by atmara | May 10, 2018 | Art, Creativity, Music, TED, TED Talks
According to TED.com: “Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark — and how audio can clue us in to developing creativity.”
“In his day job, Jared Ficklin makes user interfaces at frog design. As a hobby, he explores what music looks like … in light, in shapes, in fire.”
“Jared Ficklin is a Senior Principal Design Technologist at frog, where he builds user experiences for clients, playing with interactions including touch and multi-touch, and applying physics to enhance the user experience. A passion for music and making things introduced him to the hobby of sound visualization, which has led him on occasion to play with fire. (As Flash on the Beach puts it, ‘Jared Ficklin’s sonic experiments stood out for their individuality, drama and casual disregard for health and safety.’) Every March in Austin, Texas, Ficklin organizes the frog party, a collective social experiment for a few thousand people attending SXSW Interactive. It’s a form of playful R&D for social technology. And he has spent 10 years helping fund, design and build quality free public skateparks for Austin as part of the Austin Public Skatepark Action Committee. “
New ways to see music (with color! and fire!) by Jared Ficklin
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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by atmara | May 7, 2018 | Art, Coloring Mandalas, Mandala Coloring, Mandala Monday, Mandalas, Zentangle
Free Mandalas Coloring Pages from Just Color has quite a collection of images to color including:
Here are just a few examples of the mandalas they have on their site.
Really stunning mandalas, don’t you think?
They also have a selection of tutorials on coloring techniques, Adult coloring techniques and tutorials. This is what they have to say about these tutorials:
“Do you want to master new adult coloring techniques, discover expert tips to improve your skills in this art ?
Here are several technical tutorials, as well as “step by step” courses prepared by some of the most assiduous users of our website.
Thanks to these secrets revealed, you will have the opportunity to get more satisfaction from the practice of this leisure.
Felt, colored pencil, watercolor … Whatever your technique, here you will find the right information to optimize your technique.”
They also have tutorials on Zentangles and Anime. There is a huge world of coloring to explore. I hope you will use this resource often. Enjoy!
For those of you who like to color online I refer you to several blog posts I have done on this topic including:
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by atmara | May 3, 2018 | Algorithms, Architecture, Art, TED, TED Talks
According to TED.com:”Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture — and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium tea set) illustrate his theory.”
“Greg Lynn is the head of Greg Lynn FORM, an architecture firm known for its boundary-breaking, biomorphic shapes and its embrace of digital tools for design and fabrication.”
“Who says great architecture must be proportional and symmetrical? Not Greg Lynn. He and his firm, Greg Lynn FORM, have been pushing the edges of building design, by stripping away the traditional dictates of line and proportion and looking into the heart of what a building needs to be.”
“A series of revelations about building practice — “Vertical structure is overrated“; “Symmetry is bankrupt” — helped Lynn and his studio conceptualize a new approach, which uses calculus, sophisticated modeling tools, and an embrace of new manufacturing techniques to make buildings that, at their core, enclose space in the best possible way. The New York Presbyterian church that Lynn designed with Douglas Garofalo and Michael McInturf, collaborating remotely, is a glorious example of this — as a quiet industrial building is transformed into a space for worship and contemplation with soaring, uniquely shaped and tuned elements.”
“In a sort of midcareer retrospective, the book Greg Lynn Form (watch the video) was released in October 2008; recently, Lynn has collaborated with the video team Imaginary Forces on the New City installation as part of the MOMA exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind.” In November 2008, FORM won a Golden Lion at the Venice Bienniale for its exhibition Recycled Toy Furniture.”
Organic Algorithms in Architecture by Greg Lynn
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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