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Jérôme Murat

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Thursday 14 December, 2006 at 6:24 am. It's been filed in the Art/Design + Performance category. {3 Comments}

Another popular video making its way around the internet. Far be it for me to stand in the way. Jérôme is a French mime artist.

Complete Mozart Scores Available Online

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Wednesday 13 December, 2006 at 6:45 am. It's been filed in the Internet + Music category. {Share Your Thoughts}

“We hope we will be able to convince other people besides us to present their original materials online as well.”

Freesound Project Mass Recording

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Wednesday 13 December, 2006 at 3:18 am. It's been filed in the Internet + Sound category. {3 Comments}

The Freesound Project — fairly well-known in the Creative Commons community — is a collaborative database of sounds contributed by users under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. Freesound deals only in sounds — for instance the most popular downloads at the moment include recordings of a heart beat and a thunder storm. They’re paired [...]

Water Cube Opens To Media

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Monday 11 December, 2006 at 11:28 pm. It's been filed in the Architecture + Art/Design + Photography + Science + Sport + World category. {2 Comments}

The Beijing National Aquatics Centre (the “Water Cube”), will host the aquatic events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Last week the facility opened to the media.

Jay Greenberg

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Monday 11 December, 2006 at 10:22 pm. It's been filed in the Music + Performance category. {Share Your Thoughts}

“How do you react when you encounter an early compositional gift so extraordinary that you can’t even begin to comprehend it?”

Andy Wilson @ Microsoft Research

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Monday 11 December, 2006 at 8:56 pm. It's been filed in the Interactive Design + Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Andy Wilson’s work in human-computer interaction is the stuff dreams are made of.

Martian Sunset

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Saturday 09 December, 2006 at 6:36 am. It's been filed in the Astronomy + Photography + Science + Technology + Universe category. {Share Your Thoughts}

(image, desktops)

Soviet Military Prison Hospitality

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Saturday 09 December, 2006 at 5:57 am. It's been filed in the Travel + World category. {Share Your Thoughts}

“This ‘hotel’ proudly bills itself as ‘unfriendly, unheated, uncomfortable and open all year round’. But that’s the point.”

Swivel

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Saturday 09 December, 2006 at 5:23 am. It's been filed in the Economics + Environment + Information Design + Internet + Math category. {2 Comments}

Think you have a brilliant idea about how sunlight relates to bear reproduction relates to milk prices? Me too. Put your data where your mouth is.

Gregory Colbert: Ashes and Snow

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Saturday 09 December, 2006 at 5:07 am. It's been filed in the Art/Design + Environment + Film/TV + Photography + Wildlife + World category. {3 Comments}

“For more than a decade, Gregory Colbert has traveled the world and collaborated with 40+ species to create “Ashes and Snow,” the ground-breaking exhibition of more than 100 photographs and three films (…) His remarkable sepia-toned images explore the relationship between people and animals, glimpsing a world in which humans live in profound harmony with the rest of the animal kingdom.”