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December 2007

Tentacle chandeliers → feeds.boingboing.net


Artist Adam Wallacavage makes these gorgeous, tentacled “Pulsatilla” chandeliers — presently on exhibit at New York’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Link (via JWZ)

Dec 21, 2007
Fantastic Illustration by Jacek Yerka → picturesinn.com

An entire bedtime story could easily be crafted by simply looking at one of these creatific works of imagination.

Dec 20, 2007
Dec 19, 2007
Beatnix: Beatles "performing" Stairway to Heaven video mashup → feeds.boingboing.net

This superb video mashup from The Beatnix takes fuzzy footage of the Beatles fuzzy footage recreating the Beatles in concert and seamlessly converts it to a pleasepleaseme-esque rendition of Stairway to Heaven. John Scalzi promises it’ll make your head explode and he’s not far wrong. Link (via Making Light)

Dec 19, 2007
Imagining the Recursive City: Explorations in Urban Simulacra → digitalurban.blogspot.com

An essay that explores recursion of societies within societies in light of the digital age where cities are malleable spaces that are manipulated on computers.

Dec 13, 2007
Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World, Working Paper No. 125 → digitalurban.blogspot.com

This paper focuses on the virtual city in software, presenting speculations about how such cities are moving beyond the desktop to the point where they are rapidly becoming the desktop itself. But a desktop with a difference, a desktop that is part of the

Dec 13, 2007
Phuket: 3D City Map in Second Life → digitalurban.blogspot.com

Digital Urban shares a video of their 3D dataset of Phuket. Most interesting to note is the ability to “scroll” through the map data instead of having to display the entire map - thus saving space.

Dec 13, 2007
A Book Store Made in Heaven → thecoolhunter.net
Dec 12, 2007
DHTML 3D Photo Gallery → dhteumeuleu.com

Displays photos as an interactive 3D-looking display. Open source

Dec 12, 2007
Include a Chart in a Webpage with Google Chart API → feeds.feedburner.com

We have been waiting so long for Google Chart API. Google has finally released Google Charts API, which returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.

You can include a Chart API image in a webpage by embedding a URL within an <img> tag. When the webpage is displayed in a browser the Chart API renders the image within the page.

Dec 9, 2007
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