An extraordinary d3.js-based data story with interactive visualizations. "Work developed with wood researcher Rafael Passarelli to visualise the wood dimensional changes due to moisture exchange in several cities."
An extraordinary d3.js-based data story with interactive visualizations. "Work developed with wood researcher Rafael Passarelli to visualise the wood dimensional changes due to moisture exchange in several cities."
Magical childhood memories of night time car rides told in web comic animated GIF form.
What is going on with BART? In 2001, a strike was threatened, and BART employees received a 22 percent raise over the four year period from 2001 to 2005. In 2009, BART employees negotiated a contract that gave no raise for the following four years. When an agreement wasn't reached by July 1st, 2013, the BART unions held a 5 day strike immobilizing many in the Bay Area. The strike only ended because the Governor instituted a 60 day cooling off period. The major points of contention for the unions are pay raises, reduced employee contribution to pensions, medical benefits and safety.
An excellent library of typographical reading curated by David Reinfurt for his Princeton University Typography class.
A priceless collection of modernist journals (the likes of Wyndham Lewis' BLAST) available as PDFs.
A rather awesome, and excellently designed, collection of posts on music and design with an emphasis on Japan.
AIGA celebrates 100 years of design that connects, informs, assists, delights and influences with an experience that does all five.
The Letterform Archive collects inspirational analog artifacts to digitize in high fidelity, for all who love letters. Includes a very impressive collection of WA Dwiggins specimens.
Wild late 80s "sunshine psychedelia and dark alien soundtracks" from artist Alexander Ross.
Artist, geometer, educator, Reynolds displays an incredible expertise in geometric systems in his drawings.
An inspirational collection of photographs of swimming holes in this great state.
Early 1970s magazine documenting the radical shift as low-cost portable video equipment became available to artists and other potential videomakers.
Lists of books from designers to inspire, to provide direction, to educate.
This visualization maps 1 million WWI Royal Navy locations transcribed by the citizen scientists of Old Weather.
Not-made-for-kids videos for kids. Watched & collected by Rion Nakaya with her 2 & 5 year olds
Explore the BBC sound of the 1960s with our 4 demos of Radiophonic equipment, built with the new Web Audio API standard. Each demo comes with commented code, so you can learn how to build your own audio applications.
UK artist Lee Gamble, part of the London/ Birmingham collective CYRK, speaks about 11 of his favourite 90s jungle tracks.
Chris Marker's TV series on Greece: "Searching for the western cultural foundations in the ancient Greece, the 13 episodes of this TV mini-series explore the lost resonances of thirteen words, ideas that function today in a problematic relation both with their linguistic root as well as in their customary role and exercise"
James Bridle introduces his project for A Room In London: "an imaginary airship piloted by a lost, mad AI autopilot. The ship is drifting because the pilot is mad or the pilot is mad because the ship is drifting; it doesn’t really matter."
UbuWeb presents the recordings of a U.K. record label which existed from 1975 to 1978. It was created and run by Brian Eno, who also produced the ten albums issued in the series. Much of the material can be regarded as 20th century classical music. The label provided a venue for experimental music, and its association with Eno gave increased public exposure to its composers and musicians.
Referenced by mrdoob as an early inspiration for creating Three.js
"a center for contemporary art in Southeast Portland, Oregon. It is led by a desire to support emerging and under-acknowledged contemporary artists, propose new modes of production, and stimulate the ongoing public discourse around art." Beautifully understated design featuring Adobe Caslon.
Engaging Long Scroll site dedicated to stories and artifacts of Baseball. Indebted to Mr. Ian Coyle of Edits Quarterly.
A most awesome 3D HTML5 MIDI keyboard visualizer with a lode of Bach, Chopin, Debussy to start and the ability to upload yr own file.
designs for Tony Stark's 3D interfaces in layouts and videos.
Bidoun Magazine-curated section of the indomitable UbuWeb: "filling a gaping hole in the arts and culture coverage of the Middle East and its Diaspora"
Weekly picks for books that "that incorporate elements of magic, fantasy or the surreal ... cross conventional boundary lines of genre, style and historical period." Always happy to find the matrix that includes Rushdie, Rabelais, Helprin, Delany, &c.
This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer.
The blog of James Bridle, he of New Aesthetics fame: literature, technology and book futurism, since 2006.
Illustrator and designer, his Fliers are of particular interest.
Mark Bittman's 25 favorite recipes from 15 years and 1000 recipes.
"redefines our notions of underwater life and presents a world of alarming sophisticated communication"
A labyrinthine hypertext accompaniment to a book. Swallow and be swallowed.
Brazen Bicycles profile of my CBT Italia Castro.
Photographs of studio visits with artists and designers. Mostly Bay Area based.
The 1906 Aerial Photographs of George R. Lawrence. Cameras on kites at Folsom and Sixth in 1906. Wow.
Audio of Cardiff's sound walk The Missing Voice (1999), which I experienced that year in London.
Short narratives in film & photography. Shot and presented beautifully, excellent example of the longscroll format.
"Thought-provoking design content." Ian Coyle, Duane King and collaborators present design in an inventive interaction experience.
From Dusted Magazine's Listed feature: Cheer Accident has some killer selections.
Heard "He Taught Non Violence" on KALX yesterday, a tribute to MLK Jr: entranced by the vocal harmonies and jangled guitars.
Sherman Hemsley (a.k.a. George Jefferson) was apparently obsessed with Gong and progressive rock to the tune of a flying-teapot-themed room in his LA pad.
Lowfi 3d animation artist. Creator of "The External World" and author of an entertaining blog.
Images of famous, stylish, nerdy men with links to approximations of the clothes they're wearing.
Hyper-Rainforest is a monumental sound piece, both in duration and in how the sounds are projected to the Concert Hall. All music in this performance stems from field recordings—but it does not simulate the natural reality of the original locations. Instead, the work creates a sonic hyper-reality, a virtual world of sound and music that goes beyond a trip to a rainforest.
"Artificial intelligences will use deep-structure pattern-recognition, predictive modeling, and information theory to ensure each new trance state is popular enough to get upvoted on the hottest content-ranking platforms. "
An essay on a haunted house/mansion in New Orleans with accompanying ghostly photographs.
"first overview of the lifework of Angus MacLise, an American artist, poet, percussionist, and composer active in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and Kathmandu from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. Best known as the original drummer of the Velvet Underground, MacLise’s lifework included music, calligraphy, performance art, poetry, drawings, plays, and limited edition artist’s books."
Porteur bicycles used by Parisian newspaper delivery men. They piled 100 pounds of papers on the big front racks, many commissioned custom built porteur bikes from Alex Singer, Goeland or other great constructeurs.
Discussing Colonial Africa in 2010 via digging for African pop records in various genres and countries.
I'm unclear as to why all of Tarkovsky's films are available for "free" viewing, but this is an opportunity to catch glimpses of beauty and spend a few hours haunted by the challenges of Man.
"Writer, chef, culinary traveler (and vocal critic of vegetarianism) Anthony Bourdain squared off on this topic on Q this morning with author and vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer."
A tumblog using a map-based naviagtion relating the author's travel experiences in Ireland.
"Making Noise" A talk by Ken Perlin on the creation his Perlin Noise algorithm.
Adam Miller and yours truly, making the news in San Francisco.
"an experiment in sustainable publication. We print and bind books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire, books that both respond to the conversation of the moment and can endure." In Berkeley, Portland, Vancouver and Chicago.
"a transcription of Harrell Fletcher's invaluable transcription of Paul Thek's "teaching notes," contained in Fletcher's booklet Thek's Teaching Notes." Sample questions: What are your requirements in a friend? Lover? Mate? Tell us about the most exciting thing you ever saw, did. How do you know that you are happy, sad, nervous, bored? What does this school need? This room? You? This city? This country? What is abstraction?
Molly Haskell in discussing Rohmer's Clair's Knee: "In fact, in Rohmer’s universe, women are instruments of men’s improvement, in the sense that they shake them up, force them to confront prejudices[...] Attraction enlarges and expands us, takes us out of our comfort zone and into the unknown, thanks to someone who surprises our preconceptions, forces us to radically readjust categories and criteria. An intellectual may be attracted to a girl with whom he can’t discuss Pascal or Dostoyevsky; that does not make her an object of ridicule. Possibly she will be fresher and more interesting, less chock-full of ready-made formulations, than he is. But on some level, she must be able to account for herself, leave a verbal signature."
Free Music Archive post about Indonesian experimental musicians Rully Shabara, a frontman and vocalist of Zoo, a math-rock/experimental band based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Wukir Suryadi, traditional musician and instrument builder.
Contemporary/strange writer with a wonderful URL.
"A literature blog that isn’t always about literature," edited and presided over by Blake Butler.
"Our Rucksack, made from stout closely woven waxed twill, is a modern interpretation of the traditional canoe pack. With a slim profile, durable construction, and sensible features Archival Rucksacks are constructed from 22 ounce heavy weight waxed cotton twill, Horween Chromexcel leather, solid brass hardware, and military-grade cotton webbing."
A New Arrivals list from Philadelphia's Brickbat Books June 2010. I feel this should be my Autumn syllabus: Bolano, George Saunders, Flann O'Brien, Gaddis, Sebald...
Michael O'Hare, professor of public policy at Berkeley welcomes back his students: "you can be better than my generation. Take back your state for your kids and start the contract again. There are lots of places you can start, for example, building a transportation system that won’t enslave you for two decades as their chauffeur, instead of raising fares and cutting routes in a deadly helix of mediocrity. Lots. Get to work. See you in class!"
My neighbor Caitlin's business: "We are a partnership of two women who love to garden and want to be immersed in the dirt of our food system"
Super strange blog(?) with hundreds of picutres of an interestingly-haired gentleman of a guru- or musician-nature.
"a project in contemporary generative print design and art. Its final products will be a book that presents programmed images by various artists. Each print in process will be calculated individually – which makes every single book unique." Site layout is nicely done, here.
Beautiful bicycles from New York City.
On Formless Content, Definitive Content and designing with the options of printed matter or iPad, depending on content and disposability.
"Cheerful software, above all, honors the truth about humanity: Humans are not rational beings."
On redesigning e-readers or how we read digital text. Of note:
"Show me the overlap of 10,000 readers' highlighted passages in a digital book. This is our ‘Cliff Notes.’ We don’t need Derek Sivers' brilliant summaries[14] anymore (sorry Derek!) — we’re collectively summarizing for each other as we read and mark our digital copies.
Show me a heat map of passages — ‘hottest’ to ‘coldest’. Which chapters in this Obama biography should I absolutely not miss?(Fig 7)
Let Stefan Sagmeister publicly share the passages he’s highlighted in the new Murakami Haruki novel. This is something I want to see. And I bet you do, too.
When I’m considering buying a book, show me how far the average reader gets. Do most readers get through the whole novel or give up halfway? How many notes do they take? How many passages do they highlight?"
iPhone app for bicyclists to "record location, heading, speed, altitude, accelerometer, sound level, trip duration and distance to storage on the device"
Haus-Rucker-Co (House-Mover Company) Viennese architectural and design group founded in 1967 specializing in ‘disposable architecture’, pneumatic structures, air-mattresses, and life-support systems.
"A virtual museum dedicated to Hetchins bicycles of historic interest."
Record label responsible for Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces and recent Whitefield Brothers releases
Recipe for the refreshing Pimm's Cup beverage.
SF Restaurant website. Inventive use of JavaScript page scrolling to show/hide the various content blocks. Who designed this?
Clearing house for David Wilson, Bay Area-based artist and curator of Summer 2010 BAMPFA L@TE Friday night programs in Berkeley.
Davies disscusing his concept of Barely Games which leads into the topic of Pretending Apps.
Conspicuous consumption in the form of a delicious or ffffound for shopping.
"I served you faithfully for thirty-two years and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. "