“Time is a concept that can be stretched”
2009-12-22 aggregation
- NY Photos Taken from the Same Spot, Combined Over Time
- Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View
- DustTag – today and tomorrow
an iPhone application designed for graffiti writers that visualizes the motion involved in the creation of a tag - Researchers Advise Cyber Self Defense in the Cloud – PC World Business Center
Security researchers are warning that Web-based applications are increasing the risk of identity theft or losing personal data more than ever before. - GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY
LAM’S
2009-10-15 aggregation
- GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY
- Wave Bubble : A design for a self-tuning portable RF jammer
- LIFE on the Rails: Boxcar Logos
- For 2010, IDC Predicts an Apple iPad and Battles in the Cloud – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
- In The Age Of Realtime, Twitter Is Walter Cronkite
"I understand that a lot of people view Twitter as stupid, and certainly not worth $1 billion dollars. But step back for a second and look at it this way: For much of this argument, I’m just using “Twitter” the way my colleague Steve Gillmor uses it, which is to say, as a word not tied to one brand but meaning the “realtime web.” It doesn’t matter what method we use for this realtime information dissemination, what matters is that it is happening. And this is the future." – MG Siegler, Nov. 27, 2009 - Ever Dream This Man?
Every night throughout the world hundreds of people dream about this face.
GREED
2009-08-16 aggregation
- fontcapture.com
no software to download and install, all you need is a printer and a scanner - THE MOST NOTORIOUS COUNTERFEITER
"There are few criminals pursued with more vigor than those who make their own money. Counterfeiting is considered such a threat to the fabric of the United States that it is—with treason—one of only two criminal offenses named in the Constitution. "… "Albert Talton says he did not have any grand plan in mind when he started his operation. It was just an experiment, "to see if I could do it," he tells me in a letter from prison, a few months after our initial conversation." - Obama’s FCC to enforce ‘net neutrality’
Julius Genachowski, the FCC chairman, told The Hill that his agency will support “net neutrality” and go after anyone who violates its tenets. - The CandyFab 6000
- BANKSY interviewed by Shepard Fairey
Apple Snow Leopard 10.6 Build 10A432 QuickTime X color & contrast inconsistency
Over the holiday, I ran some tests upon realizing that QuickTime on Snow Leopard was presenting all of its content washed out with less overall contrast. Below are the steps I followed while preparing documentation of this issue to submit to a QuickTime product specialist at Apple.
I discovered that QuickTime X on Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Version 10.6 Build 10A432) has significant color and contrast inconsistency across multiple applications.
Could this inconsistency be due to the change in the Mac default system gamma value from 1.8 to 2.2 with Snow Leopard?
The following images are best viewed at original size by clicking on each image to read text. Alternatively view the slideshow here.
Side note: All of the screenshots were taken using Command-Shift-4. I normally use Snapz Pro X to take screenshots which creates files with the sRGB color profile embedded. Because of this, I was unaware that using the OS’s default Command-Shift-4 for screenshots results in a PNG which has an embedded color profile that is defined by the current System Preferences’ Display Color settings. The confusing thing is that, when creating a PNG from Photoshop, the option for embedding the color profile is not a selectable option. However, the System Preferences’ Display Color settings are shown as if they are being included in the file but there is no option to disable it at this point. The user has to first convert the file manually from within Photoshop to the desired color profile, then save the file as a PNG in order to modify the default embedded color profile that is included in PNGs when using Command-Shift-4, if it is needed. This is why there can be little consistency between screenshots taken on multiple computers unless care is taken to make sure that all systems are set up using the exact same color profile or post color profile conversions will need to be carried out.
For all of my tests I set the display color settings in System Preferences to sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
IMAGE #1
IMAGE #1 is the original PSD file (CandyMountainLane.psd) I started out with. It was set to 16bits/Channel but due to the default screenshot PNGs being created at 8bit I changed the PSD to 8bits/Channel for these comparisons. There are no noticeable differences between viewing this image in 8bit or 16bit.
“Are you human?” Object and Urban intervention 2009 by Aram Bartholl
Crossposted from 12ozProphet
“Are you human?” – Urban intervention, Series of hand cut CAPTCHA tags, 60 x 25 cm, 5 mm foam board, spray paint
CAPTCHA codes are publicly available, and each is uniquely generated by a computer program which “knows” the correct response. Although current software is unable to accurately read and understand the codes most humans can. Getting up with CAPTCHA cracks me up. I’ve heard of graff writers flipping tags in reverse to add some confusion to the game, but bombing with a challenge-response test is a new one for sure. Abstract conceptual public art? I also find the reCAPTCHA project very interesting.
Aram Bartholl has been working in Berlin since 1995. In his art work he thematizes the relationships between net data space and every day life. “In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our everyday life? What returns from cyberspace into physical space? How do digital innovations influence our everyday actions?”
2009-07-09 aggregation
- Facebook has acquired FriendFeed
- OS X Process Management: Guide to Activity Monitor
- Manuel Lima at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 5
- Apple Files Patent for Mobile Augmented Reality
- LOVELAND
one million square inches of land in Detroit, Michigan that can be purchased and controlled by people around the world for $1 an inch - Verizon FiOS TV Integrates Facebook and Twitter
- Intel outlines the next-generation ‘reality web’
Intel is working on what it terms an ‘immersive connective experience’ (ICE) where devices will increasingly overlay the digital world onto the real one. - The Cartier Foundation: Graffiti Taxonomy
Evan Roth photographed more than 2,400 graffiti tags in Paris and then cataloged the images by letter. The site holds a selection of tags each containing one of the ten most used letters to illustrate the wide range of styles. The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is presents Born in the Streets—Graffiti, on view from July 7 to November 29, 2009. - DERI Pipes: Open Source, Extendable, Embeddable Web Data Mashups
Inspired by Yahoo’s Pipes, DERI Pipes is an engine and graphical environment for general Web Data transformations and Mashup. Pull in information using RDF, XML, Microformats, JSON or a binary stream and then output it in XML, RDF or JSON. Can publish as a stand-alone site, or be embedded it into an existing application. - MiLi Pro – iPhone, iPod Portable Video Projector
- The Economist: Thinking Space