A staggering visual history celebration of Prague’s 600-year-old Astronomical Clock from Oct. 2010, with video mapping projection. This artform slays me. Unlike all of the people taking flash photography during a light show.
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600 Years Celebrated in Glorious Fashion, or “Clock Blockers”
Posted in Architecture, Art, awesome, Video Games, tagged czech republic, mapping, old, prague astronomical clock, show, town square, video on May 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Tenacity of the Limb Rat
Posted in Architecture, Innovation, Rube Goldberg, Squirrels on January 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I never understood why la Ardilla is not the dominant scavenger in the shared human landscape. They may not be as smart as rats, but they’re 10X faster. Squirrels can scrabble up the side of a windy day. They’re very talented jumpers, and persistent in the way that is only possible when desperate hunger and super-high metabolism overlap. To wit:
This takes place in England – the owners of the yard added each piece of the Rube Goldberg contraption slowly so that when the squirrel learned one section and got the nuts, they then added the next section. Finally it ended with what you see on the clip! It took over 2 weeks to get to this point.
Architect Gary Chang Transforms One Room Into 24
Posted in Architecture, Art, Creativity, Design, Music, Writing, tagged Cary Chang, Frank Black, Massiff Central, Ray Bradbury, Show Me Your Tears on May 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
…right before your eyes. Remarkable.
Now, I’m not advocating living in boxes on top of each other- it’s my pig-headed belief that trees and restaurants make a city, not buildings (I’m from that Ray Bradbury school), but it really is an ingenious use of space, using every part of the architectural buffalo, if you will. More ideas like this, please, along with smart cars, solar paint, eco-friendly Cannonball Runs in which the victor uses the least amount of fuel versus the asinine most to simply go in a circle real-fast-like (hyuk).
And, since I mentioned Ray Bradbury, here’s a nice little interview he did with Frank Black (yes!) who’s Massiff Central is probably in my top 20 songs of all time. The album version from Show Me Your Tears is epic– here’s an acoustic version from the Christmass album.
Ray Bradbury interviews are fantastic, by the way. Just a take-no-prisoners, opinionated old codger who’s pretty much right about everything. I aspire to that level of imperious curmudgeony-ness.
Kenwoode 