Chris Tackett
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Tim Heffernan at BoingBoing explains how a massive landslide at the world’s largest open-pit copper mine in Utah is a reminder that “sometimes it’s still the earth itself that shakes the world.”
The lost equipment was worth tens of millions of dollars, but much more significant is the fact that the landslide has shut Bingham Canyon down for an as-yet undetermined length of time. Much more significant because Bingham Canyon is not just another copper mine. Physically, it is the largest in the world, and it is among the most productive. Each year it supplies about 17 percent of U.S. copper consumption and 1 percent of the world’s. When a cog that big loses its teeth, the whole global economic machine goes clunk.
“Like most people it is the freedom and accessibility of the Internet that I find very inspiring,” INSA wrote to me, “and I like the idea of making artwork for the Internet as it is truly open to all to see and pass on and not kept behind gallery doors or in private collections.”
(via The Paradox of GIF-iti: Street Art You Can See Only Online - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic)
GIF-iti! I’m in love.
(via The Paradox of GIF-iti: Street Art You Can See Only Online - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic)
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“Brendan Ciecko has made an app which typography lovers can use to help make a record of old and typically unique lettering, much of which is slowly fading away. ”
(via Etsy Find of the Day: The iPad Typewriter | Wired Design | Wired.com)
What to do with that old typewriter? THIS.
When the ticker tape machine made its New York City stock-trading debut in 1867, the world saw the most cutting-edge communication system to date. Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium — and for the first time, trading was done in near real-time.
Fast-forward to 2006 and the launch of Twitter. In a way, equally phenomenal yet with a vast difference. As technology slowly draws us away from hard copies — books, albums, letters — Twitter is a system with no paper trail and little opportunity to create one. Until now.
~ Steampunk Ticker-Tape Twittertape Machine Lets You Tweet Like it’s 1899
That is what Timeline wants to become. But if Timeline is to succeed as a time machine, it has to look the way people want to remember their lives. We don’t want to look back at our lives and instead of remembering events with fondness be distracted or dissapointed by how terrible our photos looked. People are vain. We want to look good or at least have our photos look cool."
Facebook Paid Instagram $1 Billion for Emotion. What’s It Worth to the Environment?
…QR codes (or something somewhat similar) are placed on a factory floor in a grid solely to aid robots, there is nothing here for us humans to use. And yet the passage of the robots create a pattern, tracks from the wheels and circles where the robots turn and turn and turn. This is computer vision spilling out into the real world. It’s been there for a while now, bar codes have been around for years, but we can expect to see more of it. The testing and slow introduction of computer driven cars will most likely see special markings on roads & signs giving the cars instructions. All throughout shops, malls, streets and cities markings for machines are appearing. The first part of NA I’ve been paying attention to has been the examples of this spilling out, the bits of the city not meant for us. The second part of NA I paid attention to was what happened when artists began to deconstruct and respond to that encroachment, how can designing for robots influence our own design?
