Sorry I haven’t posted here in a really long time. It’ll be a while before I get back to FF. I’ve been in graduate school (ITP at NYU) and I’ll be graduating in May 2009. If you’re interested in following my work there, you can see what I’m up to at cwwang.com.

Where is Hasan Elahi right now? After an interogation stint with the FBI, mistaken as an enemy combatant, artist and self declared troublemaker, Hassan, now reveals every detail about his life an FBI agent would want to know. So. . . no need to every summon Hassan ever again. Simply go to trackingtransience.net and locate him (via self imposed gps tracker), see what he’s eaten, where he’s been, what urinals he’s used, etc.

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iphone.unlock.no has the simplest, most straight forward instructions. It simply works (took about 15mins). iPhone, welcome to T-Mobile. more at hackint0sh

Some amazing book autopsies by Brian Dettmer

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USC Institute for Creative Technologies presents (at SIGGRAPH 2007), a new low-cost autostereoscopic 3D display.

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0lll’s exhaustive photo diary of the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion 2007 by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen

Evolo’s 07-housing-competition results are out. Check them out. They’re all way too small to read the text, but the images look great.

more: carlosulloa.com, papervision3d blog

Hans Rosling will teach you a thing or two. Just watch and learn.
via TED

 

I know I do. I know many of you do. So please, let’s Savenetradio.org.

The Haptic Clock is a small clock program for Java powered mobile phones. The clock conveys time through a sequence of vibrations so you never have to pull the phone out of your pocket to tell time.  Perfect for meetings, lazy people, and people who trying to break the addiction of pulling out their cell phone to check the time.

On 24 May 2007, Brick: the exhibition will open at the Groot Handelsgebouw in Rotterdam during the manifestation Rotterdam 2007, City of Architecture.
Brick: the exhibition shows the experiments architects, designers and visual artists ventured into with the brick as a starting point. Inspiring, exciting results from 16 participants from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds, originating from 1 assignment: develop a new type of brick.

Participants:
Marian Bijlenga (visual artist, designer), The Netherlands
David Binns & Alasdair Bremner (ceramists), United Kingdom
Hilde Danielsen (visual artist), Norway
Evan Douglis (architect), United States
Martina Florians (visual artist), The Netherlands
Christine Jetten (ceramist) / Edwin Smolders (architect) / Sebastiaan Robben (architect) / Susan Tunick (ceramist), The Netherlands/USA
NEXT Architects (architects), The Netherlands
Ben Oostrum (designer) & Rob Bonneur (architect), The Netherlands
Marieke Pauwels (visual artist), Belgium
Remko Posthuma (visual artist), The Netherlands
José Rojas (architect), Mexico
Christine Saalfeld (visual artist), Germany
Jan Schabert (architect), Germany
Baukje Trenning (designer), The Netherlands
Arnout Visser & Erik-Jan Kwakkel (designers), The Netherlands

Architorture is a documentary that captures five diverse students in a single studio at one university throughout the entirety of their thesis project.
Architorture. Architorture. Architorture. You just have to love it.

via Land+Living

Finally an iTunes visualization that doesn’t look like a 15 year old made it. Robert Hodgin is everyone’s hero.

barbarian software | magnetosphere

Now, in a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, MIT researchers report that they have visualized for the first time a convoluted tangle underlying turbulence. This work may ultimately help engineers design better planes, cars, submarines and engines.

via MIT News Office

As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, to learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we’re still discovering tiny organisms indispensable to life; yet we’re still steadily destroying nature. Wilson identifies five grave threats to biodiversity (a term he coined), using the acronym HIPPO, and makes his TED wish: that we will work together on the Encyclopedia of Life, a web-based compendium of data from scientists and amateurs on every aspect of the biosphere. [TED] [480p video]

The Hansen Writing Ball | The Virtual Typewriter Museum

Xia Xiaowan draws some eerie figures on multiple layers of glass to create 3d paintings.

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“Morpho Towers – Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral. By Sachiko Kodama + Yasushi Miyajima

Anton Perich, who built his electric painting machine in 1977/78 will be presenting his work at ITP / NYU. The electric painting machine was a predecessor of ink-jet technology and created electric painting years before computer/art works.

721 Broadway, 4th Floor, room 447
Friday, March 30th 2007 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Thanks Timothy.

Hyperbolic Planar Tesselations

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more at Fourmilab

Boundary Functions draws a distinct boundary between it’s participants, defining one’s personal zone in real time.

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Money. Fear. Disney. Debt bondage. Mega architecture.
Mike Davis writes on Fear and Money in Dubai at the New Left Review.

via Space and Culture

Jeff Han’s new company, Perceptive Pixel, is finally out, hopefully building multi-touch interfaces for commercial applications.

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