“Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.” says Kacie Kinzer, author of the project.

So the object on its own is just a tool, a moving object that only becomes a robot by acessing the spectators inteligence to get directed towards its goal – nice merge and involvement of the spectators!

Greg La Vardera uses Google sketchup as a base to these New England illustrations. I always find it amazing how the free acess to google sketchup opens the world of 3D modeling to all disciplens…

Oliver Bishop-Young has created a series of ‘guerilla’-dumpster use such as a pool, a ping-pong table and many more to see on his homepage. enjoy!

While I was still comparing Zara Hadids latest competition-winning project in Antwerpen to the look of a ski jump (she did one, too), the below project by Julian de Smetd has been released on dezeen.com

hm…?

this wonderful and minimal mixtape site is as clear as it is simple to use. i recommend passing by, also because of the feeling that the beauty won’t last too long. it would not surprise me if the copyrighters will be chasing these ny hipsters very soon.

in the meantime, enjoy!

i know this is not converting into a computer-blog but i hope to save some others some research time by posting this.

tried to connect my (old) canonscan lide 30 to a friend’s new mac powerbook today. – it took some time. the installer downloaded from the official canon site does not even ‘know’ where to install the necessary plug-in so i had to figure out it goes into the /’plug-ins’/'import/export’ folder just to then get a warning message that photoshop will not recognize the file format.

the solution has the debatable name ‘rosetta‘, an apple mode that allows to run non-intel (or non-universal) files on an intel-mac, you find as a tiny check-mark it in the ‘properties’ window if you ctrl-click the photoshop icon. once you are done with scanning you can re-run photoshop without ‘rosetta’ if you feel that ‘rosetta’ influences your work performance…

shame on you canon, because in other words that means canon did not even program an intel-based driver.

This entire ‘waterproofed’ house serves as a favorite example for the ‘playground brooklyn’ where DIY architecture leaves nothing impossible.