visualize a city of cell phone usage

http://senseable.mit.edu/projects/graz/graz.htm#rtgraz

Beautiful.

monstercrochet.com

try this url for the crochet vegtables: monstercrochet.com

crocheted vegtables

check out this site: http://www.monstercrochet.com/VLA.html

she's crocheting vegtables!

A self sustaining city!

http://www.inhabitat.com/entry_487.php#body

rubber band art

These are so lovely. The costumes though, are strange.

from popgadget

definitely buying it

http://www.colorcalm.com/

It's a dvd of relaxing videos. A little new age-y. But after the week I've had I could use some ohm time. I did the preview in green. Aparently there is a lot more to it. For more go to mocoloco

a film that feels scultptural

http://www.anthonymccall.com/pg2.html

so totally and completely true

Via DailyKos

SUBTLE SAFETY RING

It's brass knuckles for women. Cooool.

http://www.redstartdesign.com/SubtleSafety.html

making slick looking books for cheap

Nice paper, nice binding and a clean layout design. All for cheap:

http://www.qoop.com/

If you create a free flicker account and upload your photos you can have books or posters made very cheaply through qoop.

Flickr:

http://flickr.com

Flickr is very handy for putting images online. It's easy to use. And free.

having ideas

http://www.ideagenerationmethods.com/

A catalog of ways of generating ideas. Nice.

mia friedrich

http://www.miafriedrich.info/index.html

very photoshop. nice though. moody.

how long will you live?

Ok. This is another one that isn't for the eyes. But it is interesting.

http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/~foster/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html

Answer the questions and learn how long you will live. After you get your score you can analyze your problem areas to know exactly how much life you are loosing to them. Interesting.

recycled materials as art (for sale)

http://www.elsewares.com/commerce/index.php?cPath=4_163

collective nouns

This isn't imagery but it strikes me as being visual.

Posted by Pete Cleppe on the CSUSB bulletin board:

You know about a covey of quail & a herd of buffalo otherwise known as collective nouns. But what collective nouns do we use for a group of taxi cabs, computer mice, lawyers, etc. Here are some suggestions:

a whatever of teenagers
a spider of webmasters
an objection of lawyers
a brief of lawyers.
a circle of geometricians
a wildcard of hackers
a monica of sins
a clutch of mechanics
a stoppit of parents
a drove of taxi cabs
a wad of gum-chewers
a clique of computer mice
an imelda of shoes
a grab-bag of purse-snatchers
a ______ of nihilists
a giggle of girls
a somephony of music critics
an ear of colonels
a duke of URLs

stereo speakers like sculptures

http://mocoloco.com/archives/001380.php

A zoomed-in view of words related to flowers

http://loop.aiga.org/resources/loop/loop9/colorproject/index.html

Someone scripted a code to collect what color each word was given on the internet and averaged the results to give 33,000 words their own color.

It took a really long time to run, even with a broadband connection, a fast processor and lots of ram. But there is a image gallery of some results.

an alphabet of logic

A very interesting article. Of course anything that starts, "...a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic," has got to be good.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/crystal.php

airport carpet like from above

http://www.gizmag.com/linktous/4219/

The carpet design comes from aerial photos of the area. So perfect for an airport.

friction and gravity

Tara Donovan
Untitled (styrofoam cups)
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/001293.php

I really like the styrofoam cups, so light and voluptous. But I found a nice discussion of her work. See quote from Art Moco:

"Donovan has used materials as banal as plastic drinking straws, fishing wire, paper plates, tar paper, Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, tempered glass and steel pins in her fascinating installations, quite often relying on friction and gravity to keep the piece together."

Linda, she has a light effervescent touch like you.