Art blog BOOOOOOOM asked readers to submit classic art remakes using only a camera. While the most literal ones are admirable, I like the oblique approach to some others, like the Mondrian above. Click through for many, many more.
I am really excited about this 360° image from the Bridge, er, flight deck of the shuttle Discovery. Click for the full, draggable effect. It really looks like the 30-year-old technology that it is, but we’re only two centuries away from galaxy class.
For contemporary comparison, the cockpit of SpaceShip One, the first private sub-orbital spaceplane (“This is my adopted daughter Margot Tenenbaum”), seems to have fewer controls than most airplanes.
This fan-made credit sequence for the new Tintin movie got its creator, animator James Curran, a job directly from Spielberg on a future film. Apparently there are references to all 24 Tintin books in the piece. HD on vimeo. Who’s Tintin?
My sister, Darien, has long been a musical theater dynamo, but now she is starting to work professionally as an actor. When you go to auditions, having a personal website is near an expectation these days. At its simplest, a site is a place to provide a resumé and headshots, but it can also be more than that—one might find clips and reel footage, review excerpts, blog-style professional updates, and, hopefully, even learn something of the person through the site design itself.
I built a site for her with these things in mind. After an unscientific survey of the many WYSIWYG portfolios and flash monstrosities out there, I had a shortlist of what I wanted for a clean, modern site: styled web fonts, lightbox-like gallery functionality, mobile device friendly, no flash or surprise PDF links, and a flexible news section that she or others can update. The site is built using WordPress, and, while there are still a few finishing touches to put on, it is ready to go—which is a good thing, since she’s already sharing the web address on business cards!
Sometimes PBS shows this hour-long documentary by Richard Proenneke about his time in the Alaskan wilderness, but I’d never caught the whole thing. In it, he builds a log cabin and spends a year alone. And he would spend 30 more there after that. In contrast to Christopher McCandless and Timothy Treadwell, it’s captivating to watch a lifetime of peaceful experience at work.
A human-powered machine with bird-like wings was one of our earliest conceptions of flight. University of Toronto engineering students revived this design with modern materials and an assisted take-off. It’s a beautiful thing to watch, but the flight doesn’t touch the record set by MIT’s Daedalus.
