Centripetal Notion

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Tuesday 30 Dec, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Music + Video
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Starts getting really nutty around 1:58. This is such a simple effect, but so effective.

VIDEO thanks Kazunori!

Wednesday 17 Dec, 2008 at 9:18 am
Art/Design + Music + Video + Wildlife
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They did this with one projector. Amazing.

VIDEO via The Future is Awesome

Tuesday 16 Dec, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Animation + Dance + Humor + Performance + Technology + Video
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VIDEO (via Phil Plait)

Sunday 14 Dec, 2008 at 2:14 am
Humor + Life + Technology
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Seriously some of the best, most inventive and virtuosic music I’ve heard in a while. Via Nico Muhly.

VIDEO/AUDIO [good performance, whole set on YouTube]
ARTICLE [interesting NYT bio]
ARTICLE [Wikipedia article for Owen Pallett]
LINK/MEDIA [official website]

Monday 8 Dec, 2008 at 7:50 am
Music + Performance
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A recently released image from Hubble peers into globular cluster M13, resembling some kind of cosmic snowglobe.

IMAGE [full size version of above image, and more info @ HubbleSite]

Thursday 4 Dec, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Astronomy + Photography + Universe
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See also: The State of Centripetal Notion.

Thanks to everyone who is subscribed to Centripetal Notion. Traffic and activity has been higher in the last several months than ever before, yet at the same time I have never posted less often.

That’s not going to change for now. When I started this blog, it was my single channel for sharing ideas with friends and stumbling visitors. But now I do this on other sites as well, including the various social networks.

I won’t stop posting here though, not anytime soon. But what ends up here nowadays are only the things I feel really passionate about sharing. Before I’d often post 2 or 3 times a day, now it’s generally 2 or 3 times a month.

I hope you’ll welcome this in an age of information overload, and appreciate that I’m only sending stuff your way I either think is genuinely important, and/or you won’t find anywhere else.

For a higher volume of miscellaneous artsy/sciencey/techy/sexy stuff like what used to come through here, feel free follow me on Twitter:

FOLLOW ME [@jruckman on Twitter]

Also, you might be interested in my personal blog, where I post about what I’m up to of a more professional nature: web/info design, citizen journalism, etc.:

LINK [my blog and portfolio]

I’m working on a redesign of this site. Nothing major, and it’s not finished, but already I like the change.

Hope this finds all of you well. I leave you with a kickass space picture and some badass music, as is only fair. If nothing else, this site will always have space pictures and music.

IMAGE [1920x1200 version]

AUDIO [Squarepusher - Planet Gear]
AUDIO [Why? - Song of the Sad Assasin]
AUDIO [Hot Chip - And I Was a Boy From School]
AUDIO [Apes & Androids - Imaginary Friends]
AUDIO [Kelley Polar - A Feeling of the All-Thing]
AUDIO [David Fiuczynski & Rufus Cappadocia - Prayer for my Father]

Monday 10 Nov, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Astronomy + Meta + Music + Photography
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VIDEO

Friday 19 Sep, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Music + Performance
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VIDEO

Wednesday 17 Sep, 2008 at 12:39 am
Chemistry + Physics + Science
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Click through for larger images and a lot of variations. Drawings were collected from 250 participants in a research project who were asked to draw what various emotions felt like, what direction that emotions travels, etc. The result is revealing.

LINK/IMAGES Emotionally}Vague website, via infosthetics

Wednesday 3 Sep, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Art/Design + Biology + Illustration + Information Design + Psychology
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