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I always liked bonsai trees, and I was curious to try the approach I used for "Music from a Tree" on a smaller scale, so I bought a bonsai and recorded this little experimental piece.

To determine the key I used the lowest note I could play and recorded the rest around it.
Besides playing the leaves, I used bows of different sizes, a piano hammer and a paint brush.
As far as microphones I used my Røde NT6, a customized stethoscope and tiny MEAS piezo transducers.

I played all the sounds and rhythms only with the bonsai, I didn't use any synthesizer or samplers to create or modify the sounds. I hope you'll like it.

At this link you can see some pictures with more detailed descriptions: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Music-from-a-Bonsai/453731

Whale depression is a serious issue.

<cite>(via <a href="http://virb.com/bariserkol">Baris Erkol</a>)</cite>

<cite>(via <a href="http://virb.com/bariserkol">Baris Erkol</a>)</cite>

<cite>(via <a href="http://virb.com/pauloctavious">pauloctavious</a>)</cite>

the whole documentary on vimeo

<a href="http://fiveprime.org/blackmagic">better view</a>

<a href="http://fiveprime.org/blackmagic">better view</a>

<a href="http://fiveprime.org/blackmagic">better view</a>

<a href="http://fiveprime.org/blackmagic">better view</a>

phuuuuu / juliasegal / olympiangod

good morning, can’t stop laughing

I can only assume this is a photoshop in terms of the little face looking at us.  But what if it’s not?  Even the little arm sticking out as if it’s waving at us kicks ass.    Either way this picture rules.

If the internet and indeed, the iPhone, wasn't invented for the sole purpose to test whether your two year old looks better with a chevron or a balbo, then I give up. [iTunes via SwissMiss]

Flame is an online painting program, but it’s very different to other online tools available such as Aviary. It’s part of an experimental project called “I am artist” created by Peter Blaškovič of Escape Motions. Below you can see a screengrab of the entire user interface.

The tool lets you pick a black or white background and then change color palettes for your foreground paint brushes. When you use a black background, the palette is additive, when using a white background the palette is subtractive. For web designers, I could see Flame as a really useful for creating unusual backgrounds, headers and footers for websites or to use as a layer in Photoshop (or any other image editor).  Apart from that, it is really good fun to use and the effects are very impressive.

The main tool is the brush with which you paint. You can change the color, saturation and opacity. You can also change the focus of the brush and alter parameters such as chaos and noise. There is a helpful eraser tool, and you can also choose to clear the entire artboard. Working with this tool is a very nice experience.

When you want to save your work of art to your computer, press save. Your picture is not saved onto the Flame website. Your artwork will open in a new window, and then it’s up to you to right click and save the picture to your computer. You can save high resolution pictures of 1680 x 1050 pixels.

Here are a couple of paintings which were saved in the Flame gallery showcasing some work which is far superior to my pathetic effort at the top of this post.

Have you seen Flame before? Did you use the artwork you created with it in a web design or digital artwork?

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[Who needs another BOOOORING photo of penguins? Look over here!]

Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives. That figure equals about 10% of the company's global work force.

Employees at Apple, in contrast, appear to be more devoted to the company's own mobile phone. Several people who work at the company or deal regularly with employees there say they can't recall seeing Apple workers with mobile phones other than the iPhone in recent memory.

IPhone usage at Microsoft is the latest twist in the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft, tech-industry titans that have mixed it up in everything from computer operating systems to digital music players.

For many top Microsoft executives, seeing so many iPhones around the office is a bit like how a Coca-Cola Co. manager might feel seeing underlings drink Pepsi—especially since Microsoft makes its own operating system, Windows Phone, that powers handsets.

Mac OS X bringt seit 10.6 nicht nur lesenden NTFS Support mit, sondern auch die Möglichkeit schreibend auf die NTSF Volumes (in Windows-Deutsch: Laufwerke) zuzugreifen. Ist eine tolle Sache, die aber standardmässig nicht aktiviert ist.

Hier hilft aber ohne große Terminalhackerei ein kleiner Systemeinstellungsdialog: SL-NTFS. Mit diesem Tool schaltet man einfach per Klick ein NTFS Volume auf schreibbar. Einfacher geht es nicht. Dieses Volume wird dann automatisch ab- und wieder eingebunden. SL-NTFS ist Freeware und kann hier kostenlos geladen kann.