December 2007
Tentacle chandeliers →
Artist Adam Wallacavage makes these gorgeous, tentacled “Pulsatilla” chandeliers — presently on exhibit at New York’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Link (via JWZ)
Fantastic Illustration by Jacek Yerka →
An entire bedtime story could easily be crafted by simply looking at one of these creatific works of imagination.
Beatnix: Beatles "performing" Stairway to Heaven... →
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)
Imagining the Recursive City: Explorations in... →
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.
Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive... →
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
Phuket: 3D City Map in Second Life →
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.
A Book Store Made in Heaven →
DHTML 3D Photo Gallery →
Displays photos as an interactive 3D-looking display. Open source
Include a Chart in a Webpage with Google Chart API →
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...