Biopixels

Bioengineers and biologists from the University of California San Diego have created neon signs made from millions of bacteria that light up in unison.

lipstick enigma

This computer-driven sentence-generator, using rules and lexicon written by the artist, invents and writes a new line of text, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector. The sentences mix the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising.

Lipstick Enigma from Janet Zweig on Vimeo.

via:
laughingsquid

Freedom From Porn

Awesome sign prank rebuttal to Steve Job's conservative stance on porn.

Please see the whole story and video on tinynibbles.com

street tweet (full size)

Twitter, originally uploaded by *USB*.

Logorama the Movie

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.

In this film there are two pieces of licensed music, in the beginning and in the end. All the other music and sound design are original. The opening track (Dean Martin "Good Morning Life") and closing track (The Ink Spots "I don't want to send the world on fire") songs are licensed pre-existing tracks. All original music and sound design is by, human (www.humanworldwide.com)

via:
http://braincraft.com/

blog NSFW this

blog this, originally uploaded by violet.blue.

title says it all.

see also:
Violet Blue puts the S.F in N.S.F.W.

SketchUp: goodbye Bryce hello Sang

If you're a SketchUp user you've met Bryce, and maybe even noticed that he's recently been replaced.
In her most recent post to the SFMOMA Open Space blog,Stephanie Syjuco tells the story of the life and death of Bryce, his replacement, Sang, and their fans.

Read:
Default Men and 3-D Diversity: Bryce vs. Sang




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Game Over - Giant Robot

I just checked out the Game Over- Art of the Gamer Generation, show at Giant Robot.
I give it two callused Nintendo thumbs up.