to the best of our knowledge examines typography with tobias frere-jones, jonathan hoefler, and matthew carter.

the wilco documentary by sam jones (in 6 parts on youtube). crafted music.

lucas maassen's brainwave sofa is a representation of a 3 second wave of Alpha brain activity captured with an EEG, modeled, milled in ...

via youtube.com Posted via web from flavourcountry

via youtube.com it's a boat carved of marble! Posted via web from flavourcountry

via youtube.com from experiment 2, an investigation into the effect of iron on sulphur (6:26): "for this experiment, we will be ...

chris jordan photographs the gut contents of albatross chicks on midway island. (its a long way away from anywhere.)

ceramics incorporating bread, by studio formafantasma .

via vimeo.com Woodworms I, by Zimoun Sound installation based on live sounds of woodworms. Woodworms, piece of wood...

by daniel garcia sanchez .

a hamburger today reverse-engineers the shake shack burger .

werner herzog does yet another nutty thing .

a guitar with embedded monome .

this post got neatened up and, through an improbable sequence of events, is now on the atlantic food channel . understanding kaiseki (with...

[also see this article ] so, here is the stake in the ground, the brief explanation of kaiseki that rejects as fundamentally flawed the idea...

a new year begins, and work and research projects begin to coalesce or, in some cases, resurface. here's what's on the plate: a quan...

When we conjure up impressions, ideas, and images of the engineer, we tend to think of an ingenious individual and Promethean spirit who ove...

if you are lucky enough to live in brooklyn, close to di fara , you have the opportunity to eat, daily if you so desire, a pizza that wil...

went to lechmere tonight in search of a tasty beverage and can confirm that 1) it is infested by chain stores, 2) all of which are closed af...

through an improbable sequence of events, i wound up in paris for 10 days a few weeks ago. i spent most of that time underground, reading fo...

on my way home today, inspired by housemate ben's example, i stopped in at the sackler to see the latest rotation of the review exhibiti...

are done with; suddenly, there is a sense of release, and the days are filled with hours to each of which a determinate number of pages to b...

We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally, somebody went out with a retina or a measuring sti...

the height and pitch of the back are perfect. these chairs are literally strewn all over parisian parks and gardens but, despite repeated se...

on a street north of the rue de rivoli, just a few blocks away from le laboratoire .

turns out ike jime (the mystical japanese fish-killing technique) yields better-tasting, better-textured fish by acclamation. the folks at ...

i keep telling people that being a graduate student is, apart from the comparatively lousy pay, the best thing ever: you get to do stuff you...

the final issue of convivium, image from hortus . this is my latest minor fixation: convivium (from the publisher of hortus ). a serial fes...

pachaug pond this weekend. on saturday evening, the sky at dusk was wreathed in pale cirrus clouds that appeared to emanate from the sun, wh...