Halfshag is a tool for creating isometric pixel graphics reminiscent of old tile based 8-bit or 16-bit games. It’s basically the fun of Lego and QBert combined!
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via Future Feeder [edit: and apparently via pixelsumo also :)],
Alison Mealey creates artwork by tracking the movement and death of two dozen AI bots in custom created maps for the game Unreal Tournament. Each image represents about 30 minutes of gameplay in which the computer’s AI plays against itself.
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Via We-make-money-not-art and resetdesign, Hilde De Decker creates vegetable jewelry by placing young fruit onto the ring and monitoring and influencing the progress of the plants’ growth.
The Belgian artist’s site consists entirely of photos. It will take a bit of clicking before you reach the plant-jewelry part.

The Khronos Projector is one of those ideas that are at the same time explainable within a single sentence and brilliant and beautiful.
By touching parts of a screen that displays an image out of a video sequence, the user can locally and gradually manipulate and change the time index of the image. The implications of […]

I’ve been meaning to put this online for a while.
I spent a few days in Rome this spring, where each evening just after five o’clock, tens of thousands of birds assembled massive swarms over the train station Roma Termini. The first time I saw them, I stood there for almost an hour. The constant collective […]

Someone copied a Copyshop in Vienna’s 7th district (Kirchengasse 10).
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link to vienna.metblogs.com

It may not be the first time, we see ragdoll physics implemented in a browser compatible format, but the bubbles give this piece a mesmerizing quality.
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UPDATE: the site has been taken down for the moment. here’s a mirror.

“Assuming that we dodged the 1984, Brave New World bullet, our future was supposed to be a sort of technocratic, atomic-powered, computer-controlled, antiseptic, space-travelling Jerusalem that would at last free us from the curse of Eden and original sin. We expected some how, some way that we would be on the road to […]

Free as in free software, not free as in free beer, Vores Øl (”Our Beer”) is the world’s first beer under a Creative Commons license. You can brew your own or change the recipe, but have to release your modified recipe under the same license.
link via we make money not art