Larrie Thompson is a photographer who takes photographs at night with colored light added to the scene, creating some interesting effects to the time-exposures.
Month: August 2002
Recent photolog from the Demster Highway to Inuvik and back
Cool set of photos taken last month by a traveller driving up the Demster Highway, past the Arctic Circle, to Inuvik and back.
Eugene Jarvis, video game Jedi
Cool interview with Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender, Robotron, and Smash TV.
“Some of the most interesting and deadly aspects of the enemies were bugs caused by improperly terminated boundary conditions in the algorithms. Often these bugs produced behavior far more interesting and psychotic then anything I conceived of.”
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Royksopp’s “Remind Me”
The song is sort of an early 80s new wave pastiche, but the video for it is a mind-blowing hypnotic mix-up of morphing infographics.
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Random word generator
By analyising the frequency of pairs of letters in 45,402 different words it is possible to generate new words which, although, don’t have any meaning are reasonably syntatically correct.
Instant Star Trek gadget names if you ask me. (“But captain, the Omnizer has only been used in simulations!”). I quite like the results from running “crypto-” through it.
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And another ‘way cool’ headline: “Giant squid are taking over the world!”
Will Mr. Lovecraft please pick up the white courtesy phone…
Giant squid are taking over the world, well at least the oceans, and they are getting bigger. According to scientists, squid have overtaken humans in terms of total bio-mass.
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