Amazing footage, now with nifty music!
No flea market for us this weekend. We will, instead be having a yard sale at our place to help Jack’s mum with sorting and selling her costumes. We also hope to make it out to a few of the artists that are part of Open Studios. Enjoy yours!
The question seems simple enough, “what is the color of this girl’s sash?” It’s surprising to find out that the answer given now would differ wildly from the one given when it was originally painted. Now: pink. Then: yellow! And it seems that our definition of certain colors have changed through history.
Many ancient cultures didn’t have a working vocabulary for the color blue. Names for the colors, as we know them today, rolled out slowly. Black and white came first, and then red, yellow, and green. Blue was often used as a subset of green, instead of a different color altogether. While the sky, to ancient Greek eyes, might be lit up by the sun and turned to a golden bronze color, it would not be considered ‘green’. And a darkened sea might look closer to wine than to a color associated with grass.
Via io9
Dad, you might find this interesting: an opera based on Origin of Species. I have this album and it’s quite strange (as you would expect from The Knife), but I find the concept to be an appealingly unique one. I am very curious to see the performance and visuals for this.
Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book ‘On the Origin of the Species’, The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme. They extensively researched Darwin related literature and articles, with Olof attending a field recording workshop in the Amazon to find inspiration and to record sounds.
Been thinking about this video all morning. It’s so easy to get caught up in the little things, but it’s good to take a few million steps back and take a look at the much, much larger picture.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we’ve ever known.The pale blue dot.
EDIT: Looks like the video was taken down… that was fast! Go to Gizmodo where they have embedded into their own page.
Via Gizmodo
The year’s first batch of links from my dad!
- Mistakes in typography grate the purists.
- Beautiful video of how the Earth would look with rings.
- Typographic Character Coasters.
- McAfee, Inc. warns consumers about “The Twelve Scams of Christmas.”
- Unknown filmmaker gets $30m for robot movie.
- Adorable photo of how genetics works.
- Going Deep for the Cheap in New York.
- Phoenix: Perfect Pop Gems, Stripped Down.
- Scroll down to the video about Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360.
- These days, the fantasy of building a career on Etsy is not just the stuff of dreams.
- Sumerians look on in confusion as God creates world.
- Santa’s Naughty–Nice Database Hacked!
- The story of Christmas in Savannah in 1864.
- Some NYC restaurant recommendations.
- Frugal Portland.
- Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says.
- If ‘Star Wars’ was On Facebook.
- Neuroethics & the Trolley Dilemma; a discussion about morality and ethics.
- No Pants Subway Ride Attracts Hundreds.
- According to The American Dialect Society: 2009 Word of the Year is “tweet”; Word of the Decade is “google.”
Photo by Fabiana Zonca | Via Dir Journal
Gorgeous and geeky! By jewelry makers, Boucheron.
The one-of-a-kind “Julia” necklace, which is being introduced at a couture-week party in Paris tomorrow evening, was inspired by Newson’s obsession with fractals — geometric shapes that can be subdivided into smaller versions of themselves, specifically the Julia Sets of fractals discovered by Gaston Julia in the early 1900s.
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The scientifically-spawned sparkler contains around 2,000 paved stones and took the company’s craftspeople 1,500 hours to realize using rapid-prototyping technology and a minimal three-prong setting, so the stones appear to float on the wearer’s throat.
Via Core77
Incredible talk given by copyright activist/lawyer, Larry Lessig, creator of Creative Commons; entitled “It is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright.” It’s an hour long, but totally worth it.
Via Boing Boing
No, but I will now! So creepy! Meet the dream stalker!
Presurfer
I had some fun playing with the map on this site today. Compiled from historical maps, archaeological records and ecological data it shows what “Manhatta” was like like in 1609, Before human impact.
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