So our good friends at five and a half are doing this sweet project, called The Postcard Says. You all should participate because it’s nice and simple and human and will make you feel good. Here’s how: E-mail us@fiveandahalf.net with “postcard please” in the subject header and your mailing address in the message. In a [...]

Troika was asked to create a piece to mark the entrance to British Airway’s new luxury lounges at Heathrow. Beautiful. In response, we created ‘Cloud’, a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture. Flip-dots [...]

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You’ve probably heard of wingsuit base jumping before. But this, this made me feel all kinds of funny.

From the Daily Mail article: “…the ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock. The first time the police came it was over alleged tax evasion and [...]

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking to the MFA Writing students at California College of the Arts. I’d been asked there to talk about how they could use their newly-honed writing skills to make a living in the world. I’d done a similar talk for the entire undergraduate classes a few [...]

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Our homeboy Shawn Feeney pointed us to an Interesting project. But while I appreciate the desire to give the experience of viewing graffiti to blind people, I’m having a hard time understanding how blind people will know it’s there. The website says that the sticker reading “Braille graffiti” is “an attempt to draw attention to [...]

Check out this minimalist cabin built from off-the-shelf parts. It’s 140 square feet, and features a cleverly re-purposed garage door.Link. Found on notcot.org