The emails have been piling up, so here goes the second edition (which I’m also calling the “NY Times edition”) of “Neat Links From My Father!”
- A “good and cheap” Chinese restaurant in the city, I will have to investigate and give my input.
- Get inspired by the creativity and thriftiness of college students!
- More from the NY Times, this time an article about Shepard Fariey (probably the most famous for his Andre the Giant / OBEY and Obama posters).
- Hidden Parks of NYC
- Google releases a HopStop-like (a transit navigational site) feature for New York and New Jersey. But, unlike HopStop, Google works directly and is affiliated with the MTA, Port Authority and NJ Transit.
- Who doesn’t love Barbar?
- Moose Hunting with Woody Allen.
I’ve been working on some things related to this post, so I didn’t get to touch on my little computer drama that happened Thursday.
My biggest problem with my Mac has been its power… or its declining ability to hold it. The battery, unplugged, doesn’t work for over 20 minutes. This means I am more and more reliant on my power adapter cord. Well, I’ve having problems with it as well! This lameness included some exposed wires and disconnection of power. I should have imminently discarded the old cord, I know, but, I’m one of the biggest cheap-skates (ever), and I thought I could just tape it up and be done with it… *hangs and shakes head*
Thursday morning, before the caffeine had even made its way through my system, the cord caught fire! It was put out very quickly (thank you, Love) and there was minimal damages (small burn mark on the wall and burnt tape gunk on the desk).
Very cool, well explained video about all the dimensions (we know of), which is, believe it or not, 10! Everything is explained very straightforward and, though the ideas are complex, in a way that even I was able to get. I’m considering picking up the book; if not for me, than for my father, who I would think would be very interested in these kind of things.
Most of us have gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: but how can we possibly imagine the tenth? This project starts from the unique argument that time really is just one of the directions in the fourth spatial dimension, and our spacetime universe is being created one planck length at a time as we twist and turn in the available branches of the fifth dimension. This “new way of thinking about time and space” is not the traditional position of mainstream science: still, many people around the world feel this new idea has resonances with their own ways of understanding reality.
I’ve gotta rep my old school, SCAD! Great and informative video.
In this ~9-minute video, Daniel Floyd, a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, convincingly advances the theory that the major problem with sex in video-games is that there isn’t enough sex in video games — that video-games’ failure to come to grips with sex as part of the artistic message and aesthetic in games (in addition to the hypersexualized juvenile Lara Croft/Duke Nukem stuff), it can’t convincingly argue that games are an actual artistic medium that deserves to be considered on the same terms as painting, literature, sculpture, film, and other media that often feature sexual material.
The planning that must have gone into this is amazing and the results are even more so! Artist, Erik Nordenankar, created a self portrait, spanning the globe, measuring 40,076,594M x 40,009,153M.
With the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet. My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the strokes of the drawing.
*Squeel!* Oh, mommy, please, please can i has a Wall-E!?
Disney/Pixar has developed a mobile animatronic version of WALL-E to roam the Disney amusement parks. /Film Twitter friend Jeremy C spotted the robot in the streets of Los Angeles and was able to capture this video footage of the droid in action. I want one, how much?
Quoted from /Film | Thanks, +KN, for the great find!
Came across this very cool Flickr pool of side-by-side pictures of Liberty City (from GTA4) and NYC. There is so much amazing detail! Props to all the creatives involved with this!
