treehugger:
New website lets you animate Google streetview images along your planned route, creating a hyperlapse video of trips!
This is fabulously gorgeous.
For probably as long as Street View has been available, I’ve dreamed of being able to use Google’s imagery to construct a driving simulation, on the fly, through any locale you choose. Like Gran Turismo on the Playstation, only as an open-ended, sandbox world.
Looks like these guys have it close. I wonder what it would take to make it “playable”…
(Cue nostalgia for the old college house where I spent one hot summer playing GT on the PS1, for the experience of moving smoothly through space at very high velocities, for the feeling of mastery and control over one’s surroundings.)
(Previously.)
(via crookedindifference)
BeetBox is a simple instrument that allows users to play drum beats by touching actual beets.
(via BeetBox | Scott Made This)
new-aesthetic:
“The Cloud is architecture that travels with the dog, a second skin that communicates the uniqueness of any given Chihuahua’s body and temperament. The puffed, bespoke skin of the Cloud translates the movement, speed, and personality of the Chihuahua into a pattern of undulations.”
Architecture for Dogs
new-aesthetic:
“This is Zemarai Elali, an electrical engineer in Afghanistan working one of his five autonomous, unmanned drones made from bamboo.”
Design for the New Normal | superflux
the Americans are proud that they are hovering in their helicopters and likewise, we are proud to shoot them
everydayepiphanies:
“the meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.” - antoine saint-exupery
bmichael:
capitalnewyork:
“We’re going to Mars. In fact, we’ll be there on Saturday.”
ARTIST TOM SACHS PREVIEWS HIS MISSION TO MARS
…all the vehicles and workstations have fully stocked bars as well as guns. The liquor, he explained, wasn’t about getting drunk, but the sociability that comes with drinking, the conviviality but also the meeting of minds. The guns, on the other hand, are a reminder that exploration has always gone hand in hand with militaristic domination.
“It’s the colonialist thing, of making people see it your way with a shotgun and a bible, so this is a colonialist gesture. We’re going to Mars not just for science, but like a colonizer, to bring back the gold or silver, do a germ exchange without realizing it, understand how colonialism changes the host country and invading country. If there’s profit, we’re gonna take it, and I feel that force is a strong component of that.
“I wouldn’t want to say we’re purely altruistic, and the guns say that more than anything. Plus the Russians actually brought guns when they went to space, and they used them when they crash-landed in the Ural Mountains. We have two guns here in the L.E.M. to keep the astronauts honest with each other. There’s a reason they send three astronauts. With two people there’s your way and my way. You like the Red Sox and I like the Yankees and one of us has to die.”
wwwtxt:
Do you think that sound could have greater importance than visuals in certain cyberspaces? In all cyberspaces? ☯90NOV
A Nerd of Advice - Episode 1 - Small Talk
anerdofadvice:
Let’s say you’re at a party, and you find out that someone’s favorite show is The Real Housewives, or I don’t even know what people watch… But, it’s okay to ask questions!
Be like:
- Who’s in that?
- Oh yeah?
- How long has that been on?
- Why do you like it?
- Is this something that you watch alone, or do you share it with friends?
