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The New Hippies
Intellectual, transformational, open, psychedelic, and inside. Check out Daniel Pinchbecks's reality sandwich and take a bite.
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Where art and engineering meet
Theo Jensen, Kinetic sculptures are lyrical, inspirational...mesmerizing. And I have to say, I'm always a sucker for this kind of advertising...6 months later, and I remembered that BMW sponsored this guy! Theo Jensen, Kinetic sculptures are lyrical, inspirational...mesmerizing. And I have to say, I'm always a sucker for this kind of adv... more
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Cloning cells to fight cancer
A man is cancer free after having his cloned defensive cancer cells injected into his body. I never liked the idea of cloning whole animals, etc., but cloning individual cells to fight disease sounds like a good step towards eliminating cancer. A man is cancer free after having his cloned defensive cancer cells injected into his body. I never liked the idea of cloning whole an... more
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Giant Red Art
Art has always served as a reflection of the views and thoughts of its creator, as well as the society from which it comes. Red Ink looks at the evolution and changes occurring in Chinese culture by examining the development of Chinese Contemporary Art. Art has always served as a reflection of the views and thoughts of its creator, as well as the society from which it comes. Red Ink lo... more
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"I am not an animal!" Body performance art by Lucy and Bart Hess
LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, perform... more
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Robot conducts orchestra
ASIMO,A robot designed by honda directs the detroit sympthony oschestra. they pperform 'Impossible Dream'
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Clay Shirky just blew my mind
You must read this speech transcript from NYU social software expert Clay Shirky. It is, no joke, the most interesting thing I've read yet in 2008. Not interesting in the "oh wow I didn't know whales had a freaky whale-language" way... interesting in the "oh wow EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE" way.
Title: "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus." You must read this speech transcript from NYU social software expert Clay Shirky. It is, no joke, the most interesting thing I've read... more -
Artificial Intelligence 2.0
Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees the world as a web of probabilities.
A mathematical theoretician, she has made contributions in areas like robotics and biology. Her biggest accomplishment — and at age 39, she is expected to make more — is creating a set of computational tools for artificial intelligence that can be used by scientists and engineers to do things like predict traffic jams, improve machine vision and understand the way cancer spreads.
Ms. Koller is part of a revival of interest in artificial intelligence. After three decades of disappointments, artificial intelligence researchers are making progress. Recent developments made possible spam filters, Microsoft’s new ClearFlow traffic maps and the driverless robotic cars that Stanford teams have built for competitions sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Ms. Koller is beginning to apply her algorithms more generally to help scientists discern patterns in vast collections of data. Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees the world as a web of probabil... more -
roboexotica: coming to SF in 2008
Hosted at the SPACE program warehouse. May 10 @ 8pm
354 5th st. san francisco (@: Selma, below Folsom)
Roboexotica is an attempt to fill a void in the festival world. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide.
Hosted at the SPACE program warehouse. May 10 @ 8pm 354 5th st. san francisco (@: Selma, below Folsom) ... more -
evil icq pranks
courtesy of Bre Pettis of I Make Things: A site that published transcriptions of ICQ pranks.
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The Twitchy-- NYC Resistors
Rafael Abrams explains his touch sensitive half-baby robot thing. Enjoy!
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SFIFF: Spotlight: Kinotek, Sunday, May 4th
The 20 short videos in this program run quickly between intensely complicated structures and achingly beautiful abstractions. These works use computers and software design as a bridge between traditional media like film and sculpture. Each of these animated works, presenting finely crafted visions and sounds, is an example of “generative art.” The term defines artistic production generated through algorithms or other computational processes. In essence, an animator, engineer, designer or group produces parameters within which particular works materialize randomly. It is as if the artist produced her own counterpart—the artist she wishes existed—and had her make the video you will watch in this program. Another unique aspect of generative work is that the media produced through specific virtual algorithms or processes can in many cases vary wildly. The algorithms that generate the videos could just as easily make sculptures, music, drawings, paintings or poems the form of the finished works. In this program, SFIFF will present single-channel video work only. The bulk of the program was assembled by Lia and Miguel Carvalhais for a Generative Art program presented at the 2006 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. Three other works were taken from the forthcoming DVD Advanced Beauty, assembled by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything and Freeform.
04_066 (dextro, Austria/Japan 2003, 2 min)
21_063 (dextro, Austria/Japan 2005, 1 min)
371 Adv3 (David Muth, England/Austria 2006, 1 min)
Berlin (Karl Kliem, Denmark/Japan 2005, 4 min)
Chained Probabilities (Toxi, England/USA 2004, 4 min)
Chronomops (Tina Frank, Austria 2005, 2 min)
Crosslinxs (Telcosystems, Netherlands 2005, 2 min)
ElectroPlastique #1 (Marius Watz, Norway 2005, 5 min)
Errange.03 (Meta, USA 2005, 4 min)
Flight404 (Robert Hodgin, USA 2008, 4 min)
flow (Lia, Austria/Portugal 2006, 5 min)
int. 16/54//son01/30x1 (Lia, Austria 2005, 6 min)
Meta_Epics generative Live Cinema installation (Telcosystems, Netherlands 2005, 3 min)
Metastatic Resonance (U-Sun, England/Australia 2006, 7 min)
Panda1 (Pandapanther, USA 2008, 4 min)
Panda2 (Pandapanther, USA 2008, 4 min)
Release the object (Nik Gaffney, Belgium 2006, 5 min)
Sculpture 5 (Joshue Ott, USA 2006, 5 min)
unsimulatable-ih-fk (Joshue Ott, USA 2006, 6 min)
unsimulatable-psb-bos (Joshue Ott, USA 2006, 5 min) The 20 short videos in this program run quickly between intensely complicated structures and achingly beautiful abstractions. These wo... more -
Tim Robbins controversial NAB speech
Here are the last six minutes of actor Tim Robbins controversial NAB speech. NAB organizers ordered the cameras off, due to a no filming clause, however the audio recorders remained on. I would urge you listen to this now- before it disappears.
Despite being urged by an audience of hundreds of radio and television executives to “give the speech,” Robbins didn’t hesitate to bite the hand of the media. He said the radio industry had been on the way to creating a single “national playlist” before XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio came along, and he criticized other national media for not relentlessly pursuing what he carefully but clearly implied were lies of the current president, George W. Bush, in the relentless fashion they went after his predecessor, Bill Clinton, for his sexual dalliance with an intern.
He also called on the industry to turn back from a kind of reporting that reduces the variety of voices being delivered on any given issue and distracts the public with excessive reporting about starlets stepping out of cars with no panties on. Such news takes “no energy" and requires little thought, he said.
Taken from:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/CA6551356.html Here are the last six minutes of actor Tim Robbins controversial NAB speech. NAB organizers ordered the cameras off, due to a no film... more -
Touchless UI
Demo of LM3Labs touchless user interface on an hp laptop.
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Anatomy of a Festival Badge, by Chris Holland
Brilliant. Thanks to Twitter.
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browser - music synchronicity project - video 1
i am experiementing with capturing synchronicities between the music i am playing on my computer with videos i happen to pull up on the web. this song by chromeo synced up quite nicely with this youtube of two girls playing ouiji board. i am experiementing with capturing synchronicities between the music i am playing on my computer with videos i happen to pull up on th... more
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Apple's branding makes you more creative?
A new study suggests that just looking at the Apple logo might have an impact on people's creativity. Participants were shown the Apple logo for an imperceptible fraction of a second, then asked to think of as many uses for a brick as possible. They came up with 30 percent more uses than other participants who were shown the IBM logo.
I'm sure it's not conclusive evidence, but what the heck, here's the Apple logo. Gaze into it. Now go. Be creative. A new study suggests that just looking at the Apple logo might have an impact on people's creativity. Participants were shown the App... more
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