today and tomorrow

“Ring Bowl” & “Twig Light”, both by CucumberLab.

I really don’t know why you would need a Pop-up Paper, but if you do, here’s how to fold one yourself.

Microsoft released some tools to program robots … Microsoft Robotics Studio.
Do we have to be scared now? Some robots who get out of control?
And then they use graphics like this one on their website … o boy.

So Adidas decided to jump the skateshoe bandwagon and released their first collection: adidas originals skateboarding.

Color Kinetics is a dream for LED and lightning fans! They have a big product pallet for you to buy and to start experimenting. Daniel Shiffman seems to be on the right way to connect a panel to processing. Yay!

The heat of the bulb makes this shape-memory alloy lamp “bloom” whenever the light is turned on. “hanabi”, the Japanese word for “fireworks”, literally means “flower + fire.” Both flowers and fire fade away so quickly and easily. Like its namesake, this light flickers between beauty and disappearance.

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Here’s another DIY guide to mount a Lomo Holga lens on a DSLR, a Nikon D50 this time. Other tutorials you can find here.

Today is a special day. No, this blog isn’t one year old yet.
One year ago I received my Apple Powerbook and first Apple computer at all. It seems like it was yesterday. The decision to buy a Powerbook was made years ago, but was always postponed due to the never ending Apple rumors … that powerbook G5 you know. When Apple announced that they would switch to Intel in 2006, my final decision was made. I didn’t want to wait for a second revision Intel Powerbook.
Well life on the OS X side is nice but not 100% perfect, I guess no operating system will ever give you that 100% satisfaction. This Powerbook is my first laptop ever, so I gained a lot of computer quality life (if you can say it like that) by being mobile.
Apple released some of it’s Intel macs by now, also the successor of the Powerbook, the MacBook Pro. I don’t see a reason to upgrade yet as long as some software still isn’t available for the Apple Intel platform. Maybe somewhere in 2007 …

Ping Genius Loci is one heck of a processing project.

Ping Genius Loci(PGL) is an architectural installation trying to build a network into the poetics of the place. PGL is built up from 300 radio networked, solar powered, self sustainable intelligent analogue pixels, that are placed on a 20 by 20 meters grid. These pixels function in the bright sunshine, and are interfacing the people walking in the grid. PGL is a platform in development, that enables us to try a larger set of possibilities, with different forms, interactive contents.

A poster to announce a performance of the silent piece by John Cage. The card frames and recontextualises unremarkable physical spaces in the same way 4′33″ invites the listener to reconsider silence.

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