My good friend Emily Lacy will be spending December and January in residence at the LACMA for her project, Temples of the Mind. Over the two month run she’ll be recording an album, making films and continually performing four days a week in the Pavilion for Japanese Art. Go Emily go!
Sounds awful, but makes up for it with sheer WTF-brilliance
A hybrid of a remote controlled car & mechanical hand generates random music.
The car is controlled by an altered remote, which is triggered by 2 desk fans. When the fans are directed at the remote, contacts are blown together and the circuit is completed, sending the car up and down the keyboard in random directions.
via Rhizome.org
Window on the body: CT scans become art
Radiologist Kai-hung Fung makes beautiful and informative art from the CT (computed tomography) scans of his patients, digitally manipulating them to look more appealing. His image of the inside of our sinuses won the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. See this and some of his more recent works in our gallery
YouTube recently launched support for 1080p videos (!) and if you need a demonstration of how awesome it is, here is the Muppets doing a version of Bohemian Rhapsody in FULL HD. Whoa.
Oh but watch it at the YouTube page because I don’t think you can see the HD version in the embed.
This is a really memorable old Sesame Street segment for me, but check the music and sound! Love the use of analog synthesizers to take us through the three distinct phases of the narrative. Trippy journey into nature -> masked beekeeper smokes out the alien bee’s nest -> celebratory, yet slightly deranged honey eating fanfare.
This is true. Kenyatta and Ellie of Know Your Meme are hosting World Series of ‘Tubing tonight. Also, awesome videos by Bennett.
Rehearsal
EJ and I are hosting the ‘World Series of Tubing’ game show tonight at Eyebeam.
