Is this the first billboard to produce potable water from air? This really cool billboard (pictured above) is real, it’s located in Lima, Peru, and it produces around 100 liters of water a day (about 26 gallons) from nothing more than humidity, a basic filtration system and a little gravitational ingenuity. read more of Mark Peckhams post ...
This page on the HASTAC Mapping technology forum has a good set of references and links to current efforts to develop new ways of visualizing physical and textual spaces. Tools such as Neatline, The DM Project, Google Earth, and Walking Through Time and Projects like Map of Early Modern London, MappaMundi, and The Pegasus Data Project among others.
Interview between Nayland and Rachel Harrison for Bomb Magazine back in 2008
Article on diffuse and direct light on the Electrical Engineering Portal is a great introduction to display lighting.
School work inversion - students watch Khan Academy videos at home and work on them with the teacher in the class - one of the nice ideas which came to the up in the book Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
I had no idea that the band 'Them' had ever recorded anything like this 9 minute slice of psychedelia .
Creative Australia, the Australian Government’s 2013 national cultural policy, is finally launched and you can download a pdf version from their site.
New South Wales State Government has appointed an industry-led taskforce to drive growth in the creative industries sector and bring together fine arts and music, film, animation, new media and design. A Draft Industry Action Plan [PDF] was released on 11 March 2013.
Film/Doco - The Revolutionary Optimists draws us into the world of two 11 year old's with no access to clean drinking water, a girl forced to labour inside a brick kiln, and a teenage dancer on the precipice of choosing child marriage to escape from her abusive family. From these fragile lives, lawyer turned change-agent Amalan Ganguly mines the strength and vision to build a most unlikely revolution.
Developing a model for Technology-Based Museum School Partnership. In the words of Julie Wilson ... For over a decade the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has used distance learning technology to allow students in grades K-12 to visit the museum without ever leaving their classroom. These sessions allow students to connect live to a museum educator, and experience the museum’s collections and exhibits through photos, videos and audio clips, while learning about topics such as civil rights history, geometry, and economics. Like many museums, the Hall of Fame has used distance learning as a way to reach audiences that were previously beyond our grasp.
PDNB Gallery in Dallas had an exhibition by legendary pin-up photographer, Bunny Yeager, who photographed Betty Page among others. Amazingly this was her first solo show in a major photography gallery in the United States. The image above is from an old mag I picked up in an auction some years ago.
Great British Innovation - this was a really nicely executed project to allow people to vote for Britain's greatest innovations. It is also a great source of info for anyone interested as well.
Graphene and Molybdenite Join Forces for a New Flash Memory see more
Shift Happens Conferences in partnership with Arts Council England since 2008.
- to provide inspiring content that we can share with the whole Arts Sector
- to provoke and examine new thinking
- to generate new ideas for collaboration and connection
Stanford University Libraries is partnering with federal agencies to preserve 15,000 software titles in the Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing held by the Libraries.
Australian Policy online released a report reviewing the pivotal role of assessment in learning and argues for its reconceptualisation by practitioners and policy makers to better support learning. see report
DODGE & BURN the official Tumblr blog curated by the Department of Photographs at George Eastman House
Superb news - search across 80,000 digitised British newsreel documents at News on Screen
Spectacular Images from the OMG Microscope that uses a combination of objects and 3D structured illumination microscopy to see object as small as 100 nanometres across - all in 3D.
Detroit Leaders Launch Opportunity Detroit's Placemaking and Retail Vision for City's Urban Core.
Top ten hacking failures in the movies reveal how little they actually know about the field.
Just finished the first week in my new job at Parramatta City Council's Heritage Centre (this is the view from the bridge outside) & this has been my first chance to post links of stuff from my Twitter feed, but so much good stuff this has only taken me to the end of March so I'll try and get another done next week.
