Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Manhattan Skyline from the New Museum

Friday, July 11th, 2008

NYC Skyline Panorama

Tonight, between the Gawker Media Meshing situation and dinner, I randomly met up with a friend and checked out sunset from the top of the New Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. I think we got there just at the right time, because the sun was just below the horizon, giving great light. This little panorama is quick and dirty, as you can see, and shot with a 16mm lens. You can see at the edges the distortion is very pronounced, especially where building elements join at the end of one frame into the middle of another frame - the differences in magnification is intense.

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The Jeffzilla Wordle Contentcloud

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Wordle is a service that takes any text or rss feed, and parses the content down into the most important and most used words. It generates all sorts of nifty tag cloud-like graphics. Next step, I wish, would be to get a Wordle wordpress plugin that dynamically generates a real blog tagcloud, but with the cool, randomized Wordle stylings.

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Visual Magnetic Fields - Magnetic Movie

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Coolest video/cg I’ve seen this week. With a combination of science and 3d Animation, Scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory made this nifty movie which brings to life complex magnetic fields. Take a look and read the back story.

Finally, make sure to turn the sound up. In addition to the trippy visuals, the crackle and pop of the animations is worth a listen, and consideration of minimalist sound design. (as is Cloverfield - a whole other blog post in the works…)

 

 

 

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Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas

Monday, May 19th, 2008

London-based artist Miltos Manetas just threw up his latest web creation, JacksonPollock.org. Simple and cool - move your mouse around to draw, click to change colors. Read about the whole thing on DazedDigital.

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