- David Bowie’s Space Oddity has been made into a nicely illustrated but bleak children’s picture book.
- Julian Burnside: Remember our responsibility to protect refugees. Meanwhile David Pope’s cartoon on the topic is going straight to the pool room!
- The Wacom Inkling looks amazing! It allows a transfer of sketches made on paper to layered raster or vector files on your PC or Mac.
- Circling Around Your Wallet: Doc Searls’ take on Goodle+ as “indentity service”.
- God’s Own Party looks at Dominionism in the US, and promotes the author Leah Burton’s soon to be released book about it, Gods, Guns and Greed. (via @cheerfulsneerin)
- Kittywood Studios
- Mark Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World
- Shadoe Delgado makes cool ceramic marionette sculptures. Check out his new SuperHero and these older ones which I love.
- Investigations into News Corp in America: A life unravelled… whistleblower who incurred the wrath of the Murdoch empire
- Yiying Lu’s latest creation uses augmented reality (AR) to uncover an underworld of interactivity on walls all around you.
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Selected links this week
- The mystery of the body on Somerton Beach, Adelaide, circa 1948. I never heard of this when I was growing up there. What is it with Adelaide??
- An interactive robotic painting machine by Benjamin Grosser
- Stephanie Posavec’s On the Map – patterns within literary space
- This is fascinating: Visual complexity – Mapping patterns of information
- The Great Big Crazy Carbon Tax Conspiracy : “the ultimate political and intellectual cul-de-sac”
- The Obvious Solution: cartoon by Fiona Katauskas
- On the UK riots: Riots & Poverty Put on a Google Map; Naomi Klein: Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery; and who to blame for everything.
- Famine and Profits: “The increasing financialisation of the food system could make famines more regular”, by David Nally
- Waltzing Matilda by Mongolian throat singer & horse hair fiddle player Bukhchuluun Ganburged
Twitter digest 2011-08-08
- Love this – Planet of the iPad : Steve Gillmor http://t.co/IrOwkjF #
Twitter digest 2011-08-07
- A long & very interesting article by Phillip Torrone on what the Autodesk acquisition of Instructables means for makers http://t.co/gL5jIwf #
Twitter digest 2011-08-06
- Great video of Snuff Puppets new Human Body Parts puppets in action http://t.co/NEDur3u #
- .@i_am_anna you could code it too, eg have all the old British empire countries pink like they used to be in old atlases in reply to i_am_anna #
- It could – would be fabulous! “@i_am_anna: @Hil121 probably wouldn't work, but the idea of this in colour is nice! http://t.co/A7msTkR” #
- This is wild: Ant's abdomens colour matched with their food http://t.co/RPDre3Z #
Twitter digest 2011-08-05
- Lovely images from the Natural History Museum http://t.co/ytet5aW #
- Looks like the financial market has crashed while I was busy… #
- Entered 2 sculptures in the @WoollahraSSP small sculpture prize today. Have no idea where that will go, but I'm pleased to have done it. #
- Yes: "Real names" policies are an abuse of power http://t.co/M8cZYYD #
- Cool sculptures made with haptic (touch) technology & 3D printing http://t.co/yxGwMRd (via @ponoko) #
Twitter digest 2011-08-04
- Cool ceramic Mask and Marionette by @ShadowDelgado http://t.co/CjXFTZM #
Twitter digest 2011-08-03
- Re last tweet, pretty close to the live cattle trade really. Tasers, stun guns… #
- Ashamed by Australian govt's despicable policy on asylum seekers. Human trafficking no less. http://t.co/qZ16yYS #
- An animated GIF story… http://t.co/bgfmFlx (via @katepotter) #
- Finishing up the snail today, coming up with some nice surprising patina effects on the shell http://t.co/jEaS0GZ #
- Friendship & Support, A Tribute To George Harrison by Shepard Faire http://t.co/zm1RrrB Still have my boxed set of Concert for Bangladesh #
Twitter digest 2011-07-31
- The invasive species war http://t.co/GtOw7ps (via @michaelpollan) #
- Looking back at the 1993 Camillagate scoop in relation to NoTW issues now http://t.co/65DEG9S #
- Seems to me that Rushkoff's advice re ideas that IT is biased towards could be used much more widely, ie politics? http://t.co/QmTgAt3 #
- “@ShadoeDelgado: Creepy cool Marionettes http://t.co/DiSaAuC” // I particularly like the earlier big ceramic marionettes – so cool! #
