HAIL
Hail. On the Equator. WTF?
MIT labs and Aaron Zinman created a digital installation that creates your online genome, a visual representation of how the web sees you. Part art installation, part critique, Personas | Metropath(ologies) exploits the fact that there are likely several people in the world, living or dead, who share your name. A simple search of websites, [...]
A visualization of the decline of western European empires. Things get interesting around the 1960s. Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.
Hmmm. Should I get a recumbent or an upright bike? If the ZWEISTIL makes it into production, you won’t have to choose. The bike demonstrated in the following video is an entrant in this year’s James Dyson award competition. From the website… The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and [...]
Who knows, “protect and serve” might mean changing your tire the next time you flat. h/t to Dale McKeel who pointed this out on the durhambikeandped listserv.
Standing Start, a 12-minute documentary short-film on track bicycle racing, uses narration adapted from Homer’s The Odyssey to frame the significance of training, pursuit, and competition. Like Douglas Gordon’s Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait, this riveting film from the Scottish Documentary Institute looks at the some of life’s larger questions through an intimate and aesthetic [...]
Makes any video look cool… (click the image to see what I’m talking about)
Last week, the United Nations launched the World Digital Library, featuring historic books, maps, recordings and other artifacts from many of the great institutions around the globe. The WDL draws on the resources of the Library of Congress, UNESCO, and other cultural institutions. For example, below is a digitized film from 1899, shot by Thomas [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Flying Shepherd Salt Owning the Weather Art & Copy Sons of Cuba The Yes Men Fix the World Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait La Chirola Unit 25 Objectified Oil Blue Sweet Crude Burma VJ All in one weekend… I’ll be bleary-eyed tomorrow.