It is now time for you to stop whatever you are doing and watch/participate in Spanish band Labuat’s interactive music video for their song “Soy Tu Aire” (I am your Air).

I would embed it if I could but as I can not, click here, wait for it to load (there’s a percentage loading thinger at the bottom) and turn on your sound.  You can control the flow of the video with your mouse.

beautiful.

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yes.

yes, I know.

It is beautiful and implosion-y and dystopic-tastic.

shhhhhhhhhhhhh.

shush now, quit your cryin’; there’s more info about this installation by dean ruck and dan havel, here.

credit to design sponge’s twitter for spreading the word.

timothy horn’s medusae: (made of silicone rubber & fiber-optics creating a soft glow that might make it be the best chandelier of all time)

ernst haekel’s discomedusae:

detail:

Also, I would like us all to take a moment and reflect on the many magical and wonderous images that the phrase “Disco Medusa” conjures.

“He bemoaned the misery of a youth deprived of television, football and girls. Movies were also forbidden – except for a sanctioned screening of The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy, about a kidnapped child lama with magical powers.”

Thus, the only pop-cultural reference point for lamas-to-be is 1986’s The Golden Child.

We all know that the Golden Child is the Best* Eddie Murphy Film of all Time (or BEMFOAT).  But it is less widely known, however, is that the Dalai Lama thinks so too. Brother Numsie would be proud.

Many thank yous to my dearlingest friend josh-dear for forwarding the article.

* by “the best”, I mean “my favorite”

Finally! There is photographic evidence that, contrary to negative stereotypes, dinosaurs do in fact make great co-workers.

My dearling friend Rickmonkey has been chronicling the activity of a hard-working Allosaurus on tumbler here: http://allosaurus.tumblr.com

I very much recommend that you add it to your rss-reader, unless of course you hate Awesome.

no, this goose is not demon-possessed, it is mid-whiffle.

Paul Stancliffe, of the British Trust for Ornithology (via dailymail) says:

“It looks like this bird is in mid-whiffle,” he said. “When geese come in to land from a great height they partake in a bout of whiffling, this involves the bird twisting and turning to spill air from their wings and thus lowering their speed prior to landing.”

Please try to use this term 3 times today in conversation.

Thank you.

Hello Hi.  So this past Sunday, I dropped by the annual Bust Craftacular – this year at the Warsaw in my old bklyn neighborhood (greenpoint), yay.  Though it was far far too crowded in there to spend more than a minute at any booth before being shoved down the aisle by someone in a fedora and/or with perfectly sculpted bangs, I did have a few favorites crafters n’ artists that I am compelled to share with those who could not make it.

#1: Tugboat Print Shop (Pittsburgh, PA)

I mean, what we have here is lots of beautiful woodcut prints, which would be lovely enough, but when you add to that the fact that a lot of their work is either nautical-themed or woodland-themed, I am just all a-smitten.   From their site:

“jellies”:

“high seas drifter”:

#2: KG + AB (Brooklyn, NY)

What’s that you say?? Ceramic bears fighting in a bell jar? yes, I know, it is amazing.

also from their store:

#3: GlitterLimes! (San Francisco, CA)

You take some cross-sections of fruit, you immerse them in some kind of magical sparkly laminate and you get darling organic wearable art. Sadly my photos of the Glitterlimes table at the craftacular were poopy, so thank you and credit to flickr users panachelady and beckyh for the images.  Lovely indeed.

also, it’s adorable. (pronounced “a-doh-ra-bluh”)

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What is the ITP Spring Show? I will tell you what (and/or quote from their site a lot):  ITP is a “festival of interactive sight, sound and technology” – a science-fair-like showcase of the graduate projects for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, a “a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds.”

I went on the 2nd day, and got the double-awesome opportunity to bring with me about 15 techie nyc public high schoolers (all of whom participate in the program I do for work). lots of opening-eyes and expanding-paradigms and what not, I have a pretty great job. yay.

Here are some (of many) of the ITP projects that I adored bigtime:

#1 Root Boots (Michelle Mayer)

from Michelle: “This image came to me of boots you can wear that look like the base of a tree with roots going into the ground. I like the irony of boots which encourage you to be still a moment and connect.”

The boots give you feedback when you behave the way a good tree should.  If you try to pick up your feet and move, the boots make increasingly scary root-tearing noises and when you stay still, the boots emit a calming deep vibration (that you can feel if you stand barefoot next to someone in the boots too – as my dearling friend jay is doing in the photos).

#2 Alter to Our Lady of the Shining Silver Sun (Eduardo Lytton)

Latin American retablo folk art + illustrated animation + dreams-vs-reality = this project (in a nutshell) which why I am so very very yay about it.

From Eduardo: “The Altar to Our Lady of the Shining Silver Sun holds testimonials of strange and powerful visions in the form of retablos, colorful votives often seen in Latin American churches that mix painting and text to show saints gratitude for moments of divine intervention or miracles. The retablos and the collection of small personal votives on the shelf that complement them will be offerings on the theme of “visions” and/or psychotic disorders that will become animated as one approaches the altar, hopefully presenting an environment where the perception of real and the unreal starts to stretch and rip apart.”

#3 Mechanical Storytelling (Eun Jung Park)

Automatons! Raw Wood! Sad-Clowns! Oh My!

These perfectly carved hand-cranked analog story-thingees might be my new favorite thing in the entire world.

From EJ: “Mechanical Storytelling is a contemporary automaton depicting an animated scene and featuring a clown character with a unique personality. My focus in this work is the creation of mechanisms that are appropriate to the animations necessary for giving personality and “life” to this wooden object.”

Check out the rest of my ITP photos here.

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