In order to reduce the clutter in my journal (such as it is) I will now be posting picture links a Tumblr log instead of in LiveJournal.

Bjarke Ingels Group’s design for Superkilen (a district of Copenhagen) has colour-coded areas for parks, sports, and the bazaar, and will have public sculptures of 57 objects from 57 cultures (name-checking Marcel Duchamp’s Objet Trouvé).

‘Darwin at Home is an open source software project that aims to bring the process of evolution into your computer at home so that you can see it working. From the initial projects to evolve locomotion it is now moving towards a more generic framework for evolution in general.’ See the weird creatures that evolved in the informational womb of the computer in this ten-minute mellow video. (Via Jason Kottke.)

One fast:

(Via Bottom Half Nude

( And one slower one )

Material Wonders: Tara Donovan’s travelling retrospective
Large quantities of ordinary things (plastic cups, pencils, etc.) arrayed in huge sprawling organic heaps. Some of the pieces can’t be transported and have to be invented afresh each time they are shown. The exhbition is in the US but you can click through the link to see a slideshow on the New Your Times. (Via Kottke.)

Peapod electric car by Chrysler [Flash] (Via Dezeen)

Bandcamp Screencast from Ethan Diamond on Vimeo.

‘Bandcamp is a free hosted publishing platform for musicians, taking the technical challenge out of setting up a site — transcoding music into different formats, streaming audio, analytics, payment processing, and so on.

Band websites are often pretty bad, hacked together by a friend of the band with Flash and Dreamweaver, or worse, by the record label. There are exceptions, but mostly, it's a sea of Flash intros, popup windows, mystery navigation, and 30-second sound clips.

Bandcamp is trying to change that, giving every album and track its own page with clean URLs and semantic markup, with the accompanying SEO benefits. Even before launch, they're topping Google results for many searches for song titles of participating bands.’ (From an interview with the founder on waxy.org)

Also! They claim that they have cover art that works in iTunes.

(Via beatonna)


(Via this response)

Jeff Koons Versailles—at last, a venue that can live up to Koon’s superscalar so-kitsch-they’re-profound sculptures!

Manga about the founding of Apple Computer by Mitsuru Sugaya. Entirely in Japanese so I have only the fuzziest idea of what is going on. (Via Cult of Mac)

Natural History at Selfridges (Dezeen) • London’s museum of things one can buy is holding another special exhibit, of jewellery influenced by the natural world, described as “a heady mix of taxidermy, genetic-engineered jewellery and natural pearls”. Runs until Sunday 7 September.

A wine-bottle design that I though would appeal to cleanskies

Warning: contains gruesome Japanese horror. (Via Bottom Half Nude)

Are you a fan of the Harry Potter movies? Do you like horses? Do you enjoy Annie Leibovitz’s photography? If so you are probably an avid reader of Vogue and have already seen this.

My bike now has new rear tyre (with Kevlar for puncture resistance!), brakes, and front brake cable. It now feels super fast. The first time I rode it after getting back from the shop I touched the brakes and almost fell off. :-)

‘Where There’s a Sea’, the second episode of the Starship Intrepid fan series has been released. My baby brother korvarthefox features again as grumpy first mate Dr Garren with what looks like an even more ludicrously antique zap gun than in ‘Heavy Lies the Crown’.

In further cultural news, we went to see The Dark Knight. You know how oxfordslacker and archie used to have endless debates along the lines of ‘What it terrorists burst in and said you had to either marry your sister or a tiger?’ This was essentially ‘What it terrorists burst in: The Movie’, with any number of contrived, soul-wracking dilemmas proposed by the Joker, all depending on (a) assuming his description of the situation was true and complete, and (b) an amazing ability to set enough charges to demolish a building in a matter of minutes (something that professional demolition experts would normally take weeks over).

There is a second opening night of the Caption Comics Collective exhibition tonight at the Jam Factory from 6ish, acting as an introduction to the Caption convention itself, which opens Saturday morning.

We are shipping an interim release at work today, so don’t expect me to be leaving work particularly early.

( Big photo )
Eureka Car Park, in Melbourne. ‘The distored letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards.’ (Via Daring Fireball)