Grandmaster Flash’s Science

Everyone’s a pioneer in their own way.  This is from a quote i picked up in this month’s Wired Magazine.  In 1973 Grandmaster Flash invented Turntablism:
The DJ’s at the time were picking up the arm and dropping it down exactly on the break of the song. But i was dancing, and i noticed everybody’s head [...]

In Defense of Boredom

In the latest copy of The Week, i read a great article about boredom. My favorite lines:

To be bored is to stop reacting to the external world, and to explore the internal one. It is in reflection that people often discover something new, whether it is an epiphany about a relationship or a new theory [...]

Muppet Viewing for your Friday

Here it is for your viewing pleasure - some muppets that were on display at the Photoshop contest at worth1000. Check ‘em out:

Beauty - Looking vs. Eating

I read this post on Caterina Flake’s blog. I thought it was worth a repost. I love the concept of looking vs. eating. I believe we live in a culture that is consistently eating rather than appreciating.

“Beauty is the only finality here below. As Kant said very aptly, it is a finality which [...]

All-Wooden Bike

I love this. Some high-school kid built a wooden bike. Everything is wood - even the chain. Pretty sweet (from Gizmodo)

Ron Mueck is the coolest artist i’ve seen in a long time

Finally, a truly modern sculptor.
Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Australia to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years (like Fraggle Rock) before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.
Eventually Mueck concluded that photography destroys [...]