Ok Go's WTF

Visiting with my good friend Jenn of Seriously vs. Funny Haha, and we started in on some Ok Go videos, of which I had not seen before.  The WTF video is awesome, and some people have even been playing with making their own version of the code on Processing, the band even had their own programmer (Jonathan Bobrow)  create an app so they could create their own version of the video.  I downloaded, but it doesn't exclude the green background like in the real thing.  I think I will have to do a bit more research, and figure out how to do that in Processing - I'm sure it can be done, just might take me a few train rides.

Water repellant

I'm generally quite fascinated with the process of making something waterproof, which I generally attribute to leaky boots in the snow.  I found this on Core77 today, and must look into it a bit more.  What is this 'super water repellant' stuff made out of?  And how is applied, and most importantly where can I get some.

Material Science makes Yahoo!?

Today I found this article on Yahoo!'s front page. A new lattice structure of metal created to make ultra light materials from the researchers of HRL Research Laboratories, The University of California at Irvine, and the California Institute of Technology .  It is certainly nice to see something AWESOME instead of the lives of celebrities int the headlines.  I would love to know if other people are interested in this, and how our collective knowledge would be effected if this is the news we were given?

Art Birds

I picked up the book 'Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution' by David Rothenberg today at the lovely Ben McNally bookshop on Bay in Toronto.  In reading it on the long train ride back, I have learned that there is a little bird called the Bowerbird, that makes assemblage art in order to attract a mate.  What the best part is, each type of bowerbird makes a unique shape, and prefers different colours and materials for decoration.  What a wonderful thing to learn on a rainy Monday.

Less Human?

If you only want to smell less human all the time - now you can sweat perfume...   In the research phases at the moment, the health implications are questionable, but would it be any worse than most 'vitamins'?  For more info, check out Swallowable Parfum.  Thanks Springwise for the heads up.

Blah...

I've been feeling a bit of internet fatigue lately.  All of the amazing things I feel I've seen them already.  Even the books I've been reading lately seem lame.  Guess its time to branch out and start looking elsewhere.  If anyone has any blogs or book suggestions, let me know....

What it looks like in my head

As I have asked my students to purchase fabric that they believe represents them, I too thought I should do the same.  I was at the beloved Emeline & Annabelle's the other day - and Em thought there was one fabric that reminded her of me... and I guessed quite correctly what she thought

Its Jay McCarroll's fabric from the collection Habitat.  Quite apt for what goes on in my head; absolute chaos, in weird inelegant lines, poor digitization resulting in weird pixilation.  I like it, so I bought some in the pink and grey colouration (the shade orange is absolutely horrendous, and is a visual atrocity, which is an assault on my design feelings).  And then I saw this today on Dexigner, highly amusing, and is how I wished the structure of my thoughts were. I will have to badly Photoshop myself in sometime in the near future, and pretend I have great structure and foresight, if only through wishful thinking.