An interesting article at The Verge about a visit to robotics company Engineered Arts, where they're trying to create androids with a human body's dexterity. (The video shows one of their most advanced machines responding when someone tries to touch its nose.) As you get used
For your weekly soothe, "Joshua Tree, for orchestra," by Georg Friedrich Haas, from its Switzerland premier in 2020. The watcher of the night sky inevitably looks at groups of stars, and these create pictures in the viewer’s imagination. However, when looking at the same area through a
For your weekly soothe, a 24-hour time-lapse video of Arctic summer filmed at a polar station in northern Norway. Via TKSST
Documenting the ecocide occurring at the US-Mexico border from the construction of Trump's wall.
The Memetune Programme is a new, vintage series on vintage synthesizers.
Watch a mini-doc on installation artist Chiharu Shiota, known for her intricate string art. via Colossal
"Chorale," a piece by Raven Chacon for four fog horns, performed in March 2021 by the crews of four ships. Via Alex Ross
From 2017, a tour of a house in North Carolina decorated with thousands of coffee mugs. According to an Atlas Obscura article from 2016, there's no charge to see the collection, "but donations are welcome." The owner does not drink much coffee, though his wife does.
From 2019, Carl Cheng's Tar Pool Project invites the viewer to observe the wonderfully calming phenomenon of dripping tar. See also: A survey covering decades of Cheng's work is now on display at LA's Philip Martin gallery.
From Tim Hunkin, co-creator of the TV series The Secret Life of Machines, a charming series of videos called "The Secret Life of Components." Even if you don't really make things (we don't), the videos are full of interesting information on how simple
