crazy

Found on Inhabitat todayAny one point on a busy street can receive up to 50,000 steps a day, so imagine if you could take all that foot traffic and turn it into something useful – like energy! A new product designed by Laurence Kemball-Cook, the director of Pavegen Systems Ltd., can do just that. With a minuscule flex of 5mm, the energy generating pavement is able to absorb the kinetic energy produced by every footstep, creating 2.1 watts of electricity per hour.

View Through a Telescope

This painting represents the definitive outcome of several studies Giacomo Balla made following his observation of a partial eclipse of the Sun caused by the planet Mercury, which occurred on November 7, 1914. The eclipse takes place in the upper center of the painting, with a small circle, Mercury, encroaching on a large circle, the Sun. The dazzle of white triangles nearby can be explained as the impact on the naked eye as Balla looked away from his lens. The green cone may also refer to a specific retinal color effect experienced by Balla as he peered down his telescope. Balla was continuing his experiments in conveying the sensations of movement through space with the use of transparent planes, rectilinear and curving forms

I thought this was an interesting parallel to the post I made a few weeks ago with my version of a telescope.

first attempt

After much delay the first kite is finished. I want to mess around with the dye more so I can match the sky better on the day the photo is taken. The idea is for the kite to disappear.

together

good morning

Orrery

I would really like to make one of these

In the meantime:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/

tomorrow

I am going to the University of Pennsylvania veterinary lab. A field trip for Botched Taxidermy.

inside/outside

An accumulation of stylized objects that subvert their own use value, the interior becomes a reflection of the inhabitant's idealized self.

I just read part of Baudrillard's dissertation on furniture.

ugh.