httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F9O8YV_36Q&feature=player_embedded
(Video is loud but sound is unnecessary)
In Human Contact, the Academics have these subtle and powerful materials that they use for all sorts of stuff — materials that change volume, texture, or color, for instance.
I’m not really making that stuff up. I’m just extrapolating.
Tron vs. Saul Bass from Hexagonall on Vimeo.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA&feature=player_embedded
I think Mike Pondsmith would have some unpleasant things to say about it, but these amazing pictures of the Paralympics don’t seem to be lacking in humanity.
World Air Traffic in 24 hours from Clément Joubert on Vimeo.
Watch as the day progresses and planes leave in the morning, around the world. Consider the effects this has on world culture and genetic variety.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg&feature=player_embedded
Very clever.
Now, what I’d really like to see is a total, anarchic proliferation of publishing. Who’s with me?
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZGZZlM-AJo
I’m pretty sure the world is full of people like this guy, Mark Hogancamp, Henry Darger, and Matthew/C++. It’s only in this age of astounding communication that we can get these glimpses into their experience through their art.
(Thanks, Jason Corley for the link)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk&feature=player_embedded
This is really charming, in part because of the fanboyish naïveté of the interviewer, and in part because it still applies so well. I’d be proud to have that kid around. It would be nice to still have John around, too, I think.
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1va9Jdt7g&feature=player_embedded
There’s always time for art. Especially when you’re stuck somewhere.
Lee “Rusty” Mothes has been working on depicting New Island, a tiny fictional place in the Indian Ocean, for many years now. What he makes is quite lovely.
