A gallery featuring beautiful aerial photography from Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s global survey: The Earth From Above. As mentioned in a previous post, the project “was born from Yab’s dream for a general survey on the state of the Earth at the eve of the 21st century”.
Centripetal Notion// archive
You are at the archive for the October, 2005
250,000 Bouncing Balls
Sony dropped around 250,000 mulitcolored bouncing superballs down a San Francisco street to film a commerical for their Bravia flat-screen televisions.
Prangstgrüp
A comedy troupe with many sketches available to watch online. One of their more recent bits, Reach, is a short musical number set during a university lecture.
Octacube
“Adrian Ocneanu, professor of mathematics at Penn State, has designed a stainless steel sculpture depicting a 3-dimensional projection of a 4-dimensional ‘octacube’. The massive sculpture was fabricated by Penn State’s Engineering Services Shop.”
Megachurches
“Megachurch”—like “McMansion” or “big-box store”—is a disdainful put-down. And like many put-downs it is not particularly accurate; very large churches have been around for a long time. Think Hagia Sophia, the Gothic cathedrals, or that Vatican megabasilica, St. Peter’s, which accommodates 60,000 worshipers. [...] What distinguishes the current crop of megachurches is not so much their size—none rivals St. Peter’s—but their different sense of architectural style.
The Long Now
The Long Now Foundation unveiled its Orrery clock last night to the public in Marin County, California.
Entermation
The Colbert Report premiered Monday (M-TH, 11:30pm, following The Daily Show on Comedy Central), and if you haven’t yet caught it (fools), here are the first week’s episodes available for download, courtesy CommonBits.
Imogen Heap
Imogen is best known as the voice of Frou Frou, specifically her single “Let Go”, featured in the movie Garden State last year. Her newest solo album, Speak For Yourself, just came out in the UK, and is set for US release the first of November. It’s already the 277th most popular album on Amazon (US) with more than ten days left until its arrival.
Hurricane Roll Call
A time-lapse animation of this year’s hurricane season thus far, with all the storms from A-Z.
American Tribes
“a collaboratively generated geographical map of the US that visualizes how the country is organized culturally, as opposed to its traditional political boundaries. the map attempts to show how the country is divided into ’spheres of influence’ between different cities at the national, regional & local levels.”
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