For the love of Her
(via Dropping Out of College Into Life - The New York Times)
I loved college, but it’s not for everybody. There are so many ways to grow and to learn, and traditional universities don’t offer most of them!
(via Dropping Out of College Into Life - The New York Times)
I loved college, but it’s not for everybody. There are so many ways to grow and to learn, and traditional universities don’t offer most of them!
(via Really Long Distance. | This American Life)
Producer Miki Meek tells the story of a phone booth in Japan that attracts thousands of people who lost loved ones in the 2011 tsunami and earthquake. A Japanese TV crew from NHK Sendai filmed people inside the phone booth, whose phone is not connected to anything at all.
Oof.
(via You Must Solve a Puzzle to Turn Every Page in This Beautiful Wooden Book)
Ah! Look at this beautiful codex!
(via b3ta.com challenge: videogame art)
Artists combine famous works of art and videogames. There are too many good ones.
The gallery space includes a small cinema, lockers, a spa, and a boxing ring for free talks and drop in tutorials. Members of the collective will be circling the Art Gym floor as creative personal trainers, assisting you in the development of your own art making workout.
(via Flex Your Creative Muscles at the Art Gym | The Creators Project)
Art gym! It’s harder to hurt yourself at the art gym!
Moving between the sublime and the ridiculous, The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie’s Botanarium is a fictional account of a sea voyage set in a parallel universe that references the historical expedition of British botanist Joseph Banks to New Zealand in the 1700s. On the perilous journey, Banks and his crew encounter treacherous butterflies, plant-worshipping religious zealots, boiling oceans, cannibalistic sausages and perhaps even Uncle Bertie himself.
How delightful does this seem? I’ve been re-watching Flight of the Conchords, so I feel quite primed for this.
Various awesome techno-displays in the original Star Wars (1977)
Oh yes.
Christian Clozier’s Gmebaphone musical instrument, 1975 (via tsugi.fr)
<3
Zach Gage, 2016-2048, 16,777,216 Colors, About 32 years, Custom Software, Recycled Hardware
Generation Lamp is a degenerative lamp that lives for a generation (in this case, nearly 32 years).
Generation Lamp was born on 2/7/2016 at 3:44am EST and will die on 12/31/2047 at midnight EST.
Over its lifetime, Generation Lamp will flip through all 16,777,216 possible colors in the RGB hexadecimal spectrum (#FFFFFF to #000000), at the rate of 1 per minute.
Generation Lamp is designed to be displayed in your home 24/7 on an old disused smartphone.You can have Generation Lamp in your house! All you need is an old iOS device. So proud to know Zach. So psyched he makes such great work.
(This Lego-Modded Glue Gun is A Handheld 3D Printer) Basically, everything is 3D printer.