The Ramp House was designed to be a skatable living space, awesome.
Month: March 2009
On drinking
Letters from Beckett
Letters from Beckett. Records of interpersonal communication will likely get lost in the swell of the digital world, it’s a shame.
The terrorist threat
Crayola colours
The science of visual art
From Mirror Neurons to the Mona Lisa, notes from a symposium on visual art and the brain, exploring the neurobiological aspects of how we perceive and understand visual art. Slides and audio are available, but they’re half-hidden underneath each speaker’s photo.
Everything Picasso
The Online Picasso Project catalogues all of the artist’s work, as well as biographical notes, commentaries and references.
University on the tubes
Academic Earth provides a one-stop shop for lecture videos from America’s top universities. Combined with a pile of free textbooks, it’s never been easier to become a reclusive academic.
Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are trailer. I’m definitely looking forward to this one.
Infographic Riding Hood
The Godfather Wars
The Godfather Wars, a recent Vanity Fair article, goes along way towards describing what was necessary to get the first Godfather movie off the ground. I can’t image what the film would’ve been like with some of the original studio demands.
Data visualization for the masses
Many Eyes is a project from IBM that seeks to “democratize” visualization and create a social kind of data analysis. Upload your own data set or use one of the theirs to create a variety of different visualizations.