new painting: Progeny, 48” x 78”, oil, enamel, and shellac on canvas, 2013, by Samantha Keely Smith.
Incredible abstract art. The atmosphere is fantastic.
creativity
My screenplay for a Steve Jobs biopic is coming along nicely.
Missing the bit about the poster of a single rounded rectangle that hangs over his bed, but A++ will read again.
Geeklist - Shows how long it would take for your password to be cracked in the sign up form.
That’ll convince me.
Lateral Thinking
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years.
Which room is the safest for him?
Time to Explore.
Work done by the now defunct Seagulls Fly.
Washer beats.
Another stunning ad from Goodbooks. Doesn’t top the previous one though.
Martin Bennett’s incredible family portrait
Apple vs Samsung by Helder Ollveira
Windswept is a wind-driven kinetic façade consisting of 612 freely-rotating directional arrows creating a large-scale observational instrument that reveals the complex interactions between the wind and the building. The wind arrows serve as discrete data points indicating the direction of local flow within the larger phenomenon.
Marco Stefanelli’s unique lamps are made from trees
How will car design change once we get driverless cars?
While electric vehicles all have good acceleration, an ideal robocar trip is perfectly timed with traffic lights and other traffic so it does not stop and start regularly. We like this because it’s more efficient, but it also means that acceleration is rare, and need not be that zippy. Indeed, for comfort, you may prefer it slow.
This may allow transmissions to be designed differently, to be cheaper and more efficient — or even non-existent.
Sport driving vehicles will continue to have good acceleration, of course. Whistlecars would probably want this acceleration too.
Today, the price of a car is often strongly linked to its acceleration. This may change.
Not all of the ideas listed are practical, some may not even make sense; but the general direction of Brad’s thinking is on-target.
Corinne Pant decides to riff on Panasonic’s Note headphone design by Sholz & Friends
Clever iPad Docking Station by Scott Eaton at Venus of Cupertino
