It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!
- Paolo Cirio’s Street Ghosts are life-sized pictures of people found on Google’s Street View, then printed and posted at the same spot where they were taken. Story at Verge and Co.Design. {via @krelnik}
- Matt Busch gives 80s movie posters the zombie treatment. Very fun stuff.
- 11 sounds kids today have probably never heard. Now get off my lawn.
- Maps made of words. Found at Ministry of Type.
- At Street Anatomy: Beautifully illustrated pharma ads by legendary Spanish graphic designer, Enric Huguet.
- Extraordinary! Control the weather in the Rain Room. {via Surly Amy}
- The Art of Chemistry by Andonucci and Robak.
- Playing with genetics. {via Thomas H.}
- The epic continues at Treelobsters with the installments: #411 Gated Community and #412 Unnoticeable.
Scads more after the jump… especially Fraggles!
- The rise and fall of Polaroid: an interview with Christopher Bonanos, author of “Instant”.
- A rare Keaton Music typewriter.
- Excellent mashups: Star Wars and Dr. Seuss. {via Steve D.}
- Your glass of wine could use a mustache.
- Detailed gamer aprons. {via Steve D.}
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Ben Folds Five: “Do It Anyway”
Official Video
featuring The Fraggles
{via Maggie}
from the page
The Official Music Video for “Do It Anyway,” the first track from Ben Folds Five’s much anticipated album THE SOUND OF THE LIFE OF THE MIND…featuring the Fraggles from Jim Henson’s “Fraggle Rock”! Also starring Rob Corddry, Anna Kendrick & Chris Hardwick.
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Ascension – a mechanical flipbook installation
Kinetic artists Mark Rosen and Wendy Marvel created a series of mechanical flipbooks. They stole the show at Maker Faire 2012 with this: they’ve developed FlipBooKit so we can make our own.
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Beam yourself to work
{via Steve D.}
http://youtu.be/z23UeJi_uJ4
from the page
Beam, from Suitable Technologies, is a true remote presence device. Travel instantly to remote locations, with a depth of interaction that makes you (and everyone else) feel as if you’re really there. Key design features:
* 17-inch screen, so your face is human size
* 1.58m (5′ 2″) frame, so your body is human size
* Top speed of 1.5 m/s (3 mph), so you can keep up
* Two wide-angle HD cameras, for full visual awareness
* Six-microphone array with noise reduction and echo cancellation, for full audio awareness
* Powerful built-in speaker, so you will be heard
* Two dual-band radios with proprietary roaming algorithms, for seamless WiFi connectivity
* Industry-standard encryption of all communication
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Featured image is by Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features.
from the page: Visitors walk through an art installation called the Rain Room in The Curve gallery at the Barbican Centre in London. The Rain Room is a 100 square metre field of falling water which visitors are invited to walk into. Sensors detect where visitors are standing, and the rain stops around them, giving them an experience of how it might feel to control the rain.
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