You Tube Put To Good Use
I’ll be honest. I have a little time on my hands these days. But so does this guy. And apparently you can do a lot of cool stuff with time and hands. Click above.
Folded Paper
I put this to you fine folks, whoever you and however many of you there are, to go and google Simon Schubert and try and find more stuff then I did. He lives in Cologne, Germany and he makes his work entirely by folding paper. Its one of those things that I find and it makes me think “If I’m not folding paper and making art out of it then I am totally irrelevant and lazy and uninspired”. Come to think of it this may be the only one of those things that makes me think that specifically but you get the general idea. Inspiration comes from all places. And in our recessionary world I find a lot more peace and joy and reflection in a folded piece of paper then I do in a crystal, diamond encrusted Damien Hearst skull . . .
. . . because there is just a breaking point where money and art can spin only so fast together until their molecules collide and the benefits of both are crushed into dust and lost into the ether.
and the result of this mismanaged alchemy usually involves crystal skulls . . . im looking at you indiana jones.
Wolfram Alpha
Meet Stephen Wolfram. His name has been flying around the interweb this week faster and more violently then those particles they are spinning around that Hadron Collider they built underneath Switzerland. He is the creator of wolframalpha.com, the newest search engine that everyone is hailing as the best thing since google. Immediately upon announcing its launch it has been flooded with criticism that its database is painfully empty and that there is not much there beyond the examples provided by Wolfram himself in his screencast which you can find on the homepage. I can’t afford to be so jaded in the face of what appears to be the beginnings of a whole new way of finding, comparing, correlating, and salivating over raw empirical data. While it may not have all of the worlds knowledge in there yet it is a compelling place to surf around a bit. I suggest watching the video to get a sense of what it is capable of now and what it’s going to be capable of in the near future. We’ve all wondered what the diameter of the earth is in comparison to the height of the Chrysler building at one point or another. Thank Stephen Wolfram for finally giving us the chance to find out.
Thanks to my dad for clueing me into it.