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The Word Garden is a new collaboration at St. Michael's College in Colchester Vermont, as part of their Teaching Gardens

- Similar to magnetic poetry, but with stones outside

- A good example of staff and faculty from different departments working together.

- A set of 350 words from the stone artist, Chris Cleary (On the Rocks Stonecarving Studio).

http://www.youtube.com/SaintMichaels

"'365' is a knitting clock created by german designer siren elise wilhelmsen. according to wilhelmsen, time is a concept which unites us all, making it the lowest common denominator. on the one hand, time appears to be a as physical phenomenon, logical and easily divided into the past, present and future. on the other hand, time can be viewed very subjectively. how long a minute, an hour or a year takes can depend on how time is experienced in different situations. however, this does not alter the fact that a day has 24 hours, one hour has 60 minutes and one minute has 60 seconds.

'365' seeks to give a physical manifestation to the change of time. drawing from the change that is witnessed through the growth of human bodies and hair, the same concept is found in '365' which translates time through the growth of knitted material. the clock houses a circular knitting machine with 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder and roll of yarn. moving in clockwise direction, one day leads to a complete round, while a year gives users 2 meters of a complete scarf."

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/10606/siren-elise-wilhelmsen...

http://www.ufunk.net/en/humour/eizo-pin-up-calendar-2010-le-nu-plus-quin...

A brief conversation between the two men. Not much is said, but it's a window to another time: the overlap between the industrial age and the modern age, when people can make passing remarks about Hitler's attitude toward the public reception toward science fiction, and "Citizen Kane" needs a gratuitous plug to build awareness of it.

This would be great for stop-motion animation.

I like how dark it is. And I like the name "Filth Wizardry"

http://www.filthwizardry.com/2010/06/diy-sand-art-lightbox.html

The view from my office in Delaware.

This is way cool.

Mr Doob has created a web-based drawing tool called Harmony. It's coded in flipping JavaScript. JavaScript!

I made the picture of the bull above, in about 5 minutes. The great feature of Harmony is that you can feel like a great artist even when the computer is doing most of the work.

You have to have an HTML-5-compliant browser, such as the latest iterations of Chrome or Firefox in order to use it.

I haven't coveted the new iPad much, but this would be great on one of those.

from Mike C.

Some of the most charming visual experiences I've seen in the past ten years have been made by Czech artist/filmmaker/game designer Jakub Dvorský, creator of both Samorost and Machinarium.

Now, he's working with Jan Sverák, who directed the very charming Kolya, to create Kooky's Return which looks wonderful.

From the official site: kukysevraci.cz

"When asthmatic, six-year-old ONDRA is forced to throw away his scruffy, sawdust-stuffed old teddy bear, KOOKY, he prays for the safe return of his furry friend. Soon afterwards, across town, Kooky is about to be crushed in a rubbish dump when he suddenly comes to life, making his escape into a mysterious forest. The naïve, cuddly Kooky needs help to survive amongst the rough-and-ready creatures of the forest and he finds it when he meets the crotchety forest guardian HERGOT. Hergot is in charge of watching over the forest, but he has his enemies too – the malevolent NIGHTSHADE plans to take over the forest, by proving that the short-sighted but good-hearted Hergot is not up to the job of guardian.

Using puppetry and live action, Kooky is both an inventive, thrilling family adventure and a celebration of the childhood imagination."

What do you see?

A quilt?

A tile floor?

A Maurits Cornelis Escher - style tessellation?

Nikolas Schiller makes tessellated art from (satellite?) maps.

From Mike C.

"The Barbican today unveiled its latest art commission, which has seen one of its gallery spaces transformed into a walk-through aviary by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. He has strategically placed plugged in electric guitars as perches and cymbals containing water and seeds as feeders. As the birds fly around and land on the instruments, or even wipe their beaks on the strings, the visitor will hear the amplified results."

The "concept" in this kind of art-piece seldom interests me. If someone makes a piece involving music (or what they call music) then it has to sound good, or at least interesting. This guy seems to have succeeded. You can hear the audio here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/interactive/2010/feb/26/culture-barbic...