Shot on March 15, 2009 from the 8th floor of the Marriott Hotel at Vanderbilt, looking down into Vanderbilt Stadium.
Time Lapse @ 7 WTC #2
Shot from my office on the 29th floor of 7 World Trade Center New York, NY on February 27th 2009, around 2pm.
That’s Barclay street running vertically through the frame, the post office in the top-right, and Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Flower” at bottom-center. Ground Zero is just off camera, to the right.
Time Lapse @ 7 WTC #1
Shot from my office on the 29th floor of 7 World Trade Center New York, NY on February 25th 2009, around noon. This shot is looking east towards the Woolworth building, City Hall, and, in the distance, Brooklyn.
Floating Logos
Ads vs. Reality
Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate representation in every case. Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all.
Talking in Circles
This is what my conference call looks like, as illustrated by Ze Frank’s new voice drawing toy.
User Interface of the Week
Paging Gruber.
Snow Arch
My brothers built this snow arch on Christmas Eve 2008.
It lasted for about 30 minutes before we realized it was starting to lean, at which point I set up my Flip Mino to capture its slow demise. The first 8 seconds are actually 8 minutes elapsed (I sped things up to make it watchable), and you can see how much the arch shifts in such a short time.
The Legend of Little Mary Mint & The Twists
My friend Devin Febbroriello‘s addition to the Creepy Christmas advent calendar/film fest, a collection of short films with “a twisted take on holiday motifs”.
No embed, unfortunately, so you have to click through to watch.
Amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus, or bicycle.
Amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus, or bicycle. [via]
California Wildfires
More at The Big Picture.
Snout
“Double-Taker (Snout)” is a recent project from new media artist Golan Levin that consists of an eight-foot long robot arm, dressed-up to resemble an enormous inchworm with a googly-eye. “Snout” responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity:
The goal of this kinetic system is to perform convincing “double-takes” at its visitors, in which the sculpture appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers — communicating, without words, that there is something uniquely surprising about each of us.
You can see more of Golan’s work at www.flong.com.
Facebook’s ad targeting is better than I thought.
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza
SPLAT is Pentagram’s proposal for the Reinventing Grand Army Plaza ideas competition, and has been selected as one of the top 30 proposals out of the 200 submitted.
Although Grand Army Plaza was once an elegant promenade, today it is hardly more than a busy traffic circle. As cars, trucks buses and taxis are facts of modern life (and eliminating them from the plaza would simply spread the traffic nightmare throughout the neighborhood) a design solution is needed that would establish an accessible and active space for people, while at the same time quietly allowing vehicular traffic to flow.
More pictures and info are available on the Pentagram blog.