Human Wire

NYTimes Art Installation

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:07:29 -0500

For the lobby of the new NYTimes Building, Artist Ben Rubin and UCLA professor/statistician Mark Hansen have created a multi-media installation of 560 small screens, mounted on two walls, which display information culled from the newspaper’s archives and live feeds. Information is parsed and displayed by algorithms created by the artists. By Andy Plesser

Beat This (1984)

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:36:40 -0500

From a hip hop documentary, Beat This (1984, New York) about grafitti (via).

Capsule Hotel, Tokyo

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:22:42 -0500

Possibly the smallest hotel rooms anywhere. Video by GeoBeats.

Snow Bacteria

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:21:02 -0500

A biologist has created a new way to search for bacteria that might make better artificial snow or even creamier ice cream.

Ron Mueck's Sculptures

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:18:01 -0500

On Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Crop Circles

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:54:25 -0500

A crew from Firefox creates a large-scale Firefox Logo Crop Circle from stomp boards in Portland, OR.

Technorati Offices Videoblogged

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:49:32 -0500

Jay Dedman and Ryan Hudson cover some of the Technorati crew.

New Media Consortium Second Life Curriculum

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:46:13 -0500

Take New Media classes in Second Life From the NMC.

Extracting Hydrogen and Oxegen from Water

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:36:08 -0500

Via Make: "This movie explains the process of separating water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, among other things. It also provides a brief scientific explanation of how this works, and, of course, combustion of the produced Hydrogen."

Camel Wrestling!

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:50:04 -0500

Good ol' fashioned camel wrestling from Turkey.

SegCast Episode 006

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:33:20 -0500

In this 6th episode of SegCast. The SegCast team talks with some of the Silicon Valley Aftershocks about Segway Polo.

SegCast Episode 005 Segway PT video edition

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:26:04 -0500

SegCast labs checks out the new Segway PT and brings you all the details on the new i2.

Art Mob at the Public Garden

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:09:18 -0500

Andy Carvin covers the a Photo Art Mob in Boston's Public Garden. "At first I thought they were protestors holding signs, but they were actually a group of amateur photographers who were standing in a circle holding out large photos they'd taken around the garden. Since they weren't able to get their work shown in a gallery, they decided to become a human gallery at the garden. They formed as a meetup group, and were asking garden visitors to upload their own photos to a virtual version of the gallery." [mov | wmv]

Mayday at Harvard

Tue, 02 May 2006 09:31:12 -0500

Steve Garfield offers a glimpse of the activities that took place for May Day at Harvard on May 1st.

Immigration Rally at Harvard University

Tue, 02 May 2006 09:26:57 -0500

Andy Carvin reports from an immigration rally held on May 1st at Harvard Unversity.