Monthly Archives: September 2008

Historically Inaccurate Upholstery

By Chungaiz | Published: September 24, 2008

Historically Inaccurate is kind of the portfolio site for a really very interesting artist, Richard Saja, who manipulates, remixes and subtley changes upholstery. He’s actually doing more than that (glow in the dark landscapes, clocks etc, all around needle work) but I find the work below incredible. I’m saving up to buy something from him, [...]

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The Corpus Clock & Chronophage

By Kai | Published: September 19, 2008

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video “The hour approaches. The beast’s jaws gape, its tail quivers and then snap! Another minute has been devoured, and the hour strikes with the ominous clonk of a chain dropping into a coffin. The creature blinks twice in satisfaction.” This is how the [...]

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Augmented Reality

By Chungaiz | Published: September 12, 2008

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Iain Tait‘s got a load of really very interesting Augment Reality toys to play with. Not sure how useful most of them are, but hey it’s all interesting stuff. I mean, whilst it’s cool to have a video play on a piece of [...]

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Water Bears In Space!

By Chungaiz | Published: September 11, 2008

  From Space.com: “A tiny, eight-legged critter that can suspend all biological activity in extreme environments survived a journey to space that would have instantly killed any human and most other life forms. In the first test of its kind, researchers exposed the hardy segmented creatures, called “water bears,” to the open and harsh vacuum [...]

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Obama Branding – Too Good?

By Chungaiz | Published: September 11, 2008

Do we actually read marketing or brand messages, or do we only take in the visual logo? With thousands of messages thrown at us each day, it’s an interesting thought.

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Worldmapper

By Chungaiz | Published: September 3, 2008

Worldmapper gives us a different perspective on the world. The above image depicts countries in sizes according to their religion, but explore all their categories, from population, disease, destruction, to import and exports.

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No Time To Think – Google Talk

By Chungaiz | Published: September 3, 2008

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Interesting talk at the Google campus about how technology that is supposed to help us manage our time is potentially hindering us instead. It’s about not having enough time to do real thinking because it’s easier to do the “fast tasks” (immediately do-able) [...]

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Interactive Architecture

By Chungaiz | Published: September 2, 2008

I’ve had these great examples of interactive art and building projections in my head for a while now, but thought I should share them with TheScrapBook! The Graffiti Research Lab is an awesome project, not in the least for their two great inventions – Throwies and Laser Tag. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser [...]

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