a blog full of images with one simple theme and a name derived from the japanese term for black and white
me news
the pulse of the city
…every day, millions of people check in on Foursquare. We took a year’s worth of check-ins in New York City and Tokyo and plotted them on a map. Each dot represents a single check-in, while the straight lines link sequential check-ins.
What you can see here represents the power of check-in data — on Foursquare, every city around the world pulses with activity around places every hour of every day…
the art of ‘thread wrapping’
the thread wrapping machine by artist antona alvarez:
…a tool to join different types of material with only a glue-coated thread to bind the objects. No screws or nails are used to join the different components of the furniture. By using this construction method, materials such as wood, steel, or plastic can be joined to form objects and constructed spaces…
tableaux d’intimites
french artist anne-laure maison shoots people’s windows at night and creates large-scale collages; which are somewhat reminiscent stained-glass church windows to me
nike+ staat+ selfridges
fascinating kinect-powered window displays for nike, at selfridges london, by local amsterdam agency staat
