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beauty

en01_apr_80-small.jpgLyrics from "Beauty" by Einstürzende Neubauten: your arms would not be able to stretch as far as necessary to form an adequate gesture for beauty (you know that, don't you?) so beauty remains in the impossibilities of the body. from "hackers and painters" Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to ...

roboudendijk.com

roboudendijkcom-small.jpgroboudendijk.com was designed for displaying work of rob oudendijk and monique van kerkhof. to supply information about the work they did together or work they did individually. the concept is designed for fast navigation without clicking the mouse button. the side can let the user have about 150 choices before having to make one mouse click. it was designed

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Tie

stopdas-icon.jpg at a meeting of the nccj, Ronald Scherpenhuijsen Rom of ing and me, where the only one without one. the common "no tieers" started a conversation about tie's and orange. which ended in Roland sending me the only tie I own now. it looks like a puzzle of "find wally" . Find wally and

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Calculation
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hagenberg.com

hagenberg-small.jpghomepage of Roland Hagenberg. created with minimal design concept in mind. used for his displaying and selling his work. based on wordpress free ware software with some plug ins and customized template.

passive dynamic biped walking robots

denise.jpgBiped walking robots (TU Delft) or how complex can one make a simple function? Since the start of the Delft Biorobotics Laboratory research has been done on the development of walking bipeds, based on the principle of passive dynamic walking. The backgrounds and history of this research are given in a separate document. All the walking biped prototypes ...

refueling car robot

refueling-robot.jpgCame cross some innovated dutch robots. could not have image Japanese robot makers would done this too. Homepage is here and a Video

Hackers and Painters.

hackers-and-painters.jpgMay 2003 (This essay is derived from a guest lecture at Harvard, which incorporated an earlier talk at Northeastern.) When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in computers would also be interested in painting.

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Koyaanisgatsi

koyaan2.jpgThe film's introduction to human involvement in the environment is subtle: a low aerial shot of choppy water cuts to a similar shot of rows of cultivated flowers. After aerial views of monumental rock formations partly drowned by the backed up waters of Lake Powell, we see a large mining truck causing

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fruit heaven if you can pay for it

fruitshop2.jpgabout a month ago i went to midtown in roppongi and came cross a special shop filled with wonderful delicious fruits. a pity they where out of reach of my budget. I didn't have 21.000 yen for a melon.

367 yen christmas tree

cristmas-tree.jpgStill enjoying a fabulous crismastree i bought just before Christmas. 367 yen made in china. Put some lights in there with adjustable speed, pattern and runs on rechargeable batteries. Christmas could have never been celebrated smaller for me.

homeless man and his ipod

ipod-homeless.jpgin the subway standing in the middle of the pass way suddenly a smelly man, unshaved, looking bewildered and having many bags. Just by himself, bystanders do not seem to see him. They just pass by. But if one looks close a big surprise. He is listing on his Ipod nano light geen maybe one month old. ...