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Amazing Tone Matrix synthesiser music visualisation tool

Published on 05/03/2010 by in found

Abso­lutely love this amaz­ing vir­tual syn­thes­iser (or “ToneMat­rix” as the developer, Andre Michelle describes it), found thanks to my Face­book brother Dave. It’s essen­tially a web-based ver­sion of Yamaha’s Tenori-on; a rel­at­ively new musical instru­ment made fam­ous by Björk which com­bines a “per­form­ance input con­trol­ler” with an anim­ated LED dis­play. The real instru­ment has far more fea­tures

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Top 10 reasons you know you’re working at an aid organization headquarters

Published on 04/03/2010 by in found

I just had to copy+paste this price­less gem in its entirety here from the ori­ginal post by Brooks Keene because it is so so true: You just had a pre-meeting to dis­cuss your strategy plan­ning ses­sion for the new ini­ti­at­ive to reduce poverty by increas­ing access to safe water/credit/food/health care through fair and equit­able dis­tri­bu­tion to those

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Bewildering animated infographic displays the virus-like movement of just one day’s plane flights

Published on 22/02/2010 by in found

I found this aston­ish­ing yet ter­ri­fy­ing You­tube anim­ated infographic that shows just one day’s plane flights around the globe. I think it’s a very power­ful piece of work. As well as being a fas­cin­at­ing dis­play of all the flights around the world on an aver­age day, the over­all effect is some­thing akin to watch­ing vir­uses move around a micro­scope slide.

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Lab Rat: What Happens When You Unplug from Your Internet Addiction? :: Articles :: The 99 Percent

Published on 03/02/2010 by in comment

Oh my word, I really need to go through the same inter­net cold tur­key as Brit­tany Ancell puts her­self through in this pos­it­ive Lab Rat art­icle for the99percent.com: Lab Rat: What Hap­pens When You Unplug from Your Inter­net Addic­tion? :: Art­icles :: The 99 Per­cent. Tech­nor­ati: inter­net, modern-life

 
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