Fatescapes by Pavel Maria Smejkal, 2009
A series of iconic photographs in which the subject is digitally removed to leave only a background.
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The Cat and the accordion
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11 Wikipedia Lists
- List of Fictional Ducks
- List of People Who Have Been Pied
- List of Premature Obituaries
- List of Fictional Drinking Establishments
- List of Sports
- List of TV Spin-Offs
- List of Films Considered the Worst
- List of Sesame Street Muppets
- List of Fictional Universes in Film and TV
- List of Planets in Science Fiction
- List of Cryptids
by giovanni anceschi (1973)
Spotted at the coffee shop (at Kafe Bohem)
Matt Wuerker/Politico (03/06/2013)
Coffitivity - Increase Your Creativity!
Adds a coffee-shop ambiance behind your music, which they say boosts creativity. I’d prefer it solve JS bugs, today, but creativity is good too.
It is surprisingly immersive.
Every Fucking Web Site
Designers, communicators, marketers and brand strategists: take note.
Personal favorite under header number three: “Because we saw three buckets of shit content on our competitor’s front page and we’re god damned if we’re only gonna have two.” — Michael
H/T: @lorakolodny
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Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919
On 3 May 1919, loyal elements of the German army (called the “White Guards of Capitalism” by the communists), with a force of 9,000, and Freikorps (such as the Freikorps Epp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt) with a force of about 30,000 men, entered Munich and defeated the communists after bitter street fighting in which over 1,000 supporters of the government were killed. About 700 men and women were arrested and summarily executed by the victorious Freikorps troops.
Just cut up some new desktop background images.
German student builds electromagnetic harvester to recharge a battery
Dennis Siegel, a student at the University of the Arts in Bremen, Germany has built what he calls an electromagnetic harvester—it converts electromagnetic fields in the immediate environment into electricity to recharge a common AA battery. He’s won a 2nd place award in the HfK Bremen Hochschulpreis 2013 competition for Digitale Medien, for his efforts.
Electromagnetism is all around us of course. In addition to natural sources, such as lightning, it’s also given off by virtually every electronic gadget, device or machine humans make. Siegel (and many others) have noted that the electromagnetism around us all could be converted to electricity and used for some purpose. The problem of course, is that the comparatively small amount of it in the air around us isn’t enough to make much electricity—the device Siegel built takes up to a day to charge a single AA battery. But that’s not reason enough to not build and use a device, as he has demonstrated. He’s added electronics to give the device the capability of capturing electromagnetism in two ranges—one below 100Hz (electrical mains, etc.) and another for capturing those above 100Hz (Blue tooth frequencies etc.). On top is a red LED to indicate how strong the electromagnetism is in the area and on the back is a magnet for affixing the device to a metal surface near a good source.
The particulars of the electronics inside his device haven’t been detailed (likely to prevent copycats) with a description only of “coils and high frequency diodes” being put to use to allow for the conversion. But that clearly isn’t the point of his device. Instead, it highlights not only the fact that we live our lives in a constant state of bombardment of electromagnetism, but also that all of the energy from all of the collective devices in use in the world today, is currently going to waste. But, because of small devices like the one Siegel has built, it becomes possible to envision banks of such devices sitting on roofs (or other places) making use of that electromagnetism to add to the electricity generated by other renewable sources, such as solar or wind collection devices—just another way to demonstrate a higher level of intelligent power generation and conservation.
Credit: Dennis Siegel
