Spotted this morning at London's Giddyup Coffee in Fortune Park (near the Barbican): this terrific Venn diagram/grill menu. Haven't tried Giddyup's grill, but it's my daily morning coffee, and it is spectacular.
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Federico Babina, the mastermind behind ARCHI-PIX (Parts One and Two) has come up with a fun new series - ARCHICINE – representing iconic works of architecture that have played protagonists on film. We’ve rounded up all the illustrations -check them out after the break!
From Federico Babina. ARCHICINE is a series of illustrations representing the spatial match between film and architectural space. Scenographies imagined, realized and built to tell stories and characters. The architectural space in the film is not just a background but is transformed as an added protagonist. Movies have the ability to transport us to different worlds and lives and let us live and breathe real or fantastic architecture.
The ground in a Plaza de Pio XII, a square in Alicante, Spain has been decorated with a dazzle-paint-like pattern of high contrast wiggly white lines. It has caused seizures in some people with photosensitive epilepsy (20,000 people with epilepsy live in the region) and some elderly people have complained of dizziness while traversing the square. The square is centrally located, and some of its detractors argue that they have to cross it several times a day just to get around town. Here's some of the Google Translate text from the Diario Informacion piece by Alberola Pine:
Perez lives very close to the Plaza de Pio XII "and necessarily go through there every day, which to me is going to cause a problem." This mother does not understand "how the City does not take into account such considerations when designing public spaces." Apart from the problem that the decoration of the square of Pius XII may pose for people with epilepsy, the neighbors are not happier with the outcome of remodeling. "It's a little square bright stripes make you dizzy when you walking "Angel Guerrero noted yesterday, while walking with his wife in this space
In the same terms were expressed Leonardo Plaza and John Smith. "Someone would have to explain what they mean so many marks on the ground, it makes no sense. We liked much what was there before. Also, drop us scares us. "
Manoli, one shopkeeper, criticizing that "there have been games for children, no benches and green spaces absent, when it is assumed that in the city want to encourage this type of space '.
Shardcore writes, "The Tate recently released a 'big data' set of the 70k artworks in their collection. I've been playing with it and finding all sorts of fun to be had. The latest experiment uses the Tate data as a springboard to algorithmically imagine new artworks - 88,577,208,667,721,179,117,706,090,119,168 to be precise."
(that's eighty-eight nonillion, five hundred seventy-seven octillion, two hundred eight septillion, six hundred sixty-seven sextillion, seven hundred twenty-one quintillion, one hundred seventy-nine quadrillion, one hundred seventeen trillion, seven hundred six billion, ninety million, one hundred nineteen thousand, one hundred sixty-eight possible artworks...)
We can imagine machines which spot the items within a representational work (look at Google Goggles, for example) but algorithms which spot the ‘emotions and human qualities’ of an artwork are more difficult to comprehend. These categories capture complex, uniquely human judgements which occupy a space which we hold outside of simple visual perception. In fact I think I’d find a machine which could accurately classify an artwork in this way a little sinister…
The relationships between these categories and the works are metaphorical in nature, allusions to whole classes of human experience that cannot be derived from simply ‘looking at’ the artwork. The exciting part of the Tate data is really the ‘humanity’ it contains, something absolutely essential when we’re talking about art – after all, culture cannot exist without culturally informed entities experiencing it.
It struck me that these are not only representations of existing artworks, but actually the vocabulary and structure required to describe new, as yet un-made, artworks.
This puzzle– a whopping seventeen-foot-long, forty-two-pounder that comes with its own hand truck –is clearly meant to be used for some form of existential penance. If you carry deep-seated hatred for yourself or are planning on departing from your sanity, you might take on the "extra challenge" of a puzzle that only has six colors, not counting black and white. And it's only $194.
A pastor noticed that The Bible was labeled as "fiction" in a Los Angeles area Costco last week. He Tweeted the above photo of the book spurring Costco to publicly apologize. (KTLA)
The Noun Project is a collection of 17,000 icons created by Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov to enable "anything to be communicated visually through symbols." It began as a collection of sketchbook drawings. Mother Jones interviewed Boatman:
MJ: You kept this collection on paper?
EB: Loose pieces of paper. It was very ragtag. It was just very much a concept at this point. And then when I was working at [design firm] Gensler in Santa Monica, I was putting together a lot of presentation boards for clients and I needed a way to communicate graphically—sometimes abstract concepts, sometimes concepts as simple as a bicycle or an airport—and I just couldn't find a library online that could provide me with the content I needed. I talked to a lot of other designers with that same gripe, and so I took this old concept that I had back in college and steered it toward solving this real-world problem. We started as a resource for designers, but very quickly we got a lot of teachers reaching out to us, and people dealing with kids with autism. We realized that being able to communicate an idea through a symbol is powerful for pretty much anyone.
MJ: Why autistic kids?
Sofya Polyakov: A lot of autistic children tend to be visual learners and visual communicators. We started to learn about this because of the Noun Project. One of the things that caretakers or parents will do is put together a visual storyboard of your day. It'll have a symbol for get out of bed, brush your teeth, have breakfast, put on clothes, put on your shoes, to help them get ready in the morning, for example. For one of our Iconathons we worked with the Boston schools—they have a lot of children with special needs, so they'll use visual clues as well. For a child navigating a new school, having symbols for places like the cafeteria or gym or your classroom area is very helpful.
The project, called Long Distance Art, incorporates satellite feeds and robots, acting as an extension of the artist’s hand around the globe. While Kiessling himself was drawing and painting in Vienna, the robots physically mimicked him in London and Berlin.
The "Weird Faces Vending Machine" doesn't muck around with commentary on the nature of the work of art, commodification of "culture," or unpacking the universal human condition. This small installation is by Matthias Dorfelt, or Mokafolio. It charges your credit card $3, tells you that it "[LIKES] THE WAY YOU WAIT" among other digital burbles, and eventually produces a unique print of computer generated faces, which would appear to be hand drawn and which are in fact adorable. In short, it does a tidy job questioning the value of the work of art and the commodification of cultural artifacts. (The universal human condition may be hinted at vis a vis the array of odd faces? Jury's out.)
Sisters Jill Watt of Dapper Toad and Lorna Watt of Knits For Life teamed up to turn branches into arms and tentacles with this fantastic yarn bombed squid tree.
Norwegian network NRK plans air to five consecutive hours of knitting live this Nov. 1. The needling is the public broadcasting company’s latest foray into the world of slow TV, and arrives after the success of still-camera broadcasts of titillating train travel and seductive ferry crossings. In February, the network even aired a 12-hour look at a fire being built and maintained.
The knitting show might manage to be even more exciting than those, as it showcases the attempts of eight Norwegians to break the world's record for fastest conversion of wool from sheep to sweater. Over the course of five hours, the team will shear a sheep, spin the wool into yarn, then knit a sweater, all in an attempt to beat the current record of four hours and 51 minutes held by Australians.
NRK project manager says the show, which will begin airing at 7:30 ...
barlevg writes "Analyzing hand-prints found in cave sites, an archaeologist from Penn State University has concluded that roughly 75% of all ancient cave art was painted by women. Previously it was thought that neolithic cave paintings were made mostly by men, perhaps to chronicle their kills. But an analysis of the relative lengths of fingers in hand stencils found on cave walls suggests that it was mostly prehistoric women--not men--who created these works."
ITP students Christina Carter and Jess Jiyoung Jung want to help you improve your ability to get sushi into your mouth with their deliciously engaging two player board game called "Chopsticking," find them on Science Avenue in Zone D!
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Sisters Jill Watt of Dapper Toad and Lorna Watt of Knits For Life teamed up to turn branches into arms and tentacles with this fantastic yarn bombed squid tree. 
Tumblr user izacless shared this cleverly contemporary take on the traditional sampler motif.
I haven't eaten at a KFC since it was called Kentucky Fried Chicken. But now I want to take my kids there just so I can do this. 
(via Bits & Pieces)
ITP students Christina Carter and Jess Jiyoung Jung want to help you improve your ability to get sushi into your mouth with their deliciously engaging two player board game called "Chopsticking," find them on Science Avenue in Zone D!
