Seventy Seven.

[richmond77]

I have a thing for maps this week.

Only recently found out you can completely, near-limitlessly, customise google maps (either live or in code). There’s something strangely satisfying about it too. Lots of user created styles on the Snazzy Maps website too.

Hey look at that, a map to match our blog theme.

- Adam

[richmond77]

This is the “perfect road trip”, mathematically engineered by Randal S. Olson. Perfect as in it is optimised to go via all 48 states, and take in 50 of the most major landmarks chosen by Tracy Staedter.

It’s created using genetic algorithms. You can see the evolution process in the GIF above. The still image was the optimum outcome

- Adam

[richmond77]

It’s like the string project at Trinity, but with added trippyness.

Aidan

[richmond77]

Ever wondered what happens inside the pneumatic transport tubes they use in banks and hospitals? I did, so I put a camera in it. Reminds me of Sliders. 

- Aidan

[richmond77]

Chris Natt has created simulated mines to help train deminers - responding in a way similar to real explosives they give trainees a chance to accidentally detonate a mine without potentially losing a limb. (link) (via)

- Aidan 

[richmond77]

- Aidan

[arpeggia]

Slinky like light pattern in the blackness of moonlight sky produced by a time exposure of the light tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter as it takes off into the dark sky, Anacostia, MD, US, 1949

Photo by Andreas Feininger - LIFE archive 

See more LIFE posts here.

[richmond77]

Kudos to that.

-Adam

[richmond77]

One of the students I have been critiquing at LCA over the past year just held a blindfolded event - Imagined Heights - at a local gallery. It was perceptionally intense, full of curious little wonders and was all deep fried in mystery. Here's some footage of the pre/post experience interviews, shot and edited by Charlie Dixon in conjunction with Envision. Good stuff.

- Adam

[richmond77]

Matt from work showed me this, and it's pretty damned cool. (link)

- Aidan

[richmond77]

HOLY CRAP. - Aidan

[richmond77]

NUKEMAP

Curious to see how much of your city would be destroyed by a nuclear weapon? Well now you can find out! (via)

- Aidan

[robbgodshaw]

Computer Vision constantly measures a red Siamese Fighting Fish, displaying its dimensions on a tablet.

Completed for Golan Levin’s Interactive Art and Computational Design course at Carnegie Mellon.

[richmond77]

This is quite frankly, perfect.

- Adam

[richmond77]

Ever feel like you need some more man-points? Try shooting at your wife's face. Just don't forget to make her hold the bulletproof glass up first.

Oh, and in case you are wondering - the fair lady in this video gets man-points too.

- Adam 

[fuckyeahmedicalstuff]

OB/GYNE Style (Psy - Gangnam Style hospital parody)

Let’s take a break from being a serious blog for just a moment. This is too good not to share. Seriously.  

[richmond77]

- Aidan

[richmond77]

Daan Roosegaarde plans to work with Dutch civil engineers to implement a bunch of new, creative safety devices on the country's roads - including LED lights powered by the wind created by passing cars and glow in the dark paint that tells you when the road is icy. (link) (via)

- Aidan

[richmond77]

Comments recommend using a smaller, stubby screw driver to put less strain on the lock mechanism, lacking a car though. Maybe Adam would like to try it? (link) (via) - Aidan

[richmond77]

After Aidan's hiccup yesterday, I'm cutting this fine with 2 minutes to go until midnight. I dropped by my local venue ENJOY Art Space (Leeds, UK) tonight, to have a look at a sound installation. Simply put, the mac had a visual input much like a bar graph on which you could mix/create electronic sounds. Very experimental, but interestingly a recording of the night will be aired on a radio station/podcast by MACBA in Barcelona.

Apologies for the awful camera phone photo, and I will edit this to include artist names as soon as I can get hold of them. Busy night.

- Adam