Neat collection of artwork related to deaths in A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones. If you know how the characters look like in the TV series but haven’t watched all episodes yet, don’t follow the link (spoilers). Beautiful Death → Related:
Unnumbered Sparks
Unnumbered Sparks is a monumental interactive sculpture in the sky. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, at night the sculpture became a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas. Built using Chrome; Powered by Go, WebGL, WebSockets, Web Audio, and Polymer: Truly impressive. Unnumbered Sparks →
The digital unwrapping of the Egyptian priest Neswaiu
Note: There’s a flash video embedded in this post. Your feed reader or iDevice might/will not show it. Stockholm’s Medelhavsmuseet, the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, has been working with the research group Interactive Institute Swedish ICT to digitally scan their eight human mummies as part of preparations for a new permanent exhibition. …
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Monument Valley
AN ILLUSORY ADVENTURE OF IMPOSSIBLE ARCHITECTURE AND FORGIVENESS Having played the first few levels the game indeed is very slick; the MC Escher like puzzles are very cool. The app flow (navigation through menus and the like) is a bit slow paced though – I found myself tapping around (with no response) to get skip …
Night Walk
“Night Walk” takes you on an immersive journey through lively Cours Julien, a neighbourhood of Marseille famous for its unique atmosphere and street art. Listening to your guides Julie and Christophe, you can wander around the vibrant streets as if you were really there, thanks to 360-degree panoramas that we captured at night. Your walk …
Using Office for iPad: getting to work
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WebScaleSQL
WebScaleSQL is a collaboration among engineers from several companies that face similar challenges in running MySQL at scale, and seek greater performance from a database technology tailored for their needs. Those “several companies” are Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And the collaboration mentioned is a true collaboration: For example, to introduce a code change, a …