This photograph, released by sculptor Daniel Edwards on Tuesday, March 28, 2006,shows his sculpture of singer Britney Spears giving birth. The life-sized ‘Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston,’ seen at the artists studio in in Moosup, Conn., will be shown at the Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery in the Williamsburg section of New York beginning April 7.
Update: Oh so classy pose!
Free tickets to see Lyrics Born, Hieroglyphics, Los Amigos Invisibles, and a bunch more in SFC April 15th. Go get it!
On the more innocent side, checkout this nice Yahoo! Maps and video mashup. There are some sweet videos in the Lake Tahoe region.
Don’t use your camera phone for something you don’t want your mom or dad to see. Or for that matter, the whole internet. I’m kinda late on this story, but apparently, “Tammy” and her boyfriend used their video camera phone to record their x-rated endevours. Sweet, except, her “rival” stole her phone and posted the vids on the net.
Download here: NSFW!
Now you can stalk your favorite celebs via Google Maps.
Over 300 kinds of visual mapping systems!
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.
Rapid prototyping at RCA.
Oscar Narud concieved a three-dimensional labyrinth game in which there’s a tunnel inside a toy figure. You drop in a steel ball through its mouth and have to get it out of the eye. [via we make money not art
Julian Bleeckr has some dope drawings on flickr and some killer insight on his personal site. Also, read his “Manifesto for Networked Objects”. Too late, but LIFT06 looked like it was interesting.
“Blogjects – a neologism Julian Bleecker came up with for objects that blog – exemplify the soon-to-come ‘Internet of Things’, i.e. a network of tangible, mobile, chatty things enabled by the miniaturization, the ubiquity of consumer electronics and a pervasive Internet. In its most basic form, a blogject is not dissimilar to people that blog – it is an artifact that can disseminate a record of its experiences to the web. It would report the history of its interactions with other objects and with people. Because it exists as a physical object, occupying physical space, proximity and movement play an integral role in the interaction syntax. A very simple example is the AIBO “roboblogject”: a robodog that harvests its daily experiences from its surroundings and shares these experiences in the form of a blog; presenting pictures and account of the day (like running distance, or people and objects encountered).”
Seminal (I like that word) article about the future of mobile 2.0 by the folks at Open Gardens.
Cool looking web site with an equally cool looking book—I’m a sucker for coolness.
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, the second book to be published by the Design Institute, is a scholarly anthology on techniques and contemporary applications of mapping, in four sections:
MAPPING NETWORKS
MAPPING CONVERSATIONS
MAPPING TERRITORIES
MAPPING MAPPING
Featuring 40 essays by U.S. and European historians, designers, cultural critics, geographers and social scientists, copiously illustrated with over 250 color images in extensive visual “gazetteers” — including specially-commissioned portfolios by artists and designers — ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING investigates:
how new technologies of navigation and location are emerging to chart “virtual” terrain such as social networks and online conversations
how these new mapping strategies borrow and reinvent metaphors adapted from the cartography of physical terrain, considered at various scales — urban, regional, continental, global
how new modes of representation of spatial data are evolving to explore the potential for collective “bottom-up” (rather than “top-down”) mapping
how cities, communities and social networks are being re-envisioned, as artists and designers use technologies such as GPS, GIS and digital interface design to devise alternative mappings of social and spatial relationships.
