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Art and Astrophysics
The University College London’s Astrophysics department is the first, as far as anyone can tell, to have an artist in residence. Here’s a short video talking about the collaboration. There’s a great quote around 2:00, “she’s looking at, essentially, the same universe from a different point of view.” (via Punctuated Equilibrium)
Schram: The Samurai of Lovely
I love this poem. Slap-choppers!
Welcome to RadarLake
I wrote this post over a year ago hoping to put it up when I felt RadarLake was well underway. I think I’m a little late with that considering we’ve had almost 10,000 visits. I’m posting this now because it’s also going to go onto the “About” page letting people know what this page is [...]
Weekend puzzles: Samorost and Machinarium
Amanita design, a group of Czech video game designers, are the masterminds behind the point and click puzzle games Samorost 1, Samorost 2 and Machinarium. The landscapes are unusually eerily beautiful–in the Samorost games , many of the landscapes are actual photos of moss patches, mushrooms or logs blown up to look as though they [...]
Your choice: Fat Ass, poutine or the Eagle Cam
You can read about an international movement of running races called Fat Ass, gourmet poutines or watch the Eagle Cam. That’s right. Eagle Cam. Or you can listen to Iron and Wine below. Or you can do none of those things. It’s all in pi anyway.
Weekend watching: Motown takes over the White House
Here’s an excerpt of Stevie Wonder singing at the White House as part of PBS’ “The Motown Sound: In Performance at the White House”. You can watch the entire show here. Watch the full episode. See more In Performance at The White House.
The distribution of album reviews
This is way cool. Every album reviewed by Pitchfork in 2010 on what the statistics-inclined would call a histogram showing the distribution of reviews over a year. I could talk about this distribution statistically but that would be boring (to some–ok many). Click on it instead! It’ll bring you to the site which is interactive!
Story from North America
If you see something more bizarre today, let me know:
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Don’t let anyone stifle your creativity:
