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Last week I had the great pleasure of of speaking to the National Cancer Institute about the relationship between art and science. Below I’ve posted the visual part of the presentation, but sadly there is not audio or video recording to go along. Here is a brief summary of my 30-minute presentation to help you make sense [...] About a month or so ago I picked up a copy of the SF Panorama which was almost too great for words. One of the best things in it was a Rocket Sam comic by Chris Ware that, on the back, had a paper-craft model of rocket. Well, the other night I totally geeked out [...] You know Alan Moore. Perhaps the worlds greatest comic book writer: V for Vendeta, Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlema, and Tom Strong. Here is some great advice to young artists: It’s nice to know that Ray Bradbury is such a comic geek. I found this over at Tor. Last night I, and about 15 Raygun Gothic Rocket crew, went to the SF premiere of Cory McAbees awesome new space western musical move — Stingray Sam. Of course, it was no real shock that it was such an amazingly original film. McAbee is responsible for creating The American Astronaut, a much loved, black and white, [...] Awesome. More Space Western Musical from the creators of The American Astronaut which was probably one of the biggest inspirations for the Raygun Gothic. Get more here at Cory Mcabees site. This machine was inspired by dreaming about gear ratios and considering the unexpected implications of exponential powers. Each worm/worm gear pair reduces the speed of the motor by 1/50th. Since there are 12 pairs of gears, the final speed reduction is calculated by (1/50)12. The implications are quite large. With the motor turning around 200 revolutions [...] via Make. Tristan Shone and his kick ass sound machines. I bet you’re wondering what the Swine Flu genome sounds like? Well, luckily Stephan Zielineki has converted it to music. You can listen it it here. Swine flu has been sequenced. More out of curiosity than anything else, I wrote code to translate a key gene into a piece of ambient music: Swine Flu Hemagglutinin (mp3, 6.7 [...] Thanks DS! Amsterdam Real Time During the months October through December 2002, inhabitants of Amsterdam were invited to be equipped with a tracer-unit. The tracer unit is a portable PDA (Personal Digital Assistant such as an i-Paq or Palm Pilot), which is connected to a GPS unit (Global Positioning System). Using satellite data the tracer calculates its geographical [...] I recently found out about the architectural work of Gramazio & Kohler who use industrial robots to build highly patterned brick walls. . I’m very intrigued by the possibility of creating highly complex, repeating, organic constructions by harnessing the high-precision capabilities of robotic construction. This is an obvious and natural continuation [...] Reuben Margolin is a fantastic, kinetic artist who makes stunning wave machine. Take a few minutes out of your day and watch this Make video featuring him. Reuben and I are fellow member of Applied Kinetic Arts. Speaking of AKA, we are doing another show at Maker Faire this year and Almost Scientific will be installing The [...] While I was away at the Lightwave show in Dublin I took a brief side trip to Paris. While there I went to a really great exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo called Gakona where I saw this piece by Roman Signer called Paraphuie I. (paraphuie is french for umbrella) As far as high voltage art [...] I just got back from a very interesting talk by the PIE group at the Exploratorium. They spent ten days in India teaching Tibetan monks simple scientific concepts with cardboard automata. They first had them study some pre-made automata and then had them make their own. In true Exploratorium sprint they emphasized the playful and artistic elements [...] A while ago I posted a short film by Shane Acker called 9 that was really mind blowing. Well, I just found out that Tim Burton is producing a full length, animated feature based on the short film. Here is the trailer: |
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