Pattern Recognition

darksilenceinsuburbia: Simis Gatenio. Architectural System...

Fri, 10 May 2013 01:16:33 -0400

Simis Gatenio. Architectural System Organism Machine. Acrylic on wood.

fuckyeahfluiddynamics: The acoustic signatures of many animals...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:17:31 -0400

The call of the white beaked dolphin represented by wavelet transform.

The humpback whale's call, represented by wavelet transform.

The Northern cardinal's call represented by wavelet transform.

A Northern minke whale's call represented by wavelet transform.

The chirping of crickets represented by wavelet transform.

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

The acoustic signatures of many animals contain features we humans cannot appreciate, given the limited range of frequencies we can hear. In fluid dynamics and many other fields, scientists and engineers have to find ways to analyze and decompose time-series data—like acoustic pressure signals—into useful quantities. Mark Fischer uses one tool for such analysis, a wavelet transform, to turn the calls of whales, birds, and insects into the colorful snapshots seen here. Wavelet transforms are somewhat similar to Fourier transforms but represent a signal with a series of wavelets rather than sinusoids. They’re also widely used for data compression. (Image credits: M. Fischer/Aguasonic Acoustics; via DailyMail)

hyperallergic: Zach Collins, “06zc13” (2013), cut and paste...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:25:19 -0400

hyperallergic:

Zach Collins, “06zc13” (2013), cut and paste collage

kateoplis: isms

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:25:49 -0400

kateoplis:

isms

Photo

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:11:34 -0500

William Gibson: The Net Is a Waste of Time

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:58:57 -0500

William Gibson: The Net Is a Waste of Time:

kateoplis:

“I COINED THE WORD “CYBERSPACE” IN 1981 IN ONE OF MY first science fiction stories and subsequently used it to describe something that people insist on seeing as a sort of literary forerunner of the Internet. This being so, some think it remarkable that I do not use E-mail. In all truth, I have avoided it because I am lazy and enjoy staring blankly into space (which is also the space where novels come from) and because unanswered mail, E- or otherwise, is a source of discomfort.

But I have recently become an avid browser of the World Wide Web. Some people find this odd. My wife finds it positively perverse. I, however, scent big changes afoot, possibilities that were never quite as manifest in earlier incarnations of the Net. […]

In the age of wooden television in the South where I grew up, leisure involved sitting on screened porches, smoking cigarettes, drinking iced tea, engaging in conversation and staring into space. It might also involve fishing.

Sometimes the Web does remind me of fishing. It never reminds me of conversation, although it can feel a lot like staring into space. “Surfing the Web” (as dubious a metaphor as “the information highway”) is, as a friend of mind has it, “like reading magazines with the pages stuck together.” […]

Toward the end of the age of wooden televisions the futurists of the Sunday supplements announced the advent of the “leisure society.” Technology would leave us less and less to do in the Marxian sense of yanking the levers of production. The challenge, then, would be to fill our days with meaningful, healthful, satisfying activity. As with most products of an earlier era’s futurism, we find it difficult today to imagine the exact coordinates from which this vision came. In any case, our world does not offer us a surplus of leisure. The word itself has grown somehow suspect, as quaint and vaguely melancholy as the battered leather valise in a Ralph Lauren window display. Only the very old or the economically disadvantaged (provided they are not chained to the schedules of their environment’s more demanding addictions) have a great deal of time on their hands. To be successful, apparently, is to be chronically busy. As new technologies search out and lace over every interstice in the net of global communication, we find ourselves with increasingly less excuse for … slack.

And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today, in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time, to wander aimlessly, to daydream about the countless other lives, the other people, on the far sides of however many monitors in that postgeographical meta-country we increasingly call home. It will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun — we seem to have a knack for that — but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator’s dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you’re working.”

July 14, 1996

ecosavvyrebel: Pizza in terms of hunger and...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:22:21 -0500

ecosavvyrebel:

Pizza in terms of hunger and food

via theartoffood

lookingforether: “Our brains are a vastly parallel and...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:27:56 -0500

lookingforether:

“Our brains are a vastly parallel and distributed system, each with a gazillion decision-making points and centers of integration. The 24/7 brain never stops managing our thoughts, desires, and bodies. The millions of networks are a sea of forces, not single soldiers waiting for the commander to speak. It is also a determined system, not a freewheeling cowboy acting outside the physical, chemical forces that fill up our universe. And yet, these modern-day facts do not in the least convince us there is not a central “you,” a “self” calling the shots in each of us. Again, that is the puzzle, and our task is to try and understand how it all might work.” - Michael S.Gazzaniga

christinasong: I was contacted by HOW Magazine to illustrate...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:14:23 -0500

christinasong:

I was contacted by HOW Magazine to illustrate Bryn Mooth’s article “Bringing Creativity to Business” (featuring Todd Henry) in the latest November issue. This was easily one of the most outstanding articles I got to work with simply because of how relevant it was to my life both professionally and personally. I probably read it a dozen times and it very much helped reevaluate my process of working as well as my viewpoints on it. If you could use some tips on staying creative in your business or if vice versa– your everyday business environment keeps you from being creative, I’d highly recommend this read.

Art direction: Bridgid McCarren

mapof: RICHARD HAMILTONMaps of Palestine, 2009-10

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:24:05 -0500

mapof:

RICHARD HAMILTON
Maps of Palestine, 2009-10

nparts: From Twinkies to Trump, Sarah Lazarovic gets a head...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:45:15 -0500

nparts:

From Twinkies to Trump, Sarah Lazarovic gets a head start on charting November’s progress — so much has happened already!

Oh My. The Beauty and love with which this is...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:31:25 -0500

Oh My. The Beauty and love with which this is hand-written!

existentrillest:

Do The Right Thing” Screenplay, First Draft, March 1988, Written by Spike Lee

harvestheart: Technological Mandala (computer and radio...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:03:56 -0400

harvestheart:

Technological Mandala (computer and radio components)

Work from Italian-born, London-based artist Leonardo Ulian who carefully solders a myriad of computer components, circuitry and microchips to create these precisely symmetrical mandalas.