Archive for the 'Art' Category
A neat Flash application that simulates sand in a browser window!
thisissand.com
A neat SVG application that do not make use of Flash/Silverlight or Java for interactive user-interface, just vanilla SVG.
Blobular
The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another. According to the creators — this building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime; and would be energy self-sufficient and even feed extra power back into the grid!
Dubai plans ‘moving’ skyscraper
Google mashup with photos and wikipedia entries!
Google mashup
So cool! :-)
Super Mario in 14kB Javascript
PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Supports Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, MySpace, Google Images, Yahoo Images and more. Available as a Firefox add-on and IE Plug-in. Awesome tool for all photo enthusiasts.
PicLens
Flickr images as they are uploaded. Clever mashup.
 Flickrvision
New money is pushing Bollywood into Hollywood’s league. From industrial conglomerates wanting to build entertainment empires to foreign fund managers seeking to profit from individual projects, Bollywood, as the Indian film industry is widely known, is attracting new money like never before. Rise of Bollywood Inc.
Dream Factory
Quite impressive collection!
Pictures from the sky
“A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians.”
Advanced geometry of Islamic art
Wow, an excellent essay - only read it when you’re calm and free-minded, otherwise, it will be a boring lengthy nonsense.
Curve, Split, New, Limits, Recipes and Different.
Is it worth being wise?
Why we must give up our obsession with apparently-pretty rocks, for which the supply is artificially reduced and which leads to huge suffering of fellow human beings.
The greatest story ever sold is a fantasy covered in blood
Create commons books at Connexions, with an excellent one of music theory; I was impressed as the book started not with the expected (this is a musical stave, with the notes) but with what a standing wave was, and worked from there.
Introduction to Music Theory
“If you have a tendency to procrastinate, at least do the most enjoyable thing first”. Thanks to Matthew for the recommendation.
A matter of opinion by Roger Hicks
Interested in Photography? Shunya has some of the best travel pictures of India. Check’em out.
Shunya’s travel pictures from India
I’ve never seen such amazing photography in my life! The 360 degree view makes you feel you are there and time has frozen. Some examples: Château de Chenonceau, Eiffel Tower and Times Square. Which one is your favourite?
panoramas.dk
