Well, we now know how one might translate some of Danielewski‘s zanier ideas into a tangible paper book.
What you are seeing here is an amazing, handmade German art book called Thoughts on Dreams that has been threaded with hyperlinks to direct readers from one important section to another. It is sublime. I also love how it really illustrates the idea of interconnected content in a way that does, actually, look like a sinewy spider’s web or neural network.
(Engadget)
“We’re rehearsing for our own future – why not do it as pleasantly as possible?” – Syd Mead, futurist
The second installment of BMW’s films on the future of mobility has just been released and it combines a plethora of things I like including: retrofuturism, cars (obvious) and visionary artist, Syd Mead (who is awesome).
So, I’m out and about today. And, again, it’s been a snowy, blustery drive across the state of Pennsylvania. Luckily, I-80 was the road of choice and it’s actually plowed (especially when compared to, say, Route 22.) Given the five hour ice-drive I got to undertake last week when going from Brandywine to Altoona, I’d say today has been downright boring. Since I haven’t had a chance to post them until now, enjoy the photos from East to Central PA:
From “Are we taking evolution into our own hands?“:
Today we continue to live the same process, but in an enormously accelerated fashion. For better and worse we are transforming ourselves from a Homo sapiens, a species aware of its environment, into a Homo evolutis, a species that directly and deliberately begins to control its own evolution, as well as that of many other species.
I’d add that we are now a species that can directly and indirectly alter the evolution and survival of the entire planet – and have been for decades.
(CNN)
First there was the deployment of a much snazzier design language and now this: Kia has unveiled its SuperBowl commercial, one that gives us aliens and temporal vortex-summoning Mesoamericans. I’d even build an Optima online (update: I have) after seeing something so keyed in to my mind.
(Autoblog)
At least that’s how it feels when you are driving into a complete white out. It seems like nearly all of my travel this 2011 semester has been timed to perfectly match a recent or approaching winter weather event. I’ve had flurries, unplowed roads, thundersnow, snowy fog, etc. Today’s trip to Brandywine: calling for ice and sleet. Add a thick crust of road salt to all of this and you have a perfect summation of life on the road as a traveling consultant in winter.
This is a good day on route 22, I’m afraid.
Now let’s put some of that Spring into this semester’s designation, shall we?
I promised myself at some point in the past year or so that I’d stop forgetting the Paleofuture blog I love so much. (Yeah, that worked out.) While I wasn’t watching this time, the creator decided to start putting together video montages on specific topics related to the world of tomorrow. Upshot to just realizing this now: not one but two videos to get started – one on food, one on the apocalypse.
(Did anyone else hear Orson Welles say “nuke-u-ler”?)
I sometimes forget that even The Cure could be susceptible to the nonsensical pop madness that was the 80s. Thanks for reminding me, VH1 Classic!
David Herbert’s 2005 sculpture/monolith VHS is an 8-foot-tall video cassette copy of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. What does this piece mean? I’m not entirely sure, but I’m just going to assume it’s an audacious statement against Betamax.
(io9)