Dream Office

"... a video by Internet pioneer Howard Rheingold, who's a writer, artist, and futurist. The video is a guided tour of his 'dream office,' the space behind his house where he does his writing, thinking, painting, and sculpture."

Howard's Dream Office

(Via MAKE: Blog.)

Urban Typography

More things which can be done with Processing:

Urban Typography

Urbanized Typeface PV (Complete ver) from yang02 on Vimeo.

(Via Beyond the Beyond.)

Epilepsy is dancing

A haunting music video for a song by Antony and the Johnsons, who are completely new to me:

Larger version at Pitchfork: TV

(Via boingboing.)

A more traditional virtual reality

Sometimes there's no substitute for large piles of atoms:

(Via The Presurfer.)

Water irony

John Thackara's Designer Tweets from America:

"Obama's new energy secretary, Steven Chu, has just stated that 'we're
looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California'.
Immediately following our workshop, a state-wide water state of emergency
is declared.

http://www.vimeo.com/3195518

http://www.flickr.com/gp/92494461@N00/6161Hi

Chu's warning about 'no more federal water' contains an irony: The Central
Valley Irrigation Project, which enabled Caifornia's agriculture to flourish,
was authorised in 1935 as an infrastrucure project to beat the Great Depression.
Eighty five years later, the state's dependence on long-distance irrigation is
a structural impediment to sustainable water and agriculture. Now Obama
promises to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure -
to beat the depression.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-warming4-2009feb04,0,7454963.story"

More about John Thackara.

(Via Beyond the Beyond.)

Not like my drive to work!

Heart-stopping gymkhana session. The real excitement starts about two minutes in. Be sure and hang around for the Segway.

(Via The Presurfer.)

System 7 on iPhone

More people with too much time on their hands:

MacOS iPhone Project

(Via TidBits.)

Why we do it

A stunning, stunning film by photographer Zack Arias. Ten minutes of why we press on. (And something I really needed to experience just now.)

Transform :: A short film for ScottKelby.com

"I was recently asked to do a guest blog post on Scott Kelby’s site. I had free reign to talk about anything I wanted to talk about. I took it as an opportunity to get off my arse and make something that was new and fresh for me. I decided I would do a video"

(Via DIY Photography.)