This image of our friend electricity was so neat I had to share! Phil McGrew took out this photo in a single 20-second exposure during one of the recent thunderstorms in beautiful San Francisco.
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150 Billion Pixels, 1 Billion Stars
Ok, have a look at this image — if you click on it, it gets really, really big: That's our Milky Way. The image below here represents the material within the white square on the left — a star-forming region called G305 to astronomers and astrophysicists — again, a click makes it bigger: That cutaway [...]
Read MoreDISCO BALL HELMET!
Back in my undergrad days, I used to front a band… Oh, it was glorious, we had a blast, and the guys are all pro musicians now. Another crazy picture of me with hair: We had so much fun!!! I used to wear those crazy shirts at gigs at the bars in town that were [...]
Read MoreAwesome Glo NightLight from ThinkGeek!
Our master safety ninja Erich Friend sent a link to this great toy from ThinkGeek's Geek Kids section – the Glo Nightlight with Glowing Balls! Ok, I'm not 3-7 years old (well, perhaps mentally most days) but I want one of these! Daphne, when are we getting matching Glo NightLights?!?!?! Check out this video – [...]
Read MoreTuesday Morning Face Rocking
Fresh from Jeff Waful's FOH Super Lighting Cam comes this very sick version of The Bottom Half from the Fox Theatre in Oakland, CA on March 17, 2012. Good morning, world!!! Have a Tuesday Morning FACE ROCKING courtesy of Umphrey's McGee!
Read MoreLuminous Field – A Projected Reality in Chicago
You might have been to Chicago, and you might have seen Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate. But you've never seen Cloud Gate in Chicago like this before… Luftwerk is the firm who designed and coordinated this work — a husband/wife team of Sean Gallero and Petra Bachmaier. From Frame Mag's website: Luminous Field comprises of 10 video [...]
Read MoreInteractive Light at Miami-Dade Government Center
Ivan Toth Depeña has made some pretty incredible displays in his career thus far. One beautiful and fun example would be the Miami-Dade Art in Public Places commission that Ivan did for the Miami0Dade Government Center. Check this out: From Ivan's Vimeo page on the installation: MIAMI, FL – Ivan Toth Depeña’s light-based installation “Reflect” was [...]
Read MoreA 4D Theme Park?! Oh Yes.
It's too bad we can't buy tickets to one of THESE kind of parks at the gas station like you can places like King's Island and Six Flags Over, uh, Wherever: Whoa! This place is called Live Park, and it was on some kind of a "world tour" for three months in South Korea recently: [...]
Read MoreNikola Tesla: The Love Song!
Here's a geek tune to put a little spark(le) in your eye. Ben Folds, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, and Damien Kulash formed a band, 8 in 8. They decided to make eight songs in eight hours, and from the collective mad genius sprung "Nikola Tesla." Between this dream team and lyrics like, "Edison's enemy, Man [...]
Read MoreWOW: Work It, Tron Dancers!
Japan, I love you. You've done it again. The Wrecking Crew Orchestra performs a jaw dropping dance performance inspired by TRON. I love their use of cueing and the effects they can create using only intensity parameters and their bodies! CHECK IT OUT! This is the full length version of a piece seen in the [...]
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