Category Archives: Awesome

I will only put things in this category that I officially declare to be awesome.

Article: Gearing Kids Up For A Robotic Future With An Adorable, Programmable Bot On Wheels

Gearing Kids Up For A Robotic Future With An Adorable, Programmable Bot On Wheels http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682000/gearing-kids-up-for-a-robotic-future-with-an-adorable-programmable-bot-on-wheels

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Mid Century Cabinet Stereo with McIntosh 1700 Tube Amp weekend project

Cleaning McIntosh 1700 in garage

Our good friends in Blanco TX are downsizing and donated their old not entirely functional 1960′s Cabinet Stereo system to us last week. Fortunately they took immaculate care of it and although the speakers were popping and not working all … Continue reading

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Beethoven self portrait by Sergio Albiac

Beethoven self portrait by Sergio Albiac

Beethoven self portrait, a photo by Sergio Albiac on Flickr. Via Flickr:Generative collage using his music and signature (Sheet music from Piano Sonata No 8 – Pathétique)

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Reaction diffusion lamps by Nervous System

reaction lamps by nervous system

reaction lamps, a photo by nervous system on Flickr. Beautiful lamps created using reaction diffusion algorithms! These are awesome!

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Spider Babies! I ran into a female Wolf Spider carrying her babies on her back this evening!

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While on my evening walk with the dog I ran into this Wolf Spider ( Lycosidae ) carrying her babies on her back on the sidewalk. She looked to be an inch around.    This one was stockier than the other … Continue reading

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Boka Bon Chon Korean style drum sticks and wings, East Village NYC

Boka Bon Chon Wings, East Village NYC

I don’t recommend food all that often but I found this place in East Village with excellent Korean style spicy hot wings and drum sticks. It’s called Boka, and they serve a crispy version of Korean Bon Chon style wings. … Continue reading

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Flowers with Tendrils and Bombshell at Dallas Aurora 2011 in Downtown Arts District 10/28/2011 at 7:30PM

Flowers with Tendrils video still by Don Relyea

Flowers with Tendrils video still by Don Relyea   “Flowers and Tendrils” as well as “Bombshell” will be installed on the roof of the parking garage across from the Winspear on Friday 10/28/2011 as part of the Aurora Dallas 2011 … Continue reading

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PixelPhones – a huge display made with smartphones by Seb Lee-Delisle

Pixels for The People (quick snips) from Momo the Monster on Vimeo. Seb Lee-Delisle’s PixelPhones project syncs hundreds of phones in an auditorium live to create an animated performance during one of his creative coding speaking engagements! Seb used openframeworks, … Continue reading

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Sinusoidal landscape video made from camera on helicopter rotor

Nice accidental video art here =)

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Cornell finds out what happens when chat bots strike up a conversation

  My favorite excerpt from this is conversation is, “I am not a robot, I am a unicorn.”

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