Sine Sole Soleo (without the sun I’m silent) by Daniel Soltis (whilst at Tinker) is a kinetic sundial that responds to light from any direction, adjusting its position until a shadow falls on the correct time.
“Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed parliamentary elections in Russia, security experts said.”
Complete time-lapse video of the Sun, spanning the entire months of September, October and November 2011 as seen through the SWAP ultraviolet instrument onboard the European Space Agency spacecraft Proba-2.
“The personality of the bot is OK. It’s more like a clinical, efficient nurse doing it’s job. It isn’t quite as chipper as other cleaning bots but it gets the job done.”
Amazon customer Ryan Mckenney reviews the Evolution Robotics Mint Automatic Hard Floor Cleaner 4200. (Via New Aesthetic)
When too few bits are used to represent a signal, each sample is rounded to the nearest allowed value and no longer matches the true signal level. The rounding errors cause noise, called quantization noise, because the actual signal is approximated using a small set of values. 8-bit computer audio is a good example of quantization noise, but the Red Panda Bitcrusher can go all the way down to 1 bit.
James Bridle speaking about the New Aesthetic at Web Directions South.
“Waving at the machines”, a 50-minute, 120-slide vector through the idea, an idea that still seems massive and nebulous, but which it is possible to fire a laser through and illuminate some motes. I’m not sure I managed to phrase the camouflage stuff quite right, and the need for an ending always feels like a cop-out, but nevertheless, I cover many of the bases.
The New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines
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Study of Time #1 by rAndom International takes light, it’s presence and it’s absence, as a medium for the representation of time. A vividly illuminated autonomous algorithm magically reveals the time of the day, re-imagining the principle of telling time from falling shadows as a contemporary light installation.
