Project from Bİ'ŞEYLER combines projection mapping and fashion using a dress as a performance canvas:
Perception is the first creation of fashion designer Ece Özalp, who is
inspired not by what is observed in nature but by perceptions created by
exceeding her own perceptions.
The project created based on Perception is a quest both of her and of her illusion…
The civil war in Syria has prompted the first withdrawal from the Arctic ‘doomsday vault’ – a seed storage unit built on an island between Norway and the North Pole, to safe-guard the world’s food supply in the event of a global catastrophy, such as an outbreak of disease or nuclear war.
Researchers in the Middle East have now asked to withdraw a range of drought-resistant crop seeds, including wheat, barley, and grasses, from the vault. They would usually get these seeds from a facility in Aleppo, Syria, but even though the seeds are still there and safe in cold storage, the scientists are unable to access them as a result of damage to the surrounding buildings caused by the war.
The doomsday vault was built into the side of a frozen mountain on the Svalbard archipelago in 2008, and it’s been specially designed to keep crucial crop seeds safe and ready to replant following pretty much any disaster you can think of.
In 1816, illiterate Finnish explorer Alpert Redford Walker stumbled upon a small, unmanned grocery store hidden in a clearing deep within the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. Pleased by the bins full of exotic fruits and fresh vegetables and impressed by the shelves well stocked with reasonably priced snacks, Walker learned that this remarkable little store was called “oha paddaki'e,” or “Apple Cabin,” by the local Paiute tribe, who nevertheless denied any knowledge of the store’s origin. Feeling that Divine Providence had guided him to the market, Walker donned one of the aprons that hung waiting in the employee break room and thereby assumed ownership, ensuring Apple Cabin’s tradition of savings + quality would remain strong to this day.
200 years later, you (+ your family) can finally enjoy the look and feel of Apple Cabin Foods… in a genuine calendar! Featuring ALL TWELVE colorful Apple Cabin ads, this handsome, chronologically precise 12” x 12” full-color calendar showcases the savings + quality that have been the store’s legacy since Alpert Walker clocked in for his first shift all those years ago. While the savings + quality are the focus of each month’s image, several attempts have been made to add a delightful photographic background that is occasionally appropriate to the month in question. Small clipped coupons decorate the periphery of the monthly grids, pushing the already unbelievable savings into realms of value difficult for the human mind to grasp.
The Apple Cabin 2016 Calendar is being sold to benefit Reading Frenzy, a small press bookstore in Portland, OR. Independently owned and operated by Chloe Eudaly for over 21 years, Reading Frenzy has been a tremendous help to me and many others. 100% of calendar sales go to the store, so that it might continue to help others achieve their dreams, realize their hopes, and also reach their goals of reaching for the tops of the limits of those dreams, as well as believing in dreams, goals, and hopes, plus riding the lightning to the top of their dreams’ limits/goals/achievements.
The calendar is officially available for pre-orders! It will be shipping by mid-October, 2015, in plenty of time for the holidays. If you’re interested, pre-orders are best, since they help set the print run.
Experts at the National Oceanography Centre believe the monster is a type of siphonophore – similar to jellyfish – known technically as Bathyphysa conifera.
In 2005 physics graduate Bobby Henderson created the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a protest against the teaching of Intelligent design – a theory that the creation of the universe can be explained by intelligent argument and not natural occurrences…
This 2.5 minute video just might change your life.
Writer/director Jason Headley has put together a brutally honest guided mediation “for the realities of today’s world.”
It’s pretty much all you need in the morning when you wake up to get you ready for the day and before you go to bed at night.
“If your thoughts drift to the three-ringed sh*t show of your life, bring your attention back to your breathing,” the voice says. “And with each breath, feel your body saying: ‘F*ck that.'”
So sit back, relax and let out all of that pent up aggression while the waves splash along the shore.
These are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a
strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same
method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is
synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the
sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of
spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always
Fibonacci numbers.
Google Research release images related to their work in Neural Networks - just as they are used for image recognition and learning, when they are used for image creation, the results are incredibly surreal:
Artificial Neural Networks have spurred remarkable recent progress in image classification and speech recognition.
But even though these are very useful tools based on well-known
mathematical methods, we actually understand surprisingly little of why
certain models work and others don’t … We train an artificial neural network by showing it millions of training examples and gradually adjusting the network parameters until it gives the classifications we want.
… So here’s one surprise: neural networks that were trained to
discriminate between different kinds of images have quite a bit of the
information needed to generate images too … The results are intriguing—even a relatively simple neural network can
be used to over-interpret an image, just like as children we enjoyed
watching clouds and interpreting the random shapes. This network was
trained mostly on images of animals, so naturally it tends to interpret
shapes as animals. But because the data is stored at such a high
abstraction, the results are an interesting remix of these learned
features.
Watched this over the weekend; blown away. Goes a bit darker and more serious than his other well-known works at times, but still has the moments of light-hearted / surrealist humor as well. Recommended, if you're in the mood for such.
Self-proclaimed “Marble Master” Jelle Bakker has built a giant machine in which over 11 thousand marbles are sent through a winding, jungle-themed maze for no reason whatsoever.
And it’s pretty amazing.
Warning: It’s also very loud, and it goes on like that for about 6 minutes. So make sure to turn your volume down ahead of time.
The whole this is about 33-feet long, 4-feet wide and 6-feet tall.
He started working on it back in April and expects to have it completely fine-tuned by sometime in June. This presumably will include adding some noise-dampening features.
Chalayan dresses AyaBambi in a film by Jacob Sutton, choreographed by
Aya Sato & Ryan Heffington, for MOVEment AnOther’s innovative
exploration of dance and fashion through film.
The sestina is an unusual form of poetry: Each of its six stanzas uses the same six line-ending words, rotated according to a set pattern:
This intriguingly insistent form has appealed to verse writers since the 12th century. “In a good sestina the poet has six words, six images, six ideas so urgently in his mind that he cannot get away from them,” wrote John Frederick Nims. “He wants to test them in all possible combinations and come to a conclusion about their relationship.”
But the pattern of permutation also intrigues mathematicians. “It is a mathematical property of any permutation of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 that when it is repeatedly combined with itself, all of the numbers will return to their original positions after six or fewer iterations,” writes Robert Tubbs in Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art. “The question is, are there other permutations of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 that have the property that after six iterations, and not before, all of the numbers will be back in their original positions? The answer is that there are many — there are 120 such permutations. We will probably never know the aesthetic reason poets settled on the above permutation to structure the classical sestina.”
In 1986 the members of the French experimental writers’ workshop Oulipo began to apply group theory to plumb the possibilities of the form, and in 2007 Pacific University mathematician Caleb Emmons offered the ultimate hat trick: A mathematical proof about sestinas written as a sestina:
Bonus: When not doing math and poetry, Emmons runs the Journal of Universal Rejection, which promises to reject every paper it receives: “Reprobatio certa, hora incerta.”
(Caleb Emmons, “S|{e,s,t,i,n,a}|“, The Mathematical Intelligencer, December 2007.) (Thanks, Robert and Kat.)
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