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Bring Me Sunshine | Artists' eBooks
Tony White is the author of novels including Foxy-T (Faber and Faber) and the non-fiction work Another Fool in the Balkans. Tony also co-edited the fiction anthology Croatian Nights (Serpent’s Tail/VBZ). Balkanising Bloomsbury is a fiction project by White which reworks the archive of existing texts about the Balkans, from travel writing, Hague tribunal transcripts and mass media texts, using experimental literary techniques to create completely new works of fiction which explore ideas of European identity.
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Andy Huntington Interaction & Sound » Cylinder
Des sculptures 3d en papier du son.Cylinder grew out of a desire to create truly complex objects which hint at the overwhelming detail present in nature. Working with Drew Allan we wished to create algorhythmically generated works which would be rapid prototyped using techniques capable of sculpting extremely complex objects.
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October 2009
From Drupal to Movable Type - François Nonnenmacher (EN)
a migration of a blog from Drupal to Movable Type. The process is pretty much undocumented out there, apart this helpful tutorial from Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp, which unfortunately will not work if you're using Drupal 6. Hence this little how-to, which works with Drupal 6, but that you'll have to adapt to your own Drupal installation.
Photojournalist Danfung Dennis: How I cover the Afghanistan war with the 5DmkII « DSLR News Shooter
Corey Goldberg: Selenium RC with Python in 30 Seconds
Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms. It has various pieces (Core, RC, IDE, etc), and I struggled trying to figure out how everything fits together and works. At the end of the day, all I wanted to do was use Selenium from my Python code to drive a browser session.
Temari - a set on Flickr
My grandma's works.
She becomes 88years old in April 2009.
She had started learn Temari when she was 60s, and then she got a diploma of Temari.
Now she is teaching it as a volunteer at every Sat.
MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 2 | MySQL Performance Blog
A couple of good things to remember here: #1 resolving 1 bottleneck can open another bottleneck that is much worse. #2 is to understand that not all API’s are created equal. Additionally the configuration and setup that works well on one system may not work well on another. Because of this people often leave lots of performance on the table. Don’t just trust that your current API or config is optimal, test and make sure it fits your application.
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September 2009
Rhizome | ArtBase
Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 2503 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends. We welcome submissions to the ArtBase; they are reviewed by our curatorial staff on a monthly basis.
VC blog » Blog Archive » Leaving no trail behind
At the present time, we have access to countless cuneiform documents, including economic records, letters, and literary works from early Sumerian times, produced over 4,000 years ago. Many of these artifacts are essential to our understanding of the values and practices that shaped this ancient culture. Can we aspire the same longevity for our modern cultural artifacts?
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festival @rt outsiders 2009
These are environments that were, until recently, uninhabited by human beings and that contemporary science and technology turn into "inhabitable" places (Antarctica, underwater world, outer space, deserts); but also those that are becoming "uninhabitable" due to the impacts of our way of life (pollution, technological accidents, economical pressures and global warming).
(Un)Inhabitable? – Art of Extreme Environments presents works that explore the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental fields as well as in the poetic ones.
my secret to happy relationship - alyson
http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2009/09/traci-french-my-secret-to-happy.html
Dada Visualization I sur Flickr : partage de photos !
One of the 8 works I created for the Data Art Show at the Pink Hobo Gallery in Minneapolis.
All these pieces are a pun on the new craze for data visualization. The goals of data visualization as I understand them are to make complicated issues more understandable, to make obscured connections visible and to reveal hidden patterns in the data. After all these tasks have been solved ideally the result should be aesthetically pleasing as well.
But when I look around what is being done in data visualization today I have the suspicion that in many cases the design is more important than the actual information and that the use of data is more an excuse to justify the use of aesthetics.
Since I do not have a problem with aesthetics for their own sake in these pieces I deliberately took the opposite direction. Since I wanted to create something visually interesting I made up my own data which would give me the desired results. All these works are the result of generative algorithms, so all the elements and their connections are actually data and not something I assembled manually in Illustrator.
