25/02/2009

Theo Jansen



Video of Theo Jansen explaining the way his wind powered walking sculptures work.
video
Theo Jansen's website

13/02/2009

Diller Scofidio + Renfro


Liz Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro) talks about the practice's work including the Blur Building.
video
DS+R web site

As Slow as Possible


A piece of music composed by John Cage that will take 639 years to play. ORGAN2/ASLSP As Slow aS Possible.

Clock of the Long Now


"When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 2000, and now no one mentions a future date at all. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of an ever-shortening future. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium." Daniel Hillis - The Long Now Foundation.
More info here.