“I imagined people playing with art around them, like they would do playing with pictures on their iPhone/iPad,” says Caillard.
French artist Leo Caillard has created a new installation at the Louvre – virtually, anyway – that recontextualizes the art as digital imagery inside an Apple UI space. Taking the concept behind Art Authority to its logical conclusion, I say.
(Wired)
I have been rather despondent over the transformation of the SciFi Channel into this abomination that is Syfy. It wasn’t so bad at first but then the cancelations began. Namely, the axing of Caprica which I moaned about earlier. Then SGU – a canceled Stargate series at that! Most recently it was the inclusion of increasingly ridiculous shows more akin to TLC (also a disappointment as a network lately). Take WCG Ultimate Gamer, the plethora of Ghost Hunters or WWE wrestling as examples.
My excitement, then, over the promo for Face Off is ludicrously boundless. A show that, while not strictly science fiction, at least features the world of making science fiction as it searches for the next great makeup artist. PLEASE DON’T SCREW THIS ONE UP, SYFY!
Lepht Anonym is a transhumanist experimenter with years of experience performing DIY enhancements to herself:
But it isn’t for everybody, this cutting yourself up in your own kitchen. She’s the first to warn people that it hurts. A lot. Every time, you don’t get used to it. Afterward, people may not be inclined to understand, to put it mildly. (“Avoid normal people,” she warns. “They’re stupid.”)
io9 has a compelling story about Lepht that’s a really entertaining short read.
What will the world look like in 2019? io9 posts a video interview with visual futurist (a title I’d kill for), Syd Mead, that aims to answer this question.
2019: A Future Imagined from Flat-12 on Vimeo.
I think what I enjoyed most was Syd’s advice for doing good work – being the creator, the technician and the observer. This is kind of the core of my job and has been since I started at 19, so it’s good to hear it from such a visionary. Thanks, Syd!
Kate just found for me this amazing Tumblr, Everything Punk, Goth and New Wave – a collection of real photos from the heyday of the subculture(s).
Sometimes I think I was born just a little too late. While my 1984 start in the world put me in the thick of new wave and goth culture, I was a little too onesie-clad to partake in the more interesting fashion choices. And it may be a little cliché to look like a panel from the Sandman, I’d still thrill at participating in this aesthetic while it was new.
As Kate astutely points out though, “I’d miss the internet.” So maybe the 80s were best left to my early years?
While I think of cars with pretty staggering regularity, I very rarely pay much attention to those from South Korea (which have always seemed like half-baked knock-offs of Japanese cars.) Recently, though, I’ve noticed my eyes drifting towards Kia’s offerings as they roll past and I had to ask myself: what the hell is going on here?
The Kia C’eed, Top Gear’s reasonably priced car from last season.
Well, the answer turns out to be something I already knew but had completely forgotten: Peter Schreyer is the chief of design for Kia. And his former job? Lead designer for Audi and VW.
I knew those crisp, clean lines looked familiar!
I’ve only made it through the first portion that was hosted on CNN’s website, but this video exploration of Japan’s Suicide Forest is eerie – and a perfect compliment to the song in my head as the afternoon pushes on. (Thanks, Kate!)
Does anyone else think this exceptionally well-shot ad for The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas looks like it could be a promotion for the next vampire hotel visited on True Blood?
New-old coworker, Hannah, just sent me this über cool video of a Czech clock tower being brought back to its former glory in Prague. Wouldn’t it be cool to try this with any number of historic buildings in small towns across the country? I can imagine this being an outstanding history project – just wonder how difficult it would be to actually pull off?
The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.