March 10, 2017
shiny
Design's Iridescence Craze "Rainbow hues, color-changing films, and iridescent glazes have been steadily coating the design world for years."
SOMETHING METAPHOR SOMETHING SOMETHING LATE CAPITALISM
Losing it all
Paul Mason was the world's heaviest man. He lost the weight - but now what?
🎶 I failed so hard/I saw stars 🐶 🐱
Equal opportunity humiliation from BuzzFeed:
30 Dogs Who Failed So Hard They Won
29 Cats Who Failed So Hard They Won
Deconstructing Space Oddity, one dimension at a time
Space Oddity – a visual deconstruction, AKA Oddityviz, is a data visualisation project on David Bowie’s Space Oddity by designer Valentina D'Efilippo and researcher Miriam Quick. The project visualises data from Bowie’s 1969 track Space Oddity on a series of 10 specially engraved records. Each 12-inch disc deconstructs the track in a different way: melodies, harmonies, lyrics, structure, story and other aspects of the music and lyrics are transformed into new visual systems. A poster accompanies each record, containing an image of the engraving plus a key. Read about the process, examine the raw data, or just sit back and watch this video which explains it all. [via Dangerous Minds]
"carry these pictures in thine eyes till a suitable time comes"
The Night Ocean
Researchers present time crystals made of quantum mechanical oscillation
Ions oscillate in synchrony, but will do so only if there is some noise. Now, if all of this comes together in the right way, the ions start to oscillate between the ground state and their excited state at their natural frequency again. They cannot do this if only the original kick laser is used, nor if any two of the driving components are used. No, this only occurs if all three processes—a drive, coupling between the ions, and noise—are present. [more inside]
Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail with a one-year-old
Say hello to Bekah, Derrick, and Ellie Quirin, who are planning to begin their Appalachian Trail "flip-flop" this month. They have a blog and an Instagram account.
Meet Professor X's newest Beast
This week has been an exciting one for Sir Patrick Stewart, as he once again embarks on an exciting adventure with a hairy friend with claws. I'm talking, of course, about Stewart and his wife Sunny Ozell fostering an adorable pit bull named Ginger (video of just them meeting Ginger here) with the help of the Wags And Walks rescue organization. Even if she snores and isn't much of a swimmer, Patrick and Sunny are obviously delighted to have her around. [more inside]
"And what will it mean, er, for the wider region ..."
An expert on South Korean politics gives his opinion on the current turmoil in the government, and is briefly joined by small surprise guests. (SLYT, 43 seconds, cute)
They do a little education on the side.
. . .Which brings us back to all those strange Harvard Crimson corrections, appended in 2013 and 2014 to articles dating back to 2005. Each one reads: “An earlier version of headline of this article and statements in the article stated that the DoubleTree Suites hotel is Harvard-owned. To clarify, the company is housed in a Harvard-owned building.” Harvard’s sudden reticence to claim its property stemmed from a straightforward labor dispute that would last three years and, in the end, lay bare the tension between a burgeoning corporate feminism and the rights of working-class women.
A confounded box of whistles
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
Now where could my pipe be? Lasagnacat: John Blyth Barrymore digests Garfield with a side of Philip Glass.
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