This was a pretty cool project where a guy decided to draw his self portrait using a briefcase outfitted with a GPS tracking device that he had DHL ship all over the world. The end result being that he drew a picture of himself across our planet.
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Biggest Drawing in the World
Bookmarked via Diigo on Sunday, May 25, 2008 @ 05:25 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
First Espresso Book Machine Installed at New York Public Library’s Science, Industry and Business Library
Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 15:28 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is simply a brilliant idea. Library visitors can use this machine to print, on demand and for free, any of 200,000 books that are currently within the public domain. The physical book is available within minutes.
Print on demand technology has been around for a while, but I’m excited to see it getting used in way that is so beneficial to the public good.
A List Apart: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 @ 11:26 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a fantastic article, that along with its companion piece, it covers how the influence of business on the web has been reduced from writing to “zombified copywriting.” The author indicates that this is because so many people writing for the web are not writers, but rather engineers, secretaries and designers. I’d argue that this has as much or more to do with the influence of business on the web. The so-called “rules” for writing on the web resemble the soul-crushing tactics traditionally associated with business writing and marketing copy. Obviously, this style of writing has its place, but I agree wholeheartedly with the author that writers and artists have a responsibility to construct the art of this new digital medium “with the same care, deliberateness, and gusto as our traditional media.”
Definately worth a look.
