Firstly, sorry for the lack of posts lately. I’ve been preoccupied with numerous projects at the agency and have been working stupid hours. By the time I get home at night, all I want to do is sit on the couch in silence and sip on an ice cold Pabst. That said, what follows is [...]

I referenced Wordle a few weeks back in our discussion on data visualization. If you missed the post, Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, [...]

Technorati estimates that the blogosphere has doubled in size every six moths for the last three years. On average, 175,000 new blogs are introduced to the web each day. For the typical individual/organization, keeping up with, communicating and making sense of this data is difficult/impossible. How then, can one effectively communicate what is happening [...]

Julius von Bismarck’s Image Fulgurator is a modified camera that’s capable of projecting images onto street furniture (a bench, wall, sign etc.) where they appear in the photos of strangers, but remain invisible to their eyes.
So how does it work? According to Wired, the “half guerrilla-art stunt and half homemade-gadget awesomeness” has a “slave unit [...]

Pam Anderson was initially discovered at a BC Lions football game. Dressed in a Labatt’s Beer t-shirt, she was randomly selected from the crowd and her image was projected on the stadium’s wide screen. Since then, she’s converted 90% of her body to plastic, sniffed loads of powder, dated rock stars, contracted hepatitis C and [...]

I recently found out about Pasona O2, an underground rice and vegetable farm located beneath an office building in Tokyo’s Otemachi business district. Once the vault of a major bank, the 1,000 square meter facility now produces rice, tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries, and other fruits and vegetables, as well as 100 different flowers and herbs.
Hydroponics (a [...]