MWH Inspiration

Bought a brilliant new book today. Dieter Roth, Diaries.

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:45:18 -0400

Bought a brilliant new book today. Dieter Roth, Diaries.

New book come today, just in time for trip to Sweden.

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:34:00 -0400

New book come today, just in time for trip to Sweden.

Just finished the book and now I need to watch the film! but...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:29:34 -0400

Just finished the book and now I need to watch the film! but maybe not in German…

wowgreat: (via Some Sort of Geometry / Milan Dobeš)

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:13:17 -0400

wowgreat:

(via Some Sort of Geometry / Milan Dobeš)

journo-geekery: [Participation effects in crowdsourced...

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:22:47 -0400

journo-geekery:

[Participation effects in crowdsourced historical weather data transcription*] « Old Weather Blog

Caption: “16,400 little boxes – one for each person who’s contributed to oldWeather. The area of each box is proportional to the number of pages transcribed, between us all we’ve done 1,090,745 pages.”

Far-too-addictive crowdsourced science project Old Weather—which asks volunteers to encode Royal Navy ship logs from pre-WWI logbooks—shares some details about their volunteers. I found myself contrasting this with the dearth of diversity in Wikipedia contributors, among others.

* My concise, dorky title. Their own doesn’t describe the data much at all.

Nina found a sign for me in Edinburgh.

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:12:38 -0400

Nina found a sign for me in Edinburgh.

artandsciencejournal: Colour Theory: A Brief History These...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:45:57 -0400

artandsciencejournal:

Colour Theory: A Brief History

These diagrams are 19^th and 20^th century attempts to systematize colours and describe how the human eye perceives them. In the late 18^th century, scholars began to develop colour theory according to the understanding that three primary colours – red, yellow, and blue – could be combined to create all others; these hypotheses would be instrumental in forming early theories of colour vision and the science of perception. Although Sir Isaac Newton and Da Vinci both developed theories of colour, the German poet Goethe organized colours into the “wheel” we know today in his Theory of Colours in 1810. Albert Munsell developed his Color System which was later adopted by the US Bureau of Standards later in the century. Of course, these standards would influence not only contemporary explorations of the science of vision, but the creative disciplines of art and design as well.

(Images from VintageTreasureShop, Beats925Books, MOMA’s Inside/Out, Postcard Club of NYC, and Imprint)

- Erin Saunders

thequickbullet: Wait… 39% of internet users still use...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:10:53 -0400

thequickbullet:

Wait… 39% of internet users still use IE ? But…why?

Sad to see the book and records stores go.

And what about Safari?

Photo

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 06:07:56 -0400

penamerican: cosascool: The Wizard of Oz Book by Dennis...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:58:07 -0400

penamerican:

cosascool:

The Wizard of Oz Book by Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube

“The Wizard of Oz”, all of the 140,000 filmstills of the movie are published. On 98 pages the images are arranged chronologically in rows from left to right. One page contains 1440 pictures which correspond to exactly one minute of film. So the page numbers also show the minute of the film from which the stills were taken.

Very cool.

Nice system.

eleventheleven: Sektorus is a quartz watch with the body...

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:48:15 -0400

eleventheleven:

Sektorus is a quartz watch with the body merging into the band. Two wedge displays manage your hours separate from minutes and seconds. The current date shows in a small window. The body is aluminum and the band is made of silicone.

(Designer Vladimir Pavlenko)