Alien Invasion

If an alien species ever wanted to invade, with hostility or otherwise, this would be a nice trojaney way to do it.

Via Moment Factory

Knowledge Work Hurts Your Head (and Hands) (video)

An interesting analogy: with the development of factories in the Industrial Revolution, workers endured a human-machine friction that caused injury, physical injury, until tool refinement simplified or made processes more efficient and safe. (Of course it's a more complex issue and far from a fait accompli, but the point stands.) With the development of the Information Revolution, workers have had no end of human-machine frustrations, many ending up in physical harm (think RSI) and emotional strain (think stress, stress, and more latent stress).

I'm a big (BIG) Asana fan. They delivered an open house on their productivity web service a year or so ago and there is a little segment from that (still useful) overview that I'm capturing below. Thanks to Justin Rosenstein at Asana for the connection. (For the segment I reference, go to marker 39:39 and listen through a couple minutes to 41:15.)

Asana Open House from Jerry Phillips on Vimeo.

Audible Color (video)

So beautiful. From Hideaki Matsui's site:

Audible color is an audio-visual instrument. Sound is generated based on color detected by a web cam connected to a computer. Red, green and blue correspond with certain music notes. When the colors are mixed, the resulting secondary colors produce different notes. The size of the colors influences the volume and frequency of the notes played. Color detection and sound generation were created and are controlled using Processing code.

The system of audible color is based on a marriage between basic color and music theories. The colors of red, blue, and green are the visual foundation for color-mixing and the music notes A, D, and F are the base triad that corresponds to the colors. The secondary colors (colors made when the foundational three are mixed) of purple, teal and brown are tuned to the musical triad C, E and G. The visual of the mixing of red, blue and/or green mirrors the aural output of combined notes.

The ‘painting’ aspect is not restricted to water droplets from a pipette. Numerous experiments were performed using substances such as acrylic paint, food dye in milk with soap, and ordinary household objects. Each investigation created a new type of fun and easy gestural music-making.

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Infinite Energy (video)

OK, so a cat always lands on its feet and the toast always lands butter side down. This is the source for a logical loop that leads to infinity.

via Adweek

Bring a Little Beauty Into the World

Adorable adorable.

One: A Space Odyssey

O yes.

Video: Incredible Human Face Video Mapping

Everything is not what is seems! 1 Actor, 2 video projectors, and amazing creativity and technology from Oskar & Gaspar. Technology can make us into anything and take us anywhere! 

Human Face Video Mapping by Oskar & Gaspar. Making of. from Oskar & Gaspar on Vimeo.

Color Washing, or Synaesthesia

The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin was the most noted synaesthetic to me, with his ability to connect tone and color. The video below shows, perhaps, what he might have seen, in kind, when composing or contemplating his compositions. For the rest of us, the music is extraordinary and the visual accompaniment...well, see for yourself:

Full article here: Norman Perryman