The Friday Links

Oh hey Hiiiii Friday!

Good to see you. Let’s go!

Touch This Art: The Nautilus

“The Nautilus is a constellation of 95 interactive poles that are activated by touch. Passersby are invited to engage with the immersive space or observe others’ interactions from its central enclosure.”

Located in NYC’s Seaport District

MORPH: Robotic Sculpture

“MORPH is a modular and kinetic interactive installation that reaches beyond two-dimensional pixels and embodies three-dimensional information.”

An intereting little piece of interactive art. A ton of tech went into this. Really impressive.

One of many such interesting creations from Mindbuffer.

Yael Kirav: Conductive Origami

“A series of lighting fixtures that are produced using 3D printing directly onto textiles. Stiff printing on canvas allows creating complex fixtures. When the printed material conducts electricity, the tangent points created by the wisdom of origami folding, produce a new opportunity – lighting the fixture by shrinking and stretching the structure.”

Yael Akirav is an Industrial Designer based in Jerusalem.

Hex Blaster

It’s breakout, but with bouncing and sequences and points and… I really find it addictive.

Not a mobile game, but probably should be. Super fun!

Therrrrre we go. Links. Friday. Friday links!

See you next week everybody!

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Hooray for Friday!

It’s here again! yay.

And now some linkages… es.

Snack Packaging Turned Into Amazing Art

This is the work of a Kobe-based art student named “Harukiru“.

It’s really quite something. He completely transforms these packages into intricate, beautiful, often whimsical sculptures.

Somewhat making the rounds. Excellent work.

Dog Photographer Of The Year Winners (UK) 2019

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See also (unrelated / but similar): Ravi Zupa: Dog Posters and Matchboxes

So good!

Poolside.fm

An odd little retro-90s experience in your browser.

It presents a mid-90s computer desktop interface and streams audio and videos from that era with a tv scan-line filter on it.

Sent along by Kate S. I like it!

Cub ‘n Pup

“Drag cub to the star”

Starts off simple, then clever, then… uh… challenging.

Sent along by James F.

Have a great (long?) weekend everybody.

See you in a week.

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Happy Friday!

And where I live: it’s hot!

Let’s get started…

Diary Wheel

A somewhat odd little… thing that creates a tiny diary based on a series of randomized interactions.

Suggested by Tara P.

Trennd.co

“Trennd surfaces rapidly growing google search topics – so you can find the next big thing!”

As of this writing, Stranger Things, the Women’s World Cup and the 2019 Cricket World Cup were all top trending (3 month.)

Dazzling Color Photos of the Legendary Romanov Costume Ball of 1903

Some pretty excellent portrait photography from the era, colourized by Olga Shirnina, who has colourized several other things as well.

I love that the quality of this work keeps improving. It’s mind-blowing.

Boink!

This is a two-player game.

Left side player uses wasd, right player uses keyboard arrows. You want to knock your opponent out of the ring.

It’s fun and funny.

Soooooo there you go! Links! For your Friday.

Stay cool out there everybody. See you in a week.

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It is finally Friday and you guys we made it!

Fantastic. Good job everybody.

Let’s go!

AI Portraits ARS

“AI Portraits Ars is able to paint portraits in real time at 4k resolution. You will find yourself in front of a mirror and feel thousands Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Titian portraying you moment after moment.”

Never mind this whole Faceapp thing (especially with its glaring privacy concerns,) this app takes your photo and renders it in the style of a legendary art master.

It definitely takes some time, but the results are pretty startling. It’s also becoming “a thing” and its servers are frequently overwhelmed.

upcomingbinge

“Your Reference For Upcoming Movies, TV Series And Games. Release Dates, Trailers, IMDb, Platforms, Genres, Description, etc.”

As of this writing the TV show “For All Mankind” is the highest rated upcoming TV show. I’m in!

Cleverly designed. I like it.

Lost New York

A gallery of artworks depicting New York restaurants, diners, etc. which have closed.

Created by NYC artist Yen Ha. Some strikingly beautiful work here.

Hexel

This is an odd little “1024”-like game. You move dots within a hexagon until they join together. It’s not immediately obvious how to do this, but it kind of feels natural, and somewhat meditative to play.

Sent in by Karen F.

And that’s that. Friday! Linked!

See you next week everyone.

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Well howdy Friday folks!

It’s link time!

doodle.place

Create a new doodle, draw it, submit it, name it, and it gets animated in a weird vector-graphics 3d landscape.

A weird, joyful little time waster.

Mandelbrot Set Explorer

An in-browser Mandelbrot fractal geometry explorer.

Each time you zoom in, your CPU is performing some pretty excellent mathematics.

50 Facts About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing for Its 50th Anniversary

My favourite: Michael Collins designed the Apollo 11 insignia. I had no idea. Collins remains my favourite unsung astronaut.

Mutilate-A-Doll 2

“Welcome to MAD2, a physics sandbox with over 1500 items for building, destroying, or of course mutilating ragdolls.”

Cathartic. Watch out because it will eat up your computer’s CPU. (Lots of calculations to imitate the physics.)

That, sadly, is that.

Have a fantastic Friday everybody! Whuhoo!

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Hey it’s Friday!

Short week = fast week. Yay!

And now, to the links!

Delicate, Miniature Sculptures Made From Dandelion Seeds by (euglena)

For real. Dandelion seeds. Crazy!

More of euglena’s works here.

Ableton: Learning Synths

“On this website, you’ll learn the basics of using synthesizers (or synths). No prior experience or equipment is required; you’ll do everything right here in your browser.”

I find this extremely cool.

Costello’s 500

“From Abba to Zamballarana, and from Mozart to Eminem, one of rock’s finest talents has identified 500 albums essential to a happy life. It was a long, tortuous undertaking, but the man knows music—and his aim is true”

From 2013, but still relevant.

See also: Christopher Nolan’s favourite movies.

Mix Shapes

“Fit as many shapes as you can”

Sounds easy!

Similar shapes, if they touch, will be removed.

It’s definitely challenging!

And finally there’s this investigative report on the accuracy of the Domino’s Pizza Tracker. It’s funny, but also pretty rigorous.

Have a lovely Friday!

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Welcome to Friday!

And where I live, it’s a long weekend!

And look! I found some Friday Links!!

Nvidia AI Playground

Specifically the “Gaugan” tool.

You draw a basic form of material and this tool creates breathtaking, fairly realistic looking landscapes. Really impressive.

2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest

Until I found this I wasn’t even aware this was a category in National Geographic.

Some absolutely stunning work here.

MyNoise

“The idea behind myNoise is to use the noises you most enjoy to mask the noises you don’t want to hear: chatty colleagues, your tinnitus, or even your inner voice when you can’t shut it down!”

Kind of cool. A wide variety of choices too.

I Just Wanna Land

Left and Right arrows = direction

Highly addictive!

Suggested by Laura E.

Good luck!

And since it’s finally warming up, here’s a quick little History of the Air Conditioner which I found interesting.

That’s what I’ve got!

Have a great (long?) weekend and see you next Friday.

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I can’t believe Friday is already here!

So good.

And it’s the solstice! So good!!

Okay let’s go…

Why Time Flies

“Scroll down to see how time flies”

Expertly designed. Nicely done.

An Orbit Map of the Solar System

“This week’s map shows the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the solar system. This includes everything we know of that’s over 10km in diameter – about 10000 asteroids – as well as 8000 randomized objects of unknown size. This map shows each asteroid at its exact position on New Years’ Eve 1999.”

Created by Eleanor Lutz.

Includes a link to the code that generated these views.

h/t: kottke.

The Best Road Trips in North America

“From the Canadian Kootenay Rockies to Southwest hot springs, we found the most scenic stretches of road for epic summer adventures”

This is sort of making the rounds. Well researched and beautifully presented, this was suggested by many subscribers. It almost makes me want to get my drivers’ license again. 🙂

Mario Royale

A massively multiplayer Mario Brothers game.

It is crazy. You see the “ghost” image of your fellow players. All done in the browser.

Created by InfernoPlus.

This is actually a pretty impressive achievement.

And there we are. We have become… Friday Linked…

See you next week everybody. Enjoy your solstice weekend.

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Fridayyyyyy!

It’s finally here again!

Awesome. And now: your Friday Links!

Mayank Thammalla: Echoes Of Venice

“I have visited Venice multiple times of the last few years and each time the reflections in the canals have inexplicably enticed me.

“Time became a fragment of the imagination and reality began to question itself.

I found a sense of calmness as the reflections assured me that my reality can be what ever I can imagine, that is not consumed by societies conceptions on the world.”

Some really beautiful work here.

Of course he has an instagram account.

Bea Haines Artworks

Ms. Haines is making news recently because her medium is human ashes.

A very odd choice but her work is spectacular.

City Extremes

“Use CityExtremes to discover the closest and farthest cities to any city.”

Some sites listing this have said it’s like “drilling through the earth” to see where you come out on the other side.

Several North American cities all end up in the ocean. Oh well.

In theory the farthest city from Toronto is Perth, Australia. I should go!

Extra Defense

A 2d / top-down arcade shooter with pretty great graphics and “Asteroids”-like controls.

I like it! (I suck at it, but I like it!)

There we go! We did it! See? Easy!!

See you next Friday everybody.

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Happy Friday everybody!

Ahhh June. I like it! (Finally.)

SatMap.space

View the current position and name of thousands of currently orbiting satellites.

It doesn’t deep link into their function, but it’s pretty cool

ReMake My Day

“In recent years, as many as one in 20 of Hollywood’s highest-grossing movies have been revamped versions of an original. While some remakes go on to be critically acclaimed Academy Award winners, others should have probably been left alone. We analysed the ratings and profitability of remade movies vs their originals to find out which versions are more successful.”

I’ll be honest I am definitely not a fan of the interface for this. You hover over a small dot to see the original film and it’s remake’s data, rankings, favorites, etc. But if you move too fast: where was that film?

Still: interesting. Also: could someone please write more original non-remake films? Thanks.

Rock Stars Eating Breakfast

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On an entire website devoted to breakfast!

Sent in by Alli M.

Handulum

Suuuuper addictive game.

Click to span a ball and then click again to put it at the end of a pendulum. Let it swing and release. Repeat until you reach the exit.

Challenging and very zen.

Not available on mobile yet but it sure should be.

Sent along by Traci T..

That, as they say, is that.

Enjoy your Friday! See you next week.

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