Roar.
The nifty folks over at the IDEO Toy Lab have released their newest creation, Balloonimals. It seems targeted towards children, but let’s be honest, I was showing it to an awe-inspired crowd at a bar last night.
Generation Loss by David Elliott shows what a JPEG image can look like after saving it 600 times, each time slightly increasing the compression.(via Danny)
Oh, Hello describes the process of working with Microsoft and how the concepts came to life in these fantastic visions for the future.
(via tipodgraphic)
A friend from my days on the security team at work messaged me a while back to show me this project he was working on where he was using procedural models in Javascript to render a monster-like object in realtime. In short, he was showing an example of something you could do with Chrome’s new Javascript rendering engine that simply wasn’t practical due to performance limitations in most browsers at the time, but what was funny about it was how he described it while we were chatting:
Dean: but I suck … I don’t really know what I’m doing so it’s not so good.
Dean is smart. Crazy smart. Maybe now that the project is featured in the new Chrome Experiments page he’ll begin to realize how awesome he is. Nice work, dude!
“Turn the computer off and go outside. Go hang with your friends. Make lots of new friends. Count your blessings. Smile like an idiot. Don’t think too much. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t take life too seriously. Don’t pay attention to a word I say.”
“A sensor turns off the light when an open book is placed on the shelf. When the book is picked up again, the light automatically turns on. Lili Lite also has a switch to turn the light on and off manually.”
(via bauldoff)
While texting with Stephen earlier...
- Steve: One of the single ladies dancers reportedly a dude
- Me: Uh. My world is ruined.
- Steve: maybe so. but fuck a dude can dance
“No way, dude. Those things creep me out. Squish it…
I don’t know with a napkin or something!”
(via carolynannahall)
ohouse: made me think of bons. (are you reading this?)
Yes.
Free Paintings in NYC Tomorrow
Bren Bataclan will be leaving free (as in beer) paintings around the city tomorrow (Friday, March 6th) as part of his national Smile Project. Follow him on Twitter to get updates on where to pick ‘em up!
“Evolved individuals know that people who are not intuitive can be dangerous to work with, since they are guided solely by the current appearance of things that are in reality, changing. Evolved individuals seek out others who have intuition and vision - a form of intelligence that comes from cultivating the instincts, observing the direction of change, apprehending the evolution of ideas.”
Lao Tzu (via W+K)
Free Museum Admission This Weekend
Two more weekends left to enjoy this Bank of America promotion, which gives cardholders free admission to select museums on the first weekend of every month. The final opportunities are March 7-8 (this weekend) and April 4-5.
Here’s a list of the museums participating in Boston and New York.
Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
Harvard Museum of Natural History (Cambridge)New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Jewish Museum
New York Hall of Science
International Center of Photography
Bronx Zoo
New York Aquarium
American Museum of Natural History
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
If I could be any character/thing in this movie, it would be one of the motorcycles that the machines use to pursue the resistance. Probably the most badass creation in the movie series.
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“Right? Delightful!” - Jess
A old one, but anything that makes you smile these days should be up front and center.
