Hi,
Lets start with Art Time: “Waltz of the Polypeptides” is an eighty-foot long, ten-foot high sculpture by Mara Haseltine that was recently installed at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (they do research into cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics and bioinformatics) over in New York. The sculpture depicts a subcellular protein factory called a ribosome caught in the act of producing the BLyS protein, which stimulates the production of infection-fighting antibodies in the body… (I am not making this up). The sculpture is comprised of seven structures, each of which is derived from that of the actual biological forms, observed using scanning electron microscopy, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and X-ray crystallography. Sod all that it’s just really pretty.
http://www.calamara.com/waltz.html
I have been rather taken by the “Steampunk” movement. Have a look at this page from datamancer as an opener.
“The Nagy Magical-Movable-Type Pixello-Dynamotronic Computational Engine
Celebrate the historical heritage of the modern Personal Computer..the way it should have been. While charming in its reticence, the buzzing beige rectangle under a desk hardly seems a fitting aesthetic legacy for what is inarguably the most important invention of the last 100 years. With a little creative anachronism, this project aims to retrocentrically create a false historical heritage for the modern computer.”
http://www.datamancer.net/projects/engine/engine.htm and
the Telecalculograph
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/11/telecalculograp.html and
It’s hard to tell what’s going on here, it appears to be a typewriter crossed with a laptop + a morse code keypad of sorts, but one thing is for sure, it’s awesome and would be realy quite comfortable in Terry Gilliam’s Brazill
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/portable_typewr.html
Those of us who love Pandora (see my rant at notdeadyet) are so going to enjoy Musicovery, an “interactive webRadio.” Here’s the deal: pick a main genre, next a mood (somewhere between bouncy to bleak). The program then gives a visual representation of your musical selections all looped together pick a bubble, it’s a weird (but fun) way to find music that you wouldn’t necessarily have thought of. Best of all. No registration crap just start listening.
http://www.musicovery.com/
Flash game time. In Asteroid’s Revenge, you play get to play the asteroid who has watched many of your kin destroyed by heartless vector-art spaceships. You are determined to avoid their fate by actively attacking the spaceships.
http://www.flashninjaclan.com/games.php?ID=27
Rings is a free web-based Flash game. Imagine a cross between Towers of Hanoi and Tetris. Your goal is to make towers of rings in which each ring is smaller than the one below. Once you make a complete tower, which can be between two and four rings with the smallest yellow ring on top, the tower is cleared and your are awarded points based on the number of rings. You have six spots upon which you can build towers, and new rings constantly appear in the center spot. That’s the Tetris component. If a new ring doesn’t have an empty space or a larger ring to land on, you lose. I know it doesn’t sound to promising but it’s like Tetris, it starts out fairly easy but gets faster and more challenging quickly. If you don’t react quick you’re toast. There are no extra lives.
Now let’s face it the phone has to be a much bigger “Impediment” than this little missive. So here is a “Blame” item from Jools
“http://www.sorrygottago.com/
You just go click click click click click click click click, it’s real easy man.
Jools with love”
Oh Phil and Roger, loved the entries but yes (believe it or not) there is an obscurity filter and it kicked in.
And lastly some of the highlights from over at http://notdeadyet.com.au/duggup
Guitars, rants about WebRadio, Podcasts and other interesting stuff, stroll over and have a rummage.
As usual have a good one
thatch
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