Aus Sich t: August 2011

Aug 11, 2011

Visual Editions: book in a box

Visual Editions (VE), also known for their books "Tree of Codes" and "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", have a new book coming.

Composition No. 1 is the first ever “book in a box”. The book was written in 1961 by Marc Saporta, Universal Everything designed it, introduction is by Tom Uglow of Google and it features diagrams by Salvador Plascencia .

Jakob Hunosøe

Jakob Hunosøe is a Danish photographer. more from the series On Things Ordinary.

God or statistics?

Joan R. Ginther has won the lottery four times, each time with million dollar payouts:

Ms Ginther is a former math professor with a PhD from Stanford University specialising in statistics.

Mr Rich details the myriad ways in which Ms Ginther could have gamed the system - including the fact that she may have figured out the algorithm that determines where a winner is placed in each run of scratch-off tickets.
He believes that after Ms Ginther figured out the algorithm, it wouldn’t be difficult to determine where the tickets would be shipped, as the shipping schedule is apparently fixed, and there were a few sources she could have found it out from.
According to Forbes, the residents of Bishop, Texas, seem to believe God was behind it all.

Full article here.
(via FlowingData)

Aug 9, 2011

London Underground by Mark Noad

London designer Mark Noad redesigned Harry Beck’s famous London Underground topological map.

London underground map by Harry Beck

London underground map by Mark Noad

The simulation, which took 5.3 million processor hours to compute, condenses about four minutes of time after a fault ruptures near Bombay Beach. Most of the energy ripples southward, but unlike in previous earthquake simulations, the team displayed the sporadic movement of simulated pieces of the ground with an exaggerated height.

Video after the jump

"There are some statisticians who get it, but most seem to be stuck in the Tukey-Tufte school of thinking; unfortunately, most of them would even take that as a compliment."

Robert Kosara

Link to article

probably the most expensive shot in silent film

“This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film history. It was filmed in a single take, that had to be perfect, with a real train and a ‘dummy’ engineer (notice the white arm hanging out the conductors window). Some of the locals who came to watch the filming, thought the dummy was a real person and screamed in horror; supposedly, one person even fainted.”

Aug 8, 2011

Here & There: mapping without horizon

The projection begins with a 3-dimensional representation off the immediate environment. But this you already see in 3D... The plan view has the great advantage to offer me an overview of the surrounding area, but in this projection, i have it only for distant parts.
Short: nice but useless.
Video and more after the jump.

RadioSolarKompass by Roman Haefeli & Anja Kaufmann

On the occasion of the exhibition Connect. Art between Media and Reality at Rote Fabrik in Zürich, Roman Häfeli and Anja Kaufmann redesigned their project RadioSolarKompass:

RadioSolarKompass can be interpreted as sonification of the rotation of our earth. You can follow the sunrise around the globe by listening to a never ending live stream of morning broadcasts from a current spot in the early morning sun.

The programme behind RadioSolarKompass connects radios from all over the world depending on the time of sunrise. You can see on the worldmap, where actually the sun is rising and from this location, you can hear a radio broadcast.

Link

Landjagd: An alternative guide exploring the swiss country side.

Flurina Gradin and Denise Locher, two young swiss designers from Zürich gathered 60 Portraits of small villages far away from the tourists hotspots.

On the Launch of Visually

Nathan Yau's (Flowing Data) Besprechung des neuen Visualization-Players Visually trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf:

I can't help but feel it's more about pretty pictures and traffic than it is about making sense of data...
For me, Visually is one of those sites that I want to like. There's just not enough there right now for me to get excited about it.

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Friday Skate Break

Skating in Mongolia

"Where do we Land?" (Full Length) Converse China trip to Mongolia from Patrik Wallner on Vimeo.

Batman-Logo in Equation Form

Aug 4, 2011

50 Greatest Skateboard Logos

More and Link to the full list after the jump

RUDY DECELIÈRE is a Swiss artist working mainly with sound. His artwork consists of sound installations in public spaces or exhibition spaces. He also practises as a soundman and film editor for the cinema.

Video and more Info after the jump

Three LEGO® Minifigures leave earth on the Juno deep-space probe today on a five-year mission to Jupiter to broaden awareness of the importance of planetary research.
The specially-constructed aluminium Minifigures are the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and ‘father of science’ Galileo Galilei. The LEGO crew’s mission is part of the LEGO Bricks in Space project, the joint outreach and educational programme developed as part of the partnership between NASA and the LEGO Group to inspire children to explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

NASA gets attention through LEGO...

Link to NASA press release

Aug 3, 2011

Smallest White Cube on earth

Now you can explore the Museum of Drawers online under:

http://www.schubladenmuseum.com/

Headquaters alternate by Nicholas Sassoon

Nicholas Sassoon produced and released an architectural proposal for the online art collective Computers Club. See the alternate b&w version for ”STREET SHOW: The Things Between US”.
Soundtrack by Sara Ludy.

Policy communication or communication policy: a different approach

Swiss World Atlas interactive

Explore Switzerland (and the rest of the world) with the interactive version of the Swiss World Atlas:

The Institute of Cartography of ETH Zurich (Federal Institute of Technology) was commissioned to develop the interactive atlas version. During the development the purpose of the project team is to regard the specifics of the SWA, the expectations of teachers just as current trends and ideas about modern geography lessons, sustainability and feasibility.

Resonate Festival postponed to March 2012

The people from Resonate Festival informed yesterday:

Due to the difficulties in securing necessary funding in time we have made a decision to postpone Resonate to March 2012.

resonate
Belgrade New Media Festival
Link

GIF Market

The GIF MARKET is located on the way to future. It’s not on the destination, much more shortly after the start, but it’s one of the pioneer projects for giving files a value.
The project contains a series of 1024 animated GIFs, each named by a #number. The GIFs show a black line which marks the centre for the 1px large particles rotating around it. #1 is the most unique, it has only 1 pixel flying around, and therefore the most expensive. Down to the end there are so many particles that you can’t see the difference between #950 and #1000.
The price gets calculated by this formula:
PRICE = (SALES / NUMBER) * 16
Each sale increases the price, at the end the #1 will cost 16,384.00€.

#652

I didn't buy this one, i copy-pasted it...

Aug 1, 2011

The Time Printing Machine

Interesting, because the brightness is translated into the time:
The marker stays on the paper, thus the "bleed" the marker makes corresponds to the brightness (darkness repetitively) of the corresponding pixel.
-> the longer the pen stays on the paper, the darker the pixel.

The Time Print Machine by designer Paul Ferragut uses standard felt-tip pens mounted to a device controlled by custom hardware using openFrameworks to draw pointilist representations of images.

for watching the video i recommend to turn off the sound:

time print machine from paul F on Vimeo.

Rorschmap by James Bridle

It is Zürich, isn't it?

When maps become digital, they become something different, something new... Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything.