September 13, 2006
The Art of Spreadsheets
Danielle Aubert, a Detroit-based graphic designer looks inside the box for inspiration, turning Microsoft Excel spreadsheet columns into brilliant canvases. By tweaking cell colors, fill patterns, and border styles, Danielle was able to create psychedelic designs. 70 of those designs will be available in her latest book called A Year’s Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel.
Posted by richard ting at September 13, 2006, 03:56 AM
September 12, 2006
Rafael Lozano Hemmer at bitforms
On Friday, September 15, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, the renowned new media artist draws on surveillance and phantasmagoria for his second solo exhibition in the U.S. The exhibition is called Underscan, Relational Architecture 11. It's a large-scale public art project commissioned by the East Midlands Development Agency in England. Thousands of "video-portraits" taken in Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham will be projected onto the ground of the main squares and pedestrian thoroughfares of these cities. At first, the portraits will not be visible because the space will be flooded by white light coming from the world’s most powerful projector. As people walk around the area, their shadow will be cast on the floor, revealing the video-portraits. The short video sequences begin with the subjects in a still position turned away from the camera. As they appear within pedestrians' shadows, their bodies move and their heads turn to look straight at the pedestrian, potentially giving rise to an interesting range of interactions. When a shadow moves away from a portrait, the portrait likewise reacts by losing interest and looking away.
Posted by richard ting at September 12, 2006, 11:03 PM
September 10, 2006
Google Maps Mania
It's been about one year since Google Maps launched with its' open API and there are already hundreds of specialized "mash-ups" flooding the interweb. You can find "mash-ups" in all assorted flavors, from parking garages in New York to Fatal Crash Maps to Sex Offenders. A list of most of the Google mashed maps can be found on Google Maps Mania.
Posted by richard ting at September 10, 2006, 11:32 PM
September 04, 2006
NetworthIQ Social Network + Money Blogs
NetworthIQ is a social personal finance manager designed to make monitoring your net worth easy and fun. It's a social networking site that is for money fanatics what MySpace has become for the music-obsessed. Users sign up and create profiles based on their net worth. They can then compare themselves with others by age, income, job, or geographic location, link to other users, and track their progress on a blog. NetworthIQ is the first production of Fourio, a startup based in Portland, Oregon.
Check out the site.
Also, while we're on the subject of personal finance, give these personal finance blogs a glance.
myopenwallet.blogspot.com
moneyblognetwork.com
pfblog
