New(ish) art site

Plugged Art is a fairly new art site with some interesting goings-on in today's art scene. Check it out. (And I added it to "Friends of GFL" if you'd be interested in visiting it later)

Fantastic photography

Melanie Einzig is one of my favorite photographers.








blog of New York photographers

More Melanie Einzig (includes USA and

even more Melanie Einzig (includes wedding and events)

recursive biology

Alan Turing, who is famous for the Turing test, which is an objective and very famous test for artificial intelligence, also did some work on pattern recognition... but not in computer science... it was in biology...

Read about Turing patterns (which violate the principle of entropy here).

And this brings me to the concept of Mendelbrot's fractals, which are found all over nature. They are infinitely repetitive. Each corner and curve is repeated down to infinity. Here is a video. Notice that each time the camera zooms, the same pattern appears. Another anti-entropic concept.



And that one reminds me of this blast from the past:


THING I WANT: barnacle storage pods.

Oh the puns...

"Financial chairman"
Via.

Ladybugs, ink on the walls, 70s pictures, blueprints and 9

Ladybug infestation:

Via.


ink calendar spreads ink across your wall.
Via.

Trailer of the new animated movie 9, which is coming out September 9th and looks pretty good.

Blueprint art.

Interesting (possibly disturbing) 70s-looking photography that has definite reference to pulp fiction and the like.

I'm going to Rotterdam until Tuesday evening.

I'm going to Rotterdam until Tuesday for the Society for Text and Discourse's annual meeting. I'm looking forward to meeting Herbert Clark and Danielle McNamera, along with seeing talks by Jean Fox Tree, Rick Dale, Dale Barr, Adrian Bangerter, Art Graesser, and Michael Schober... among others. I might not be posting for a couple of days. I leave you with these random technologies and crafts.


Here's a robot you can make out of paper or cardboard:

Visit this blog entry for a downloadable template.


And here's a robot kitchen timer. She lets you know that the time's up by moving her head and playing a samba tune.


It's available on Ebay for almost $40 in BIN after shipping, or you could take your chances and bid on it. It's cute, but probably worth about the price of shipping if you ask me. I'm just sayin'.


Here's a rotating rock climbing wall:

It senses where you are with lasers and rotates (or stops rotating) depending on your movement as you climb it. there's a video here.


There's a whiskered robot rat at the University of Bristol. Also see my previous post about the University of Bristol's robot Jules.

Free stuff and things to make from Orange.

I just found all kinds of neat things on the How about Orange blog.


1. First off, there is a feature on these paper toys:
The templates to make these yourself are at Marshall Alexander's website.


2. Then there are these cute little mice:

The directions to make your own pair are available (and free) here, at SewingStars.com.


3. A video tutorial on how to create your own carved stamp from Geninne's Art Blog. I think it is good to skip around the video. You probably don't want to sit through the whole thing, but it is kind of neat to skip around and see the steps.

More of Geninne's tutorial is on her blog here.

Geninne also has an Etsy shop. See how great her stuff is? She was a featured seller on Etsy recently.

4. Picture frame silkscreening (with free templates!) from Martha Stewart.


5. Free wallpapers for your computer like the ones pictured below.

These and more are available for free download at the Kindred site.



As I mentioned above, all of these are via How About Orange. She's also got a tutorial on how to mod podge a paper bowl, links to free greeting card and thank you card downloads, printable gift tags, customizable and super neat business card .pdf downloads, instructions on how to make a basket from newspapers or magazines (plus how to decorate them with paper flowers). It's a nice blog. I've pretty much shared all my favorites from it here, but you might want to visit it yourself in case you like some things I've left out!

Texas star party.

In an older post here on GfL, I mentioned a $160 camera for taking time-lapsed shots of flowers. IF I were willing to pay $160, this is one more idea that I have for it.

LIST: HANNSpree TVs.

Plush TV.



Rhino TV.


HANNSMilano handbag TV.


ugly TV.




TV based on cello.



TV based on bugs and plants.



Fries TV.



Boombox TV.


They also have TVs for every sport. This one is for the NY Yankies; it has the emblem on the back.

They also have laptops and computer monitors, which I was somewhat surprised about. All of their monitors and laptops are completely normal looking, and have absolutely no quirky themes whatsoever. Go figure.
Via & via & via & via & via.

Amanita muscaria is a mushroom.

In an older post here on GfL, I mentioned a $160 camera for taking time-lapsed shots of flowers. IF I were willing to pay $160, this is one idea that I have for it. It's pretty similar to the actual intended use of the camera, except that a mushroom is a little different from a flower.


The Amanita muscaria is a mushroom best known for their distinctive appearance with bright reds and yellows with white spots.
Via the Presurfer.