fighting for my rights

Strange geometry

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:34:02 GMT

Kansas farms from above, and other images taken from space.

The Snow Show at the Winter Olympics

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:41:00 GMT

http://www.thesnowshow.net/gallery/pictures.php

Architects and designers including Zaha Hadid, Sir Norman, Tadao Ando and Future Systems, making, um, cool things from snow and ice.

Hip histories

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:23:33 GMT

http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums

The Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields - medical-history museum, with giants' skeletons, fake noses and all sorts of bizarre medical stuff - has an exhibition running on the history of hip replacements.

Sketch swap

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:56:00 GMT

Draw a silly sketch, get one back:
http://www.sketchswap.com/

But I don't want to be on the hip-hop line!

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:38:36 GMT

Yet another alternative tube map. Link to pdf of the whole thing in here, so you could make your own:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/02/03/going_underground.html

Nifty touch-screen demos

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:35:19 GMT

With added extra fluid dynamics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvyjdWEHJJk

Double exposures from Morocco

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:57:21 GMT

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/morocco-double-exposures.html
Small article, plus pictures and links.

retrievr

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:52:26 GMT

http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/ - search for photos on Flickr via sketch. Kind of primitive, but fun to play with, and works pretty well for finding particular colour combinations.

Hearwear: the future of hearing

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:26:25 GMT

Exhibition at the V&A:
Hearwear suggests revolutionary new possibilities in hearing products for everyone, not just people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and introduces the possibility of new products to allow everyone to control and enhance the sounds around us. Imagine having a remote control you could use to instantly block out the sound of noisy builders or a screaming child; or a product that allows you to hold a clear conversation in a noisy bar. The display includes stylish and attractive hearing products, some almost like jewellery, that people not only need but will really want to wear.

(to 5th March)

Russian photo archive

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:28:37 GMT

http://www.wahonowin.com/
Vintage Russian photos and postcards. Lots of portraits.

Picture map of the UK

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:41:31 GMT

over here at http://www.geograph.org.uk. Nice idea; most of the photos are pretty dull though, so I guess we'd better all sign up...

Spirit medium photographs

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:28:14 GMT

http://www.photography-museum.com/believe1.html (alas, no supernatural chickens!) Other nice stuff at same url: early trick photography, early portraits, etc.

Scanner photography

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:20:36 GMT

A large-format camera from a cardboard box and a flatbed scanner, and the results thereof.
http://www.scannerphotography.com/

Photolinkage

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:25:54 GMT

Shiny things underground:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/london-topological.html
http://siologen.net/pbase/displayimage.php?album=9&pos=1