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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Cool tech stockphoto - Test pattern, grid and scale inspired background images © blitzkrieg

Photo: technical backgrounde © blitzkrieg #29185968:
Random grids and patterns that remind me of Cal Schenkel's artwork for Frank Zappa album covers, mixed with those great test patterns that appeared on television as late as the 1970s and 80s when TV stations actually went off the air at night. At about 2 or 3 AM the last B-movie of the night ended and they would play the national anthem to signal the end of the broadcast day. Yes, TV stations actually did not operate for a full 24 hours a day seven days a week (that would be called 24/7 now). Images below © blitzkrieg @ fotolia

RCA America "Indian Head" test pattern

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Abstract grid background | RNicholas @RedGage

Abstract grid background | RedGage:

Hexagonal grids for town planning | Articles - Publishing Titles | GeoPlace

Thinking Outside the Blocks: Hexagonal Planning Ready for a Comeback | Articles - Publishing Titles | GeoPlace:

"When tiled into a honeycomb shape, the natural properties of hexagons provide the greatest area with the smallest perimeter compared to any other pattern. This can be translated into the language of a planner or developer to indicate that the length of road for a given area will be less in a hexagonal network than with any other shape, including the square. And water, sewer and other utility installations closely follow street layout. Roadways provide the most convenient and economical location to place gas mains, water and sewer pipes; so as road length changes, so does the need and costs for corresponding infrastructure."

fishbone patterns Preserve the Amazon with road construction | Discovery News

Road Trip Through the Amazon Forest : Discovery News:

"One of the most concrete examples of how government planning can preserve the Amazon is in organization of road construction. A well-planned grid of roads can preserve the forest much more than haphazard, meandering roads, concluded Walker."

A grid of roads forms a “fishbone” pattern on maps that allow wildlife corridors and reduce forest fragmentation. The meandering or “dendritic” roads can cut the forest into disconnected chunks and isolate wildlife in pockets.

Lunchtime: Cool Animation w/ Moire pattern Videos+grids: (via Queenie's)

Moire pattern | Queenie's: << visit Queenie's for video [excerpt below]

In physics, a moiré pattern (

/m w ɑː ˈ r eɪ /; French: [mwaʁe]) is an interferencepattern created, for example, when two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes.

"This is a new way of creating animation to me, similiar story behind it to what I saw in the toy mesum. Also I think it is related to my idea of secret letter becuase people cannot realize how amazing it is with out looking through the ‘lines’, I definately want to do it myself."

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Color Palette Tools For Designers + Kaleidoscope Wishes By Luna Rosa @COLOURlovers

Pattern / Kaleidoscope Wishes :: COLOURlovers
Color by COLOURlovers

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Nuclear power posters from the 50s + Nitsche Graphic Designer + GIS analysis (via -but does it float) - but does it float

In the early fifties, the spin on nuclear power was that it heralded... - but does it float:

"“Nitsche’s books, annual reports, and other sequential printed material rely on meticulous attention to the details of page composition, the elegance of simple type presentation, and the expressive juxtaposition of historical and contemporary artifacts on a page."

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Brick and stone patterns @ Governors Island + more #NYC and @LMCC events

A recent tour of Governors Island as part of the highly recommended Access Restricted series sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) featured a lecture by Dr. David M. Oestreicher about the first inhabitants of the island -- the Lenape tribe of indigenous Americans.

David's first experience with the indians started when his parents gave him a Lenape dictionary when he was 12 years old. He has been working ever since researching into the remaining Lenape tribe that migrated to the mid-west United and devoting himself to the Lenape language, quoting freely during the lecture and discussing his relationship with the few remaining who were native speakers of this beautiful language.

Lenape translates (roughly) to "common people" or "common man", so the Lenape tribe is really a generic term for a diverse group of people who speak different local dialects of the same language. The Lanape are called the Delaware Indians because one tribe in the Delaware Valley was generalized by some politician to describe all people who spoke the language, but the Lenape once lived in Upstate New York, through all New Jersey to Delaware and beyond.

Images of the buildings at Governors Island:

Books by Dr. Oestreicher:

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Fabric sewing Patterns - search for images on PostImage.com

Colored fabric sewing pattern

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

30,000 Plates cover Giant Porcelain (year of the) Rabbit | Oddity Central

Giant Porcelain Rabbit Made from 30,000 Plates | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities:

"The people of Jingdezhen City, China have found an original way to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rabbit – they’ve built a giant statue of a rabbit from 30,000 porcelain plates.

Ever since the Song dynasty, 1,700 years ago, Jingdezhen has been known as the “porcelain city” because of its porcelain-making history, so it made perfect sense the locals used centuries-old skills for the celebration."

Take a tour of Jingdezhen City, China:

Friday, April 1, 2011

red and pink Geometrical Bed Linen Shapes - design ideas and pictures on Interior Design and Decoration Ideas

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Lighting Design: transforming an everyday space into an attractive environment

Location Lemons - Guy Rhodes – Photography | Videography | Lighting Design

Monday, March 28, 2011

Red and White #Quilts closes Wednesday + Reviews | Park Avenue #ArmoryShow

Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts | American Folk Art Museum:

The American Folk Art Museum has dramatically transformed the Park Avenue Armory’s historic 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall with the installation of 650 red and white American quilts, all of which are on loan from the collection of Joanna S. Rose

Monday, March 21, 2011

200th birthday of Manhattan's Rectangular Street grid | NYT

NYT: Manhattan's Rectangular Street

The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 was the original design plan for the streets of Manhattan, which put in place the grid plan that has defined Manhattan to this day. The commissioners published their plan in March 1811 in the form of an eight-foot map with 12 main north-south avenues and numerous cross streets, with Broadway running at an angle through it. The goal was "a free and abundant circulation of air" to stave off disease. The right angles were also favored because "straight-sided and right-angled houses are the most cheap to build."

Original plan of 1807 without Central Park. See also: Egbert Ludovicus Viele

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Hyperseeing - #Arts, #Mathematics, and #Architecture #magazine

HYPERSEEING (from ISAMA)

The International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture (ISAMA) has published HYPERSEEING regularly since fall 2006. HYPERSEEING offers a lively mix of articles, news, reviews of books and exhibits, announcements, and even cartoons. One issue per year is typically the Proceedings of the ISAMA conference.

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