From this years Science Magazine Visual Challenge 2008
"Visualizing the Bible." Each bar on the graph along the bottom
represents a chapter of the Bible; the bar length corresponds to the
number of verses in the passage. The rainbowlike arcs represent
references from a chapter in one book to a chapter in another.
Honorable Mention for own Jenna Eun in the Weibel lab
Happy accident!
My daughter called me "ruthless", the neighbors either loved or hated me, kids surprised their parents daily with new found treasures, dogs got new beds, birds refreshed their nests, hockey sticks became lawn furniture, soccer balls - ornaments.
Dumping 19 years of crap collected, I ran the east side's longest running most voluminous freecycle yard "sale." I got rid of a ton of stuff.
Interestingly, some shooter caught the tail end and got published in this weeks Isthmus
Sasha Frere-Jones had a great piece in the New Yorker about laptops in live music. There is beauty in this sentence about Battles performance:
As a visual artist I have always been fascinated with moiré, but never related it to music. As a drummer I now make it my goal to average the overlapping.If a loop is played into the machines slightly off center, and doesn’t line up fully with other loops, Stanier faces the devilish task of finding a beat that averages out the moiré effect of all the overlapping.
I gotta disagree with this tho...
As a dj and Serato user, I can assure you that success as a dj requires that you don't "cue a prerecorded mix." Just like the drummer he describes above and Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis), the dj has to spin with their head up. I have some great playlists, but wouldn't dare to unplug and play in a live situation. A good dj feels the audience. We don't operate in a vaccuum.That d.j. using Serato could be executing a series of sophisticated, improvised blends and combinations. Or he could also easily unplug a cable, hit the space bar to cue a prerecorded mix, and then monkey about with the turntables as if possessed by the muse.
Speaking of laptop music. Go see Tortoise Saturday. Free at the Union! Yeah, they have a Mac onstage too.
Article in the NYT on skate shoes has this quote from Mike Vallely
I think skateboarding is more fashion than function
It’s more aesthetic than anything else. It’s more rock ’n’ roll than athletics.
Hmm... Vallely always was a showman.
Damns! That looks pretty athletic to me! (love that shadow btw)
This guy think skateboarding is way more function than form. The roots say get on board and push it to school, but if there's a hill on the way or a driveway you can carve, then you better look good riding it. Whacha gonna do?
Speaking of skateboarding and shoes and fashion, I want a pair of these!
Typography meets cartography in this work by Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, entitled ‘The World, Justified’.
It shows the world we live in as only one of four possibilities, the others being a left-aligned, centred and right-aligned world. Our world is a justified one, i.e. aligned with both left and right margins...
Hmmm... this is a terrific idea...
...Monday, September 22nd the City of Madison reopened two major through-fares in my commute. The bottom three blocks of State Street, which have been under jackhammer for the entire summer, and the early blocks of Jenifer Street, which have been torn to shreds for the past month. My life philosophy (and this applies directly to how I get to work every day) is to never stop moving. When I ride my bike, I may indeed be impeded by the presence of a detour sign or five ton front end loader, but the goal, even if it involves near death encounter, is to never lose momentum. Putting the foot down is not an option. Must get to work- Gotta get to work. Go dog go! Off the bike, the pattern continues. Wake up, feed dogs, shower, walk dogs, GO! If I could brush my teeth and drink coffee at the same time I would. Multitasking is de rigueur. As a drummer, I am the time keeper. Mike Watt calls it "the muscle." If a muscle sits idle, it atrophies. Stop and I will look like the dead raccoon on the side of the highway, frozen stiff, legs projecting skyward.
But suddenly everything has changed. The impassibility of Jenifer and State Streets were no longer just hiccups on my commuter route. With their completion I realize that some things are worth waiting for. My morning now has a Pause button. I may still have these hairy canines that quite completely depend on my reliability, but my own personal demands have flipped their wigs.
What has caused such a transition? MaSh-Up
Lovin'LizD. New (smaller) house. Less crap. Priorities change. Forcing more minutes into an hour makes no sense. Breathe in the air. Fall is coming. "What's next?" is now "here we are." A walk doesn't have to have a purpose. It feels like I just finished a race that has lasted 20 years!
On Ingersol Street by the bus barn is hole in the road the size of a small child. What amounts to skip on the cd player or a splash from your travel mug in the suv, turns into a complete wreck on a bicycle. You may lose a rim and tire, may get completely tossed and break your neck. Can I skip this street altogether? Will it force me to stop at the light on Blair St? Sure! And I'm okay with that. Report a pothole.
Again from his 1921 'Flor de Pascua' woodcut series.
looking around, I also found this piece that I've never seen
