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Cardboard creations that make computers comprehensible via @proteinfeed.
Niklas Roy’s Cardboard Computing Workshop briefed students to create essential components of computers using limited materials. They asked,”How do computers work on their fundamental levels? Can we build communication networks from scratch – with rubber bands, rope and cardboard? How do analog metaphors for Drag & Drop look like?”
Photographer Andrew Osokin’s awesome macro photos of fallen snowflakes [via @olivia_solon / Geyser of Awesome / Faith is Torment]
(via archiemcphee)
Beautiful use of @bareconductive’s paint » Liquidity by @Patrick_S_K involves lamps using Bare Paint suspended in oil. The lamps work by tilting them so the blob of Bare Paint makes contact between the two electrodes extending from the bulb.
MaKey MaKey “an invention kit for everyone” turns every day objects into things that can trigger the internet (technical term, there) as seen with the banana piano.
An invention kit for artists, kids, educators, engineers, designers, inventors, makers… You can use any material that can conduct at least a tiny bit of electricity - even ketchup or lemons!
Important stuff. The cast of Mad Men ‘perform’ Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
The World Over-80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia - 8 players with 703 years between them compete against each other. Amazing!
Bats in Space! Jeremy Deller’s bat walks will enable you to listen and see the incredible sounds of bats flying around the Olympic Site, through mobiles, tablets and special microphones.
The map will be constantly updated with sightings from guided bat walks along the Greenway, in East London. By clicking on the tags, you can see information on the bats and hear a sample of their calls.
Take a look at the website to view the spectograms of the bat calls recorded so far and listen to the sounds of bats and insects. All sounds and images provided by Prof. Kate Jones (UCL)
Walks take place from 3-13th July. Tickets: £5 (£3 Concessions). To book click here.
The Queen’s Colour Chat: a year of the her outfits. 29% blue, 13% floral, 11% green and so on… from @britishvogue
London CityDashboard http://citydashboard.org/london/ created by the @CASAUCL research lab, an interdisciplinary research centre dealing with digital technologies in geography, space & the built environment, at University College London.
The live data dashboard for the city pulls in TfL data, RSS feeds from BBC London news, geographical information from OpenStreetMap, weather data from Google, trends from Twitter, traffic cameras and water levels along the Thames. It also includes data from UCL’s radiation detector.
Based on a concept developed by Oliver O’Brien, Andrew Hudson-Smith and Richard Milton, here in CASA, developed and built by Duncan Smith and Oliver O’Brien.
via @purplesime
More mapping our worlds…
The Secret History of East London documents a shared history of Hackney and beyond, showing glimpses of previous lives, temporary spaces and urban landscapes. So far pinned are Manor Gardens Allotment, now bulldozed and underneath the Olympic Park, warehouse raves across the borough, art installations and pop-up restaurants.
Via Dazed Digital.
Why NYC is hosting a Hackathon #reinventnycgov. 10 reasons from @RachelSterne, Chief Digital Officer for the City of New York:
- It will bridge sectors and connect the government and technology communities around a shared challenge.
- It will encourage collaborative problem-solving and a more open government.
- It will create a mechanism for the public to share feedback and ideas.
- It can serve as a model for other governments, helping to affect national and international change.
- It will introduce creative and innovative concepts that could help to evolve government to be more efficient and effective in serving and empowering citizens.
- It will provide both individuals and teams with face-to-face access to governments decision makers.
- It creates a precedent and platform for evolving government through open innovation and participation.
- It will serve as the first step in a transparent design process.
- It helps remove subjectivity from the design process by clearly showing what the public wants and needs.
- It equips developers with the internal data they need to make user experience decisions.
The making of ‘turntable rider’: “the bike wheels become jog wheels.The handbrakes become sound pads. Mix and scratch at will.”
Free Network Foundation: the movement against a centralised Internet. VICE speaks to Isaac Wilder, the 21-year-old co-founder of the a non-profit, peer-to-peer communications initiative striving to liberate the global Internet from corporate and governmental interference.
via @motherboard.
World Class Brass: Kinetika Bloco recorded at Notting Hill Carnival 2011 by Nightjar for BBC Radio 2.
The Kinetika Bloco is a young group of brass, woodwind, percussion and steel pan players, plus amazing dancers. Young people can join them for their Spring or Summer Schools.
Radio 2 calls them a “unique new British Carnival sound with a decidedly London edge”. They draw their influences from the Caribbean, Brazil, West and Southern Africa, New Orleans jazz, Funk and Hip Hop.
They’ve performed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Cultural Festival, London Jazz Festival, Thames Festival, The South Bank and at the Unveiling of the Nelson Mandela Statue at Parliament Square.
I used to work for Kinetika and ever time I hear the Bloco it sends shivers down my spine! They are absolutely amazing to see live.
Tree tents! @tentsile designed by architect and treehouse designer Alex Shirley-Smith. via @itsnicethat
