and sprayed with a fine stream of water or gas, which breaks it into granules. Here is a little more information about the process. I also still really like his Vauxhall piece.
This is by one of the finalists of this years turner prize
12.10.09
“moderation and practiced extravagance”
— Sanford Kwinter (Far From Equilibrium)
09.10.09
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