funny

just to lighten the mood a little...

one of the funniest things I've seen. you gotta love Fukasawas style!

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Bright LED

hey,

check this out, the results from a lighting competition, very inspirational!

Bright LED

...I really like the light drop!!

grabed it from DesignBoom!

have a good one,
ben

color/mood

Hey,

check this out, it's an adobe-sponsored color scheme site!
I used this site A LOT for different design stuff, mostly digital.
But it can totally help when creating for example mood-boards.

kuler

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ps.: I am going to close this blog tomorrow for unregistered users and make it exclusive for registered ones!
so if you wanna read it, sign up and post!!

Light Installation next to the Willyburg Bridge

to all the 'burgh hipster, does anybody know what the three light installations are on the house on the right side of the bridge when you come walking from Manhattan (the Peter Luger side)??
It's next to the water...

ah man, can't describe it better!

It looks like giant LED lights that change color fluently... and it's beautiful!

ben

Graffiti Research Lab

Hey ppl,

the GRL (Graffiti Research Lab) is a really really cool artist interface/group "dedicated to outfit graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication", as they put it on their website.

They for example did a light graffiti thing, which is really impressive (hint hint)

GRL

link to flickr with pics from their Hell's Kitchen light graffiti thing... awesome!

hell


laters,
ben

Advanced vehicle

ok kiddies,

here's a cool thing related to our vehicle project that is due today!
the dutch artist and recent TED speaker Theo Jansen builds these "life forms" as he calls it, powered by wind!!

pretty amazing...

Strandbeest



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Egg Masters

Japanese TV, Technology |

Beta Gel is a soft silicone gel developed by Tokyo-based Geltec Corporation. It is an improvement of Alpha Gel, a shock absorbing Geltec gel that is currently being put to use in products such as shoe soles and the protective lining of portable radio equipment. While Alpha Gel is pretty damn good at softening blows, it loses out to Beta Gel in the following test:




Yes, that’s right: They dropped an egg onto a sheet of Beta Gel from the roof of a 22-meter tall building, and the thing didn’t break!


-Jake