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Fractal Geometry To Guide Reactor Construction

Fractal Reactor, 2000, model/sculpture

As opposed to design, architecture and engineering's typical limiting factor, Euclidean Geometry.

Such are the premises and theories, aspirations and promises, of the scientartist, Todd Siler, a creator whose ideas and works I was first exposed to earlier this century.

It is sort of like he is whirling in an endless loop, circa 1974, with a push from 1999, that finally came around in its angular gyre to be monumentally relevant today.

Prius meets Logan's Run.
Chaos theory meets Three Mile Island.

The style and aesthetic, which may be an acquired taste for some, but is worth it, is generally close to O'Keefe meets Frankenthaler meets Kandinsky meets Duchamp meets earth science text book illustrations meets senseless doodling.

Some more of Siler's art for technology's sake:

Below Clouds Of Consciousness

A Truizm

Lights, Geometric Informatics, Action!

Camera-free, trippy, and wow!

3D Capturing: Geometric Informatics, Velodyne LIDAR
Artist: Radiohead
Song: House of Cards

The making of House of Cards:

Windows Vista's Calming Teas

This ad has been out for a while, but we just caught it today. It speaks manuals in a multimedia alchemy of succinct tea titles and deadpan delivery.

Teas:

• Crashytime Chamomile
• Pomegranate Patience
• Raspberry Restart
• Missing Driver Mint

Quite clever. Quite useful. Watch.

From Amp Relaunch To Motley Bird

Such a range of imagery and outlook to contemplate. But, both are all about not brooding, so, *impulse wraps around both:

From waking up hungover in a strange bed to aligning the cosmos and pattering through daisy fields whilst flinging poesy into the far flung universe.

To dally in the darning needle haze or to jet invincibly through the gray urban night?

The Dreamster likes the hummingbirds, so we will flit through the capillary dew with them. But, when the sun dips itself into the brine, I will dash about the barren city scape seeking fast cars and glossy branding.

Amp and Motley Bird.

Mega Zune Gadget Has Honalee-style Promotion Site

four realms to find them all
four realms to amuse them
four realms to integrate
and in cyberspace, refuse them

We have seen many recent examples of this type of sprouty, fidgety, dappled, impulse power, 3D Flash illustration and animation, most notably the Adobe Creative License My Space Cherry Coke  site, a kind of more animated version of the My Space Cherry Coke site.

But, after a brief moment of contemplation, we have concluded that this site outshines with sheer overwhelming volume of rainbows, yellow submarines, and sesame street splashes to the point that 80 gigabyte media players (the sites branding raison d'etre) barely hold their own.

Site: Zune Journey.

Flashmo Bots

Fierce, biomass-powered, terrarium-housing, long-tailed robot beasts confront the wild hermit. He shrieks and emits sparkling lightning and flaming fans in maddened, tumultuous pulsations.

The bots look perplexed. They flicker like old black and white movies, then flee.

The Flea

Vincent Price's successor in transformation.

The cardboard-extended feet suggest great leaping power. The tense, tightened cardboard-spring body suggests additional potential for this being to hurl itself into the air, over the gossamer garden, and down the hillside.

Artist: Lucy McRae and Bart Hess aka LucyandBart
Title: Spring

Time Magazine Blog Nerd World

You might not think it possible, but Time magazine's Nerd World blog is tame but satisfying light reading that covers all *impulse areas: the newest gadgets, up and coming sci-fi and graphic-novel-based movies, nerdy music, and video games.

It all seems a little contrived and full of artful device, but, as a Grecian goldsmith would attest, every sincere poet wishes to be gathered into the artifice of eternity. And, it is more easily paced than the frantic Engadget and its spawn.

A New Antiaging Gadget

Talika Light 590

Every so often, I search keywords such as 'antiaging' and 'gadget' to stay informed and to make sure I am not missing anything interesting. Well, if this gizmo does what is claimed, then it is an important step forward in antiaging gadgetry.

Straight from the product description: "It is utilised regular for 45 seconds on the wound decent and promises to turn digit ordinal of wrinkles in meet 28 days."

Totally rad.
 

Invader Fractal Suggests Intellivision As Well As Atari

Levitated.net's Invader Fractal would have been a useful tool for early video game design, and, in  a MOMA Digital Installation-kind-of-way, is a quirky game-like experience in and of itself, although I dread that critics from The New Yorker would expound more on what statement about viruses, xenophobic anxiety, and the asymmetry of modern society, the artist was trying to express than about the sheer fun imparted to gamers.

The underlying game engine is actually a 'region of space filled recursively with 15 bit combinatoric objects affectionately called Invaders', which is another way of saying that Hercules is fighting the Hydra.

A Cornucopia of Wacky and Wild Inventions

halfbakery

This site generates the same giddy-positivistic resonation as Gizmodo and io9. And, anyone who browses and thinks it rant and madness should read biographies on Newton, Van Gogh, Lewis Carroll, and Mary Lamb, and then delve into a cryptogram, followed by a difficult sudoku puzzle, then an old-school GRE logic games section, and then write a sonnet.

This should effectively eliminate any false posturing of the sort that can hinder progress, enlightenment and understanding. Embrace Technology Review, New Scientist, Engadget, and, now, halfbakery, and realize that the threshold between them is permeable and uncertain.

Anything else, and the savants will slip by unnoticed to everyone's detriment.

Illustration is a T-Shirt decal, designed by Jutta Degener, available on a webpage on www.panix.com

Blue Lizard Suncream, Lilliput Review and *impulse = Abstract Gadgetry

Perhaps a more general, encompassing, abstract gadgetry review would excite and inform more than DMGadget. The stretches of fancy, the suspension of disbelief, and the bombast needed to portray everything in the cosmos, in technology, nature and the imagination, as a gadget would be galactic.

To review anything of interest, but to review it as if it was a just-released gadget, may just be the theme of our next offering, antiaging4geeks *gauzygizmo or, better yet, approaching40 *elfmachine.

For now, the eremite stirs in his hovel. His antics have not been detailed in some time.

Photo is of a sextant.

DMGadget

Critical fumble decks, dice, battle maps, miniatures, character sheets, books, dungeon walls and doors, artifacts, relics, potions, rings, staves, scrolls, tomes, manuals, charts, maps, crystal balls, wands: game aids or gadgets?

The threshold between the real-life prestidigitations of d20 and the rods, staves, and wands wielded and spun in the fantasy matrix is tenuous and, on certain evenings, disappears altogether, leaving a sprawling band of errants brandishing swords and pointing mystic bolts at each other while rampaging down back alleys and Silicon Valley.

Since Engadget really isn't a geek site, perhaps DMGadget could be a misfitted alternative that touts the latest epic spell component as vigorously as the latest XML expression.

Mini sketched armory by Nicholas Webb

A Tokyo of the Mind or Freshness in Media from the Scobleizer

There are those on the cutting edge who dabble with pencil and paper, nudging solvent pods up and down the page, dreaming of poesy and of parsing. Then there are those who conjure contraptions for Google and Microsoft while remaining firmly in the reliable in daily life.

And, finally, there are those who are the green drop in the surge, the elf in the slipstream, the darning needle caught in the gust. This is the Scobleizer. Every other tweet on Twitter by this ever-breaking-wave tech-blogger involves adopting some sort of new media delivery/web 2.0/ADHD/networking and web gadget.

And, I must admit, it is pretty exciting sometimes. All the while, Mr. Scoble remains a hard-nosed, uncompromising journalist. The gleaming widget above is an embed of the latest Scoble offering.

I openly admit to not caring much for the Scobleizer at first, but my psyche has since warmed to the glitz, glimmer and optimism. Splendidly geeky. Marvelous.

Gather your biocomputational craft elements and raft down the cosmic stream, through the hazy ether, and over the cyber-foam.

JBananaGap + BurgerForeverYoung + iPhone = Cool

Forever Young at McDonalds

It feels like a golden age. Forgive the endless, eternal and shameless optimism here, but the mass availability and affordability of chic, boutique, and sleek fills me with tears. Everyone and their pet can now expect affordable exquisiteness, discounted high end, and the WalMartization of every quality brand. Hipsters and shop owners may lament this development in the same way selfish guild members rued the spread of knowledge and mass production throughout the renaissance and industrial age, but they certainly have no monopoly on what is cool, fun, and fashionable, and thus do not warrant or deserve consideration. Enjoy!

Though a strict vegan and rarely a patron of McDonalds, for all that is exuberant and thrilling about the near future, I still hope McDonalds offers all its splendid reimaged products at McDonalds prices. This way, the golden age will continue and the golden arches can, in some small part, lead the way.

All Flash Websites Have Such A Webglossy Finish

Movie sites, glittering sites, graphic novel sites, multimedia sites, and art sites, designed 100% in Flash, are sooooo fun!
This is The Incredible Hulk 2008 film website.

Link: The Incredible Hulk Movie | Edward Norton, Liv Tyler & Tim Roth | NOW PLAYING.

Mechanical Clock Charm

The most delightful blogs are those like little mechanical clocks, like pocket watches, ever ticking in their updates, ever creating cosmos in their content, in their ideas as much as in their layouts, in their psychical structure as much as their digital terrain. Typepad's Folio layout is delightfully stodgy and also, quite modern, and, thus, perfect for all of our sites. Laughing Squid also has a beautiful layout and beautiful content to go along with it: it is similar to the Folio layout, though its main column has a fluid width. There are many other sites, enough to be worthy of a mechanical-clock-charm blogroll.

Here, blogging is delightful. It is done with little intention of gain. It is serene, tranquil. It is The Brothers Grimm in CGI. It is elven tales of the hyper-new.

Photo by Isabelle Grosjean