With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
The Stock market skirt
Nancy Paterson made a blue taffeta & black velvet party dress that represents the real-time stock market situation by lowering or raising its hemline. When the stock price rises, the hemline is raised, when the stock price falls, the hemline is lowered. this concept is based on the ‘Skirt Length Theory’ which describes that skirt lengths are a predictor of the stock market direction. According to the theory, if skirts are short, it means the markets are going up. And if� skirt are long, it means the markets are heading down.
The idea behind this theory is that shorter skirts� tend to appear� in times when general consumer confidence and excitement is high, meaning� the markets� are bullish. In contrast, the theory says long skirts� are worn more in times of� fear and general gloom, indicating that things are bearish.
Although some investors may secretly believe in such a� theory, serious analysts and investors -� instead of examining skirt length to make investment decisions – insist on� focusing� on market fundamentals and data.
Disarm – or we will reforest you!
Back in 1997, Moshe Alamaro “designed conical canisters, of a starchy biodegradable material, which each contain a seedling packed in soil and nutrients. The canisters are dropped from a low-flying plane, so that they hit the ground at 200 m.p.h., and imbed themselves in the soil. Then the canisters decompose and the young trees take root. A large aircraft could drop as many as 100,000 saplings in a single flight: Alamaro’s system could plant as many as a million trees in one day.” Whole forests, fired from F-16s.
Or, branching off from an earlier comment on the agri-militaristic possibilities of garden wars, you’d get landscape design by Cruise missile: launched from a ship in the Indian Ocean, soon there are rich deciduous forests in the hills of Afghanistan.
The machine and the experience of the machine are becoming one. I’ve seen these kind of things in computer games, but now they are becoming real— Feels like plugging in to the Matrix— Can’t wait for someone with a heart rhythm disorder to come up with some fresh breakbeats!
Pimp My Heart is a performance/vehicle intervention that uses an invented HBBB (HeartBeat Bass Booster) system to amplify the heartbeat of a car driver in real time through an interface with a beefed up car audio aftermarket system. The intervention/invention achieves an ultimate unity between car and driver.
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A nice video made by the Mill. See it here
Looks like Debbie Mollenhagens How to grow an Orangina bottle.
The new Bob Ross has arrived: his name be Gautam Rao.
This painting shows a magnified part of the dock in OSX. I especially wanted to highlight the Picassoesque face on the Mac logo. Sometimes the smallest details can be the most artful. To my knowledge no one else has made a series of Mac paintings. My goal is to find the extraordinary in everyday experience. Visit my blog for more information
Before we used to paint nature, now we moved on to next nature.
An umbrella that provides information about the likelihood of rain so that users can make a simple, informed decision about whether to take the umbrella with them as they leave their home. after retrieving the weather data via a wifi connection, the handle glows more intensely with the increased chance of precipitation.
a purse that visually keeps track of valuable items such as keys, wallets, personal identification cards, & cellular phones through various sensors embedded in the bag. if something is missing, an iconographic pattern associated with that item ‘lights up’ on the outside of the bag.
RAP is a new generation of painting robots designed for Museum or long exhibition displays. It is completely autonomous and need very little assistance and maintenance. RAP creates it’s own paintings based on an artificial intelligence algorithm, it decides when the work is ready and signs in the right bottom corner with its distinctive signature. The algorithm combines initial randomness, positive feedback and a positive/negative increment of ‘color as pheromone’ mechanism based on a grid of nine RGB sensors.
Also the ‘sense of rightness’ – to determine when the painting is ready – is achieved not by any linear method, time or sum, but through a kind of pattern recognition system.
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The Sababa is the first real time lava visualiser kit of global city flows. It takes the lava lamp one step further by reconstructing it according to the language of the current on-line culture.
The result is a new generation of interactive lava’s that are connected to a growing network of data sources around the world.
The word sababa means “cool” and is borrowed from Hebrew low tech slang. It stands in contrast to the hi tech words used to describe the product the Sababa stands for, indicating that behind the hi-tech quality of our product there is also a valued low-tech requirement.
The Sababa might end up being a satire, it might turn to be vaporware, but it is also cool and desirable – it is Sababaware.
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When I was a kid, I thought that people that could make smoke circles were really cool. Now I think machines that can do that are even cooler! Made by Takeshi Ishiguro
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Pripyat was built as a town for workers at the Chernobyl power station, where the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred 20 years ago. The town was abandoned 36 hours after the explosion.
Nature has been reclaiming the abandoned town. Wild boars roam the streets at night. Birch trees have been shooting up at random, even inside some apartment blocks.
It’s literally culture becoming nature. See the whole series here.
A tree house that looks like a fruit hanging in a tree. Found here
