“ZYGOTE is a lightweight inflated ball, illuminated from within, that responds to pressure applied to its surface. Interacting with the ball is simple: punch it, bounce it, squeeze it, or tap it and the ball’s internal LEDs react instantaneously.”
Centripetal Notion// archive
You are at the archive for the August, 2007
On the Brain, Nonlocality
Give enough of a tug and you can stretch outside your body, at least enough to induce a nonlocal perspective. Think solar flares, jet lightning, Wooly Willy …
Clara Rockmore on Theremin
The theremin was invented in 1919, consists of two oscillators and two antennas, and was the first musical instrument designed to be played without actually being touched.
Clara Rockmore was born in 1911, was a child prodigy on the violin, and is widely considered the most accomplished theremin performer ever.
Rosemarie Fiore: Vintage Video Game Long-Exposure Photography
“These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one frame of film, I captured complex patterns not normally seen by the eye.”
Coke Happiness Factory: The Movie
W+K/Psyop bring a sequel to last year’s beautiful Happiness Factory advertisement for Coca-Cola. This time around it’s 3 minutes long, apparently clips of it will appear as TV spots which plug Coke’s website to watch the full thing.
Psi Hoops
(videos)
Spidernethewood
The structure is built in the middle of foliage. As plant growth continues, pressure on the netted walls increases and the structure remains intact — strengthened, in fact, at least visually.
Perseid Meteor Shower
Tomorrow night, Sunday, August 12, around 9:00 pm (in your local time zone), this year’s Perseid meteor shower will be starting to peak. These meteors are considered “earthgrazers”: they will appear on the horizon and skim long and colorful overhead. By 2 am Monday morning their rate might be up to dozens an hour, climaxing around dawn at more than one a minute.
Beowulf
This movie looks sick. Using motion capture the actors’ movements are recorded, including eye-lid flutters via electrooculography, enabling the entire movie to be live acted yet completely computer animated. It will be simultaneously released in traditional theaters and IMAX 3D. (…)
Opens November 16.
Too Darn Hot
No, it’s not your imagination, or latent global warming anxiety/guilt. OK maybe a little of the latter, but it is damn hot outside — at least here in the Southeastern US. With heat indexes in excess of 110 degrees Fahrenheit it’s important to keep cool.
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