Lately I’ve been hearing …
From director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Pi) comes The Fountain, in theaters the 13th of October.
“Theoretical physicists have recently been frustrated by a bold hypothesis concerning black holes—specifically, that they don’t exist.”
“Selected by a team of expert judges from recent acquisitions by the Medical Photographic Library of the Wellcome Library, the winning images show a wide variety of subjects, most invisible to the naked eye, revealing new layers of complexity.”
Check out the new digs at 9rules, sporting a fresh, simplified design by Mike Rundle and a new feature called Notes which opens discussion to everyone.
Being a Modest Proposal as to a Tabular Arrangement of the Key Board employing a Natural Classification.
The Superb Lyrebird found near Australia’s south-eastern coast is extraordinarily gifted at mimicry — copying not only the calls of other birds but the sounds of humans in the forest as well, including camera shutters and chainsaws.
I’ve been watching some of the TEDTalks video lately and it’s interesting, if not for the variety of people featured (Al Gore and Joshua Prince-Ramus (architect, Seattle Public Library), among others). New talks are released every week.
Check out NatureFootage’s high definition (and relatively inexpensive) library of time lapse flowers, fruit, and vegetables.
Bryan’s dripping, flourishing, richly-textured organic style of illustration is … well, it’s just that. If you’ve seen the music video for Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” then you’re already familiar.
“Vincent van Gogh is known for his chaotic paintings and similarly tumultuous state of mind. Now a mathematical analysis of his works reveals that the stormy patterns in many of his paintings are uncannily like real turbulence, as seen in swirling water or the air from a jet engine.”
For €7,900 ($10,100 USD) you can enjoy dinner suspended 50 meters in the sky, prepared and served by a team of professionals.
Two t-shirts with functioning graphic equalizers that react to sound in their environment.
Some awesome footage from debris analysis cameras attached to the Shuttle SRBs during separation. Check out the higher-res Quicktime of the composite view above for the full effect.
France’s star player Zinedine Zidane loses his head, gives it to Marco Materazzi. The Cup has been decided on penalties only once before in 1994, when Roberto Baggio, the “Divine Ponytail”, lost the Cup for Italy to Brazil. This is Italy’s first win in over 20 years putting them only one behind Brazil, the current leader with five.
A cool new TV spot for Coca-Cola from the people at Psyop.
“Composers often speak of fitting chords and melodies together, as though sounds were physical objects with geometric shape — and now a Princeton University musician has shown that advanced geometry actually does offer a tool for understanding musical structure.”
A couple exercises in slowed-down audio.
macTV updated yesterday with a huge archive of high quality (many in HD) Apple related videos. I try to stay away from posting about anything Apple here (for fear of an over-saturated blogosphere), but as the company and brand have fast become a cultural staple and show no signs of slowing, this is a cool resource for even those among us who aren’t Mac enthusiasts.
How can the human race survive the next hundred years?
Many of the people responsible for fireworks displays in the US tomorrow honed and showcased their skills last December at the first ever World Pyro Olympics.