This is beautiful and awesome.
For a really cool experience open the video full-screen, sit back, and relax…
Thanks Carter for sending my way!
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This is like urban design porn. If only LA were like this…(sigh)…
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The Spanish have been doing it for centuries–mixing cultures across time and heritage. The Alhambra, the Mosque of Cordoba, the Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca. Why not do it in the most modern of settings?
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center features the MareNostrum: a supercomputer housed in an . . . → Read More: World’s Most Beautiful Computer FILED UNDER: Pictures & Videos, View TAGGED: architecture, design, science COMMENTS: 28 comments - (Comments are closed)The University of Arizona presents a well-produced series of engaging lectures on popular cosmology: the origins of the universe, black holes, dark matter, the big bang, and the search for (and understanding of) life in the universe. It’s all free on iTunes U–a fantastic source for free audio and video courses online. >> Link: Cosmic . . . → Read More: Cosmic Origins: Birth, Life, and Death of the Universe
From Information Aesthetics: Visual Budget is a cutting-edge data-visualization web site. It explains all the complicated ins and outs of the US Federal Budget using interactive charts and motion graphics. It is a tool that lets citizens like you and me understand this important issue, armed with the latest most comprehensive facts . . . → Read More: Visual Budget – an Interactive Guide to the Federal Budget FILED UNDER: Learn, Pictures & Videos, Think, View TAGGED: current events, design, information design, politics COMMENTS: 30 comments - (Comments are closed)
Super cool technology that lets you know what you’re looking at from 30,000 feet: The idea is that, if you’re online and in the air (and the Mondo Window guys have been blowing my mind with the technical, infrastructural and business models that allow this to happen), you can access the various . . . → Read More: What’s that you see from your airplane window? FILED UNDER: Explore, Pictures & Videos, Read, View TAGGED: airplanes, information design, technology COMMENTS: 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
Many photos of Tiananmen Square overlayed to impressive effect. This is brilliant art–visually arresting while intellectually stimulating. Switzerland-based Corinne Vionnet is our guide to the world’s most famous landmarks, monuments millions have visited before. Her art is created not by acrylic, oil, or watercolor, each piece is made by combining hundreds of tourist photos . . . → Read More: Hundreds of Tourist Photos Woven into One FILED UNDER: Imagine, Pictures & Videos, View TAGGED: art, photography, travel COMMENTS: Comments are closedThis video is brilliant. Its video and audio reinforce each other, its content engages, and it makes you smile. Plus it’s genius marketing for a book. By the time it’s over, I want to go out and buy “Where Good Ideas Come From.” FILED UNDER: Cool Sites, Pictures & Videos, Think TAGGED: books, design, ideas COMMENTS: Comments are closedThis is pretty genius. I just learned that Google is hosting a world-wide science fair this year. Thought about entering, but you have to be under 18 to submit. Looks cool though! And makes me wonder…how many things can Google do?! >> Link: Google Global Science Fair 2011 Truth is stranger than fiction, and this is proof: a Meg Whitman staffer retweeted an endorsement link. Only Twitter’s 140 character limit cut off the last character of the URL, leading readers not to a message from a sheriff–but to a Japanese man in pink tutu and lingerie playing the bass. “Huh?” you ask. Me . . . → Read More: Cross-Dressing Japanese YouTube Music: Only in a California Governor’s Race 
It’s always fun when I spot a “SALVO” in the news! This one from the home page of ESPN: FILED UNDER: Pictures & Videos, Salvo's Thoughts TAGGED: Salvo spotting COMMENTS: Comments are closed |
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