Category Archives: art

Fighting Trousers

I’m always so happy to see one of my people* doing what we do best. (Courtesy Judd.) * According to my wife, the following people are “my people”: Jews, Geeks, Lesbians (?), Punks.

Embedded Order

OK, This Is The Point Where Things Get Weird

This is a Playstation game that uses your actual environment as a place to hide digital game pieces. You interact with them by doing stuff in the real world. The Shock:Shirts I just had printed do a little bit of this in the opposite direction: they give a URL to your phone via QR code, [...]

Augmenting Reality To Make It Less Commercial

Unlogo Intro from Jeff Crouse on Vimeo. Now, imagine that you’ve got this running in your glasses. Edit: This project is up on Kickstarter!

Last Chance to Order a Shock:Shirt

Thanks to everyone who’s ordered a Shock:Shirt so far! The shirt will go to press on Thursday, so if you’ve been thinking about getting one for yourself or someone else you think will want to alarm their co-workers, order quick like a robot bunny! Size (remember that they’re a little tight) S $20.00 M $20.00 [...]

Marain — the Alphabet of the Culture

Look what Daniel Solis did! It’s a font of the brush version of Marain, the language used by The Culture! This is what Marain looks like when it’s not brushed: I’m particularly excited about this as I’m working on the Languages chapter of Human Contact right now. I’ve got all the parts for Kepho-Rn, the [...]

Snowbird — First Human-Powered Ornithopter

Almost every ornithopter I’ve seen has been clunky and mechanical. This one moves like a heron instead. Now… imagine that this was a place with less gravity or thicker air…

Blade Runner, Laid Flat on a Giant Cube

BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.

Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind

There’s an earlier, crappier version of this, and a later, better edit, and I don’t know which one this is. But man, this movie’s good, and the comic is even more wonderful in the ways you’d guess. I think it’s probably still too scary for my niece, who’s excited about Totoro and the nonscary parts [...]

Pioneer 1

I’m really excited to get to see this. $30000 of funding made this entire series (of which $27k+ has been raised — if you like it, donate!). This is the future of media, everyone. Artists making money making art. I hope it works. I might just fire up Kickstarter to make sure I can afford [...]