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Cat Physics (PDF).
Saw this series at the Venice Biennale years and years ago… still thinking about them.
Roman Opałka was a French-born Polish painter who painted numbers. In 1965 he began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. As of July 2004, he had reached 5.5 million. (via triangulation)
If this is about a fitbit for my cat, I’m in.
The problem, though, with the Internet Of Things is that it falls apart when it starts to think about people. When big company Internet Of Things thinkers get involved they tend to spawn creepy videos about sleek people in sleek homes living optimised lives full of smart objects. These videos…
Yesterday, Facebook unveiled their new “Timeline” design. Largely imagined by Sam Lessin and Nicholas Feltron, the design coaxes personal actions recorded by Facebook into a humane, emotional, interface for a given history1. Users can delve into their content not as images, notes, and…
Onformative Actelion Imagery Wizard - made in Processing.
“ Processing seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting them away from their usual tools and into the world of programming and computation. similarly, the project is designed to turn engineers and computer scientists to less gainful employment as artists and designers. ”
Ben Fry and Casey Reas (via notational)
