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Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour

The Victoria & Albert Museum features a wonderful photography exhibition. Grab some coffee and peruse the multiple galleries:
At twilight, the colour and quality of light go through rapid and dramatic changes. For photographers, who are highly attuned to the subtleties of light, this is a particularly significant and poignant time. The artists in the […]

Rhapsody in Blue

George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, performed in 1924: Part 1, Part 2
This is the original recording of Gershwin’s masterpiece, what may surprise many people is that it is an acoustic recording not electric one. This record was released soon after the piece was first performed and was soon replaced by a much more common electrically […]

Tetris: From Russia with Love

Tetris (google video)
A hard to find documentary about Tetris and its creator Alexey Pajitnov. Also covers the rivalaries between Nintendo and Atari and the absurdities of buying copyrights for software from a country that doesn’t believe in property, much less intellectual property. Ultimately, a great documentary about a very important game.

Net_Dérive - the city as instrument

Net_Dérive
Participants are given a kind of scarf with a mobile phone in each end and off they go to explore the neighborhood. One of the phones takes pictures every 20 secs and collects sounds, the other talks to the GPS (also in the scarf) and to the server inside the gallery space. On a radar […]

Water photography

A collection of Christiane Zschommler photographs

Kapitaal

Kapitaal - “a brilliant vision of the world stripped bare of everything except corporate identities and signage”
from coudal

Acoustic mirrors

The Channel Communication Amplifier project.  Wikipedia on the original acoustic mirrors in Denge, England.
Lise Autogena’s Sound Mirrors Project is inspired by the derelict acousic mirrors at Denge, England, it aims to create two new sound mirrors on the coast of England and France which will enable people on either side of the Channel to speak […]

Michel Gondry - a small collection

I’ve had this post in the queue for a few months now, but wasn’t ever able to get around to finding more videos by Michel Gondry (1) (2). If you know of any others to add, post in the comments and I’ll add it to the main post. For now: enjoy!
Music Videos
Daft Punk […]

Substrate

Substrate: “Lines likes crystals grow on a computational substrate. A simple perpendicular growth rule creates intricate city-like structures.”  Make sure to […]

Subway design worldwide

Metroart - an overview of about 40 metro systems across the globe

Courtesy of digg

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