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From the Public Domain Review: Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia, a look at the intersection of early 20th century occult theory, theosophical tomfoolery, and aesthetic abstraction in Besant and Leadbetter's Thought-Forms.
posted on Feb-5-19 at 6:08 PM
Paintings of 2D video game sprites as volumetric 3D objects in perspective, by Chad Ferber:
Joust
Missile Command, 2
Space Invaders, 2, 3, 4
posted on Feb-4-19 at 8:28 AM
Making the Times-Sotheby Index; exposing art bidding deceptions: how Geraldine Norman (née Keen) built up the idea of art as an investment commodity and then fell out of favor with the auction system she'd abetted for trying to keep them honest.
posted on Jan-30-19 at 7:07 AM
EPOCH [Photosensitivity warning: quite blinky.] A stunning two-minute stop-motion collage built entirely out of Google Earth images, by Ireland-based filmmaker Kevin McGloughlin.
posted on Jan-22-19 at 5:24 PM
Wacław Szpakowski was a polish artist who made a series of complex drawings using one continuous line turning back on itself repeatedly. More examples viewable here; a few animated versions; some pages from his notebooks. (Those last three links are futzy embeddings from waclawszpakowski.pl, which has Polish- and English-language info about his life and work.) More images still if you click on "IMAGES" at the top right of this page.
posted on Jan-14-19 at 8:56 AM
HI I'M DAISY
posted on Dec-22-18 at 5:59 PM
Got some fabric, want to check it for thread count or imperfections, and you can only use the power of moire? Looks like you need a Lunometer! The device was invented, patented in 1929, and eponymously branded by one Hans Peter Luhn, who also invented the goddam hashing algorithm among other things.
posted on Dec-12-18 at 1:49 PM
Leo (of Leo Makes) makes, or rather remakes, a plate reverb unit out of an Ikea shelf. He made one before, too, but the new one is better.
posted on Dec-11-18 at 12:08 PM
100 Variations presents a collection of 100 grey-scaled Rubik's Cubes arranged in 100 different symmetrical configurations within a 6x6x? cube volume. Click through the individual photos for explanatory captions. More from artist Roula Partheniou.
posted on Dec-3-18 at 9:06 AM
Here's 17 minutes of an old steel vice being quietly, painstakingly restored.
posted on Nov-14-18 at 9:36 AM
"So playing this, every single time I see something undeniably British, which is approximately every 1.6 seconds in Horizon 4, I double-double-take." John Walker over at Rock Paper Shotgun writes about the strange un-uncanny valley roadtrip that is being a British person, raised on a diet of American driving games, confronting a driving game that is actually casually understatedly British.
posted on Oct-23-18 at 11:05 AM
Super Mario Bros, with a live big band score, featuring Guy In Headband on solo NES controller.
posted on Oct-9-18 at 7:17 PM
look at this telephone-inventing-ass dude with his tetrahedral kites, all flying Sierpinski pyramids around like he owns the place
posted on Aug-2-18 at 9:51 AM
Some physically pixelated (voxelated?) foodstuffs from Yuni Yoshida, art director:
- Apple and banana.
- Pineapple.
- Hamburger.
Also tilings and textures and patterns and tilings. [via kottke, c/o mltshp.]
posted on Jul-16-18 at 10:07 AM
The Tapestry of the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence : MetaFilter's own moonmilk took a copy of a copy of the audio data on Voyager's Golden Record, and turned it into a 40-meter-long tapestry of human images-as-sound. Watch it all scroll by. [via mefi projects]
posted on Jul-12-18 at 1:20 PM
Urban planner Geoff Boeing has calculated some lovely polar histograms of the orientations of American city streets, and further of various cities around the world, along with explanations of the context and methods. [via mltshp]
posted on Jul-11-18 at 4:08 PM
"Good morning, sir, how can I help y—" I'm looking for a copy of All-Star.
"Certainly, I think we have a few copies of—" Done as a Bach choral.
"Oh. Yes, Here's a Bach chorale, can I—" No, but—I meant with a vocoder.
"Vocoder Bach chorale, abso—" Wait wait no actually can you make it Ligeti?
"Ligeti. Legeti? Okay. All-Star as Ligeti, here's a—" I meant jazz, sorry, I'm sorry, have you got jazz?
"I—yes. Yes, we have All-Star as jazz. Is there anything else I can do for you today, sir?" Nope, that's it, thanks so much.
"You're very welcome, have a nice d—"
oh wait have you got any Despacito
posted on Jul-2-18 at 7:43 AM
"Welcome to Excel Unusual, the home of the most unique Microsoft Excel animated spreadsheets." How about a gated ring oscillator? Maybe some Pong? Surely you've time for a wireframe rollercoaster? And so on and so forth.
posted on Jun-30-18 at 10:25 AM
Here's a gorgeous collection of Chladni figures, illustrations of vibration patterns by acoustics pioneer Ernst Chladni. Full scan of the original 18th C. German text (illustrations start around page 90). Hat tip to interrobang.
Chladni and cymatics variously previously on MetaFilter: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014.
posted on Jun-11-18 at 11:27 AM
On Ryan's blog, "Ryan Blog", Ryan has blogged many edits of songs to remove every other beat or half-measure and the resulting deconstruction and resynthesis of mega-hits is good as hell. Some favorites: the glitchy weirdness of Uptown Girl; the newfound brevity and energy of Shake it off; the incoherent squashing of Sails.
posted on Jun-10-18 at 7:31 AM
Dicey Dungeons is a new game from rad indie dev Terry Cavanagh. You choose a class, explore a dungeon, and use dice rolls to power your various equipment and special moves while leveling up to earn more dice to power new loot. Look out for the skeleton, he'll fuck you up!
posted on May-23-18 at 11:51 AM
Psst, kid, you wanna see some magnets colliding at a thousand frames per second
posted on May-22-18 at 9:20 AM
Famed somniohistorian Neil Cicierega would like you to get you up to speed on the official state nightmares of the states of the United States.
posted on May-21-18 at 8:53 AM
Fuck it, let's dissolve a keyboard in acetone. (Definitely via jessamyn via mltshp this time.)
posted on Feb-7-18 at 11:04 AM
Bubbling Trains ~ Accessibility Fireworks ~ Roads of America ~ Gulf of Finland
Helsinki-based GIS enthusiast Topi Tjukanov makes lovely visualizations of e.g. road and traffic data.
posted on Jan-22-18 at 9:04 AM
Play free fast-paced web-based survive-o-shooter surviv.io, and answer the question: what if runaway gaming sensation Plunkbat (aka PUBG, aka Battlegrounds) lost a dimension and three fourths of its round length and all of its pretty graphics?
posted on Jan-12-18 at 9:12 AM
Spend ten minutes exploring the strange circle-of-life adventure of Rabbit Game, a game where you are a rabbit. There is also some non-rabbit content.
posted on Jan-8-18 at 11:48 AM
Welp, Maskull Lasserre went and carved a dang skull out of old software manuals.
posted on Jan-5-18 at 9:13 AM
The Paige Compositor: The story of Mark Twain, James William Paige, and the fever-dream type-setting machine that ruined them both. Drawings from the (enormous) patent, and text, both courtesy this roundup on Circuitous Root.
posted on Jan-3-18 at 8:33 AM
Thomas the Tank Engine Train Stunts. The first couple stunts are a little ho-hum, but then it...*sunglasses*...goes off the rails.
posted on Dec-4-17 at 4:42 PM
A dev named Nothke talks about implementing a simple navigable infinitely large library, inspired in part by Borges, Castel del Monte and Jonathan Bosile's earlier Borges project, libraryofbabel.info (of which previously).
posted on Nov-26-17 at 7:35 AM
Adam Hillman, an artist from New Jersey, makes colorful geometric art from the arrangement of unremarkable objects.
posted on Nov-22-17 at 10:44 AM
Back to Bits is a curated collection of short, small animation loops based on classic video games. Here's the whole Level 2 collection as a video; see also the (maybe slower-loading?) Level 1 archive and corresponding video montage.
posted on Oct-26-17 at 8:37 AM
Twitch Plays Battlegrounds, in which a formless crew of chatroom drivers on a Twitch stream try to play battle royale circles-of-death surviv-o-shooter plunkbat.
posted on Jul-31-17 at 7:19 PM
You got the dud. You got the dud. You got the dud.
(Original Simpson's clip for context.)
posted on Jul-21-17 at 11:28 AM
Cut & Shut is a short surreal animation of VWs, mostly Beetles, moving in strange ways. By designer Chris LaBrooy.
posted on Jul-20-17 at 10:39 AM
Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
posted on Jul-14-17 at 9:15 AM
Check out AI Generated Movie Posters, a site featuring movie posters generated by AI. Built by our own OrangeGloves, via mefi projects.
posted on Jul-10-17 at 3:22 PM
hi, I'm Steve, a short animation about someone who isn't named Steve. By Bill Wurtz of whom previously and thus and so forth.
posted on Jul-7-17 at 9:14 AM
Need a break from needing a break from work? Spend a little time being productive in It Is As If You Were Doing Work, a free web-based game about doing work in an office job.
posted on Jul-4-17 at 8:44 AM
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (aka PUBG aka Plunkbat aka PUBaGr) is a 100 person shooter evoking Battle Royale/Hunger Games last-person-standing mechanics but without the narrative framing, newest and biggest in a recent genre explosion. You and 99 other people parachute onto an island, and try to find weapons and armor and misc. gear while struggling to keep within the bounds of an increasingly claustrophobic circle. It can be rather goofy, even before you add McEllroys.
posted on Jul-2-17 at 8:24 AM
*movie trailer voice* The floppy naked CGI guy is back, and this time...he's brought some friends.
time for sushi
posted on Jun-22-17 at 9:35 AM
Two sets of work from artist Grégory Chiha:
- Têtes brûlées, books carefully burnt to create images of heads and faces.
- Fantômes, paintings with warped/strange/half-there subjects.
posted on Jun-18-17 at 9:00 AM
From photographer Julieanne Kost, three different excellent collections of work:
- streaked, blurred handheld pictures from a vehicle in Passenger Seat I and Passenger Seat II
- implausibly colored landscape abstracts in recent aerial photographs
- eerie photo manipulation collages in What I Dream
posted on Jun-14-17 at 8:50 AM
Forgotten Corners is a gorgeous series of pairs of black and white line abstractions and reference photos of architecture and city environments, by artist Andrew G. Fisher. See also the more recent series, incorporating color elements, A Stolen Day on a Stolen Trip.
posted on Jun-10-17 at 11:00 AM
Yeah, sure, cellular automata are pretty great, whatever. Wait! Let's knit them on scarves! Yeah. Yeah, that's the--WAIT! I've got it! Let's plaster 'em all over a goddam train station!
posted on Jun-9-17 at 7:22 AM
FamilyTree is a photo collage project by artist Bobby Neel Adams, joining portraits of intergenerational family members together along a ragged border.
posted on Jun-2-17 at 10:02 AM
Spanish photographer Javier Torres writes about how to take fluorescent pictures. Also a lot of other nice stuff on photography basics and principles.
posted on May-26-17 at 10:04 AM
Spend twelve soothingly critical minutes with English engine enthusiast Keith Appleton as he tears down, and explains the issues with, a small steam engine. Lots, lots more on his website, mainsteam.co.uk.
posted on May-22-17 at 7:30 AM
What happens when you use machine translation on repeating pairs of Japanese syllables? Insane computer poetry (courtesy of Language Log). More examples collected in examples posted by Naomi Clark; likewise from Dan Luu.
posted on May-19-17 at 10:01 AM
posted on Feb-5-19 at 6:08 PM
Paintings of 2D video game sprites as volumetric 3D objects in perspective, by Chad Ferber:
Joust
Missile Command, 2
Space Invaders, 2, 3, 4
posted on Feb-4-19 at 8:28 AM
Making the Times-Sotheby Index; exposing art bidding deceptions: how Geraldine Norman (née Keen) built up the idea of art as an investment commodity and then fell out of favor with the auction system she'd abetted for trying to keep them honest.
posted on Jan-30-19 at 7:07 AM
EPOCH [Photosensitivity warning: quite blinky.] A stunning two-minute stop-motion collage built entirely out of Google Earth images, by Ireland-based filmmaker Kevin McGloughlin.
posted on Jan-22-19 at 5:24 PM
Wacław Szpakowski was a polish artist who made a series of complex drawings using one continuous line turning back on itself repeatedly. More examples viewable here; a few animated versions; some pages from his notebooks. (Those last three links are futzy embeddings from waclawszpakowski.pl, which has Polish- and English-language info about his life and work.) More images still if you click on "IMAGES" at the top right of this page.
posted on Jan-14-19 at 8:56 AM
HI I'M DAISY
posted on Dec-22-18 at 5:59 PM
Got some fabric, want to check it for thread count or imperfections, and you can only use the power of moire? Looks like you need a Lunometer! The device was invented, patented in 1929, and eponymously branded by one Hans Peter Luhn, who also invented the goddam hashing algorithm among other things.
posted on Dec-12-18 at 1:49 PM
Leo (of Leo Makes) makes, or rather remakes, a plate reverb unit out of an Ikea shelf. He made one before, too, but the new one is better.
posted on Dec-11-18 at 12:08 PM
100 Variations presents a collection of 100 grey-scaled Rubik's Cubes arranged in 100 different symmetrical configurations within a 6x6x? cube volume. Click through the individual photos for explanatory captions. More from artist Roula Partheniou.
posted on Dec-3-18 at 9:06 AM
Here's 17 minutes of an old steel vice being quietly, painstakingly restored.
posted on Nov-14-18 at 9:36 AM
"So playing this, every single time I see something undeniably British, which is approximately every 1.6 seconds in Horizon 4, I double-double-take." John Walker over at Rock Paper Shotgun writes about the strange un-uncanny valley roadtrip that is being a British person, raised on a diet of American driving games, confronting a driving game that is actually casually understatedly British.
posted on Oct-23-18 at 11:05 AM
Super Mario Bros, with a live big band score, featuring Guy In Headband on solo NES controller.
posted on Oct-9-18 at 7:17 PM
look at this telephone-inventing-ass dude with his tetrahedral kites, all flying Sierpinski pyramids around like he owns the place
posted on Aug-2-18 at 9:51 AM
Some physically pixelated (voxelated?) foodstuffs from Yuni Yoshida, art director:
- Apple and banana.
- Pineapple.
- Hamburger.
Also tilings and textures and patterns and tilings. [via kottke, c/o mltshp.]
posted on Jul-16-18 at 10:07 AM
The Tapestry of the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence : MetaFilter's own moonmilk took a copy of a copy of the audio data on Voyager's Golden Record, and turned it into a 40-meter-long tapestry of human images-as-sound. Watch it all scroll by. [via mefi projects]
posted on Jul-12-18 at 1:20 PM
Urban planner Geoff Boeing has calculated some lovely polar histograms of the orientations of American city streets, and further of various cities around the world, along with explanations of the context and methods. [via mltshp]
posted on Jul-11-18 at 4:08 PM
"Good morning, sir, how can I help y—" I'm looking for a copy of All-Star.
"Certainly, I think we have a few copies of—" Done as a Bach choral.
"Oh. Yes, Here's a Bach chorale, can I—" No, but—I meant with a vocoder.
"Vocoder Bach chorale, abso—" Wait wait no actually can you make it Ligeti?
"Ligeti. Legeti? Okay. All-Star as Ligeti, here's a—" I meant jazz, sorry, I'm sorry, have you got jazz?
"I—yes. Yes, we have All-Star as jazz. Is there anything else I can do for you today, sir?" Nope, that's it, thanks so much.
"You're very welcome, have a nice d—"
oh wait have you got any Despacito
posted on Jul-2-18 at 7:43 AM
"Welcome to Excel Unusual, the home of the most unique Microsoft Excel animated spreadsheets." How about a gated ring oscillator? Maybe some Pong? Surely you've time for a wireframe rollercoaster? And so on and so forth.
posted on Jun-30-18 at 10:25 AM
Here's a gorgeous collection of Chladni figures, illustrations of vibration patterns by acoustics pioneer Ernst Chladni. Full scan of the original 18th C. German text (illustrations start around page 90). Hat tip to interrobang.
Chladni and cymatics variously previously on MetaFilter: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014.
posted on Jun-11-18 at 11:27 AM
On Ryan's blog, "Ryan Blog", Ryan has blogged many edits of songs to remove every other beat or half-measure and the resulting deconstruction and resynthesis of mega-hits is good as hell. Some favorites: the glitchy weirdness of Uptown Girl; the newfound brevity and energy of Shake it off; the incoherent squashing of Sails.
posted on Jun-10-18 at 7:31 AM
Dicey Dungeons is a new game from rad indie dev Terry Cavanagh. You choose a class, explore a dungeon, and use dice rolls to power your various equipment and special moves while leveling up to earn more dice to power new loot. Look out for the skeleton, he'll fuck you up!
posted on May-23-18 at 11:51 AM
Psst, kid, you wanna see some magnets colliding at a thousand frames per second
posted on May-22-18 at 9:20 AM
Famed somniohistorian Neil Cicierega would like you to get you up to speed on the official state nightmares of the states of the United States.
posted on May-21-18 at 8:53 AM
Fuck it, let's dissolve a keyboard in acetone. (Definitely via jessamyn via mltshp this time.)
posted on Feb-7-18 at 11:04 AM
Bubbling Trains ~ Accessibility Fireworks ~ Roads of America ~ Gulf of Finland
Helsinki-based GIS enthusiast Topi Tjukanov makes lovely visualizations of e.g. road and traffic data.
posted on Jan-22-18 at 9:04 AM
Play free fast-paced web-based survive-o-shooter surviv.io, and answer the question: what if runaway gaming sensation Plunkbat (aka PUBG, aka Battlegrounds) lost a dimension and three fourths of its round length and all of its pretty graphics?
posted on Jan-12-18 at 9:12 AM
Spend ten minutes exploring the strange circle-of-life adventure of Rabbit Game, a game where you are a rabbit. There is also some non-rabbit content.
posted on Jan-8-18 at 11:48 AM
Welp, Maskull Lasserre went and carved a dang skull out of old software manuals.
posted on Jan-5-18 at 9:13 AM
The Paige Compositor: The story of Mark Twain, James William Paige, and the fever-dream type-setting machine that ruined them both. Drawings from the (enormous) patent, and text, both courtesy this roundup on Circuitous Root.
posted on Jan-3-18 at 8:33 AM
Thomas the Tank Engine Train Stunts. The first couple stunts are a little ho-hum, but then it...*sunglasses*...goes off the rails.
posted on Dec-4-17 at 4:42 PM
A dev named Nothke talks about implementing a simple navigable infinitely large library, inspired in part by Borges, Castel del Monte and Jonathan Bosile's earlier Borges project, libraryofbabel.info (of which previously).
posted on Nov-26-17 at 7:35 AM
Adam Hillman, an artist from New Jersey, makes colorful geometric art from the arrangement of unremarkable objects.
posted on Nov-22-17 at 10:44 AM
Back to Bits is a curated collection of short, small animation loops based on classic video games. Here's the whole Level 2 collection as a video; see also the (maybe slower-loading?) Level 1 archive and corresponding video montage.
posted on Oct-26-17 at 8:37 AM
Twitch Plays Battlegrounds, in which a formless crew of chatroom drivers on a Twitch stream try to play battle royale circles-of-death surviv-o-shooter plunkbat.
posted on Jul-31-17 at 7:19 PM
You got the dud. You got the dud. You got the dud.
(Original Simpson's clip for context.)
posted on Jul-21-17 at 11:28 AM
Cut & Shut is a short surreal animation of VWs, mostly Beetles, moving in strange ways. By designer Chris LaBrooy.
posted on Jul-20-17 at 10:39 AM
Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
posted on Jul-14-17 at 9:15 AM
Check out AI Generated Movie Posters, a site featuring movie posters generated by AI. Built by our own OrangeGloves, via mefi projects.
posted on Jul-10-17 at 3:22 PM
hi, I'm Steve, a short animation about someone who isn't named Steve. By Bill Wurtz of whom previously and thus and so forth.
posted on Jul-7-17 at 9:14 AM
Need a break from needing a break from work? Spend a little time being productive in It Is As If You Were Doing Work, a free web-based game about doing work in an office job.
posted on Jul-4-17 at 8:44 AM
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (aka PUBG aka Plunkbat aka PUBaGr) is a 100 person shooter evoking Battle Royale/Hunger Games last-person-standing mechanics but without the narrative framing, newest and biggest in a recent genre explosion. You and 99 other people parachute onto an island, and try to find weapons and armor and misc. gear while struggling to keep within the bounds of an increasingly claustrophobic circle. It can be rather goofy, even before you add McEllroys.
posted on Jul-2-17 at 8:24 AM
*movie trailer voice* The floppy naked CGI guy is back, and this time...he's brought some friends.
time for sushi
posted on Jun-22-17 at 9:35 AM
Two sets of work from artist Grégory Chiha:
- Têtes brûlées, books carefully burnt to create images of heads and faces.
- Fantômes, paintings with warped/strange/half-there subjects.
posted on Jun-18-17 at 9:00 AM
From photographer Julieanne Kost, three different excellent collections of work:
- streaked, blurred handheld pictures from a vehicle in Passenger Seat I and Passenger Seat II
- implausibly colored landscape abstracts in recent aerial photographs
- eerie photo manipulation collages in What I Dream
posted on Jun-14-17 at 8:50 AM
Forgotten Corners is a gorgeous series of pairs of black and white line abstractions and reference photos of architecture and city environments, by artist Andrew G. Fisher. See also the more recent series, incorporating color elements, A Stolen Day on a Stolen Trip.
posted on Jun-10-17 at 11:00 AM
Yeah, sure, cellular automata are pretty great, whatever. Wait! Let's knit them on scarves! Yeah. Yeah, that's the--WAIT! I've got it! Let's plaster 'em all over a goddam train station!
posted on Jun-9-17 at 7:22 AM
FamilyTree is a photo collage project by artist Bobby Neel Adams, joining portraits of intergenerational family members together along a ragged border.
posted on Jun-2-17 at 10:02 AM
Spanish photographer Javier Torres writes about how to take fluorescent pictures. Also a lot of other nice stuff on photography basics and principles.
posted on May-26-17 at 10:04 AM
Spend twelve soothingly critical minutes with English engine enthusiast Keith Appleton as he tears down, and explains the issues with, a small steam engine. Lots, lots more on his website, mainsteam.co.uk.
posted on May-22-17 at 7:30 AM
What happens when you use machine translation on repeating pairs of Japanese syllables? Insane computer poetry (courtesy of Language Log). More examples collected in examples posted by Naomi Clark; likewise from Dan Luu.
posted on May-19-17 at 10:01 AM
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