As you turn your body light travels through embedded wires that vine around the jacket, illuminating which direction is north. If it were dark, you could tell which way you were traveling by watching the glow from the corners of your eyes.
Centripetal Notion// archive
You are at the archive for the June, 2006
Cat Chases Bear Up Tree
Happens to the best of us …
Bubble Rings: Human vs. Whale
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Epitonic Returns
Epitonic was the first good music website I ever came across. It was five years ago and I was a junior in high school, up late in the morning looking for some free Steve Reich recordings when I found their archives, and subsequently a ton of music I had never heard before. [...] Yesterday I was surprised to receive an email from them announcing their return.
Flirting With Blindness
The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) is a solar telescope satellite launched in 1998. Their website has images and footage — hundreds of gigabytes of high resolution footage — of flares, filaments, and various other active regions.
Vibram FiveFingers
The first shoe from Vibram, maker of 32 million soles a year for more than 1,000 footwear brands. It’s a light-weight shoe, like Nike’s Free taken to the extreme, useful for any outdoor activities you’d rather do barefoot like running, boating, or rock climbing. Reviews seem to be mostly positive.
Sketches of Frank Gehry
“Director Sydney Pollack’s first feature length documentary on the acclaimed architect, Frank O. Gehry. The two men have been friends for many years, and Pollack completed the film over a period of five years, starting in 2000. Frank Gehry loves to sketch; it is the beginning of his architectural process.”
Batwoman Comes Back, Comes Out
sketch of the re-imagined Batwoman Killed in September 1979 by the League of Assassins and the Bronze Tiger, Batwoman — a.k.a. Kathy Kane — is set to return in 52, a year-long DC Comics publication beginning this month. This time however, Batwoman is a lesbian. Reaction to the announcement has been varied, but to the [...]
“Very Active” Hurricane Season
Today, the 1st of June, marks the first day of this year’s hurricane season. Colorado State University forecasters predict a “very active” year with five major storms expected, and an 82 percent chance that at least one will make landfall on the US east cost (compared to the normal likelihood of 52 percent).
Harvester Ant Nest Architecture
Walter Tschinkel, entomology professer at Florida State University, has been making plaster casts of ant nests since 1982.
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