//subdivision

Dr. James Levine has 'invented' a treadmill computer desk. My first thought upon seeing this was how dumb and unusable it looks, but my opinion very quickly reversed.
How much computer activity actually really requires me to be sitting? Who hasn't found that they pace up and down when in a really good phone conversation, helping [...]

I was digging around on the Wayback Machine today, and got all nostalgic looking at old versions of Subdivision, from back when I was a student from 1999-2001, producing similar feelings to poking around in those old boxes of photos under the stairs
2/2/2001: "subdivision was officially launched today, much to the rapture of... well, just [...]

This is so cool it made me smile at the future possibilities of distributed computing, ubiquity and convergence...

Here: http://www.animex.net
2D, 3D, Stop frame, motion graphics, Visual effects...
Aim to submit your finals for the 2008 awards and note how simple yet innovative and polished some of the animations are, and also how they use audio.

OK, my point here was...
I saw the Mario video on music TV a couple of times, and was really amazed at the artwork in the background. After quite a bit of mucking about in Google (OK, OK almost an entire Sunday) I found a few interesting things out. (probably half of it wrong, but hey..)
The [...]

Apologies to anyone withAmaxophobia but I was amazed at the level of real-time complexity here.
Burnout 5 is being showcased as a PS3 (and XBOX 360) title on the web and seems to be utilising that power in polygon mashups reminiscent of what a model usually looks like when you do something wrong in a 3D [...]

I've had a love affair with the work of John Maeda for around 7 years. He's a graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory. His books are also inspirational and fascinating. Take a look.

MIT Media Laboratory
Maeda Studio
Maeda on Flickr
Wikipedia entry

Tim Cameron's found an interesting niche by combining work and pleasure. He designs beautiful conceptual motorcycles. I would not be surprised if one of his designs is picked up on / inspires a real world design soon.
V-REX - Tim Cameron's next big design
Tim's personal Site

Bakedbeats#2 - 24th June

http://www.bakedbeats.com
Saturday 24th June, 2.00pm - 11.00pm
Shillibeers, Carpenters Mews, North Road, London N1 8PL
Tickets
Bakedbeats is a live multi-performance music event in Shillibeers (next-door to SAE). Your work is wanted to display alongside the performances...
The last all-dayer May 1st event was a real success, with a chilled family atmosphere in the day following through [...]

These drawings are beautiful.. Michael Paulus has taken famous cartoon characters and theorised how their skeletons might be formed. There's a slight Da-Vinci feel to the style, partly from the writing and paper I think.