Sound map of natural conditions of the United States by the National Park Service, estimating how places would sound naturally, without human influence.
The trend is higher sound levels in wetter areas with more vegetation. This is due to the sounds of wind blowing through vegetation, flowing water, and more animals (especially birds and frogs) vocalizing in more fertile locations.
You can look at higher res maps here and also see the sound map of existing condtions.
incroyable…
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"My first Photoshop dream. I dreamed I was erasing my past in Photoshop, but it turned out that I was using the ‘clone tool’ - so instead of erasing I was just copying chunks of the past into the future. (Consider the inverse: that you think you’re using the clone tool - reclaiming memories - when in fact you’re using the eraser.)"
Brian Eno, 21 November 1995 (via eno1995)
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Death Mask
Programming project from Or Fleisher and Anastasis Germanidis combines Augmented Reality and Machine Learning, using a Neural Net trained for age prediction through mobile camera device:
‘Death-Mask’ predicts how long people have to live and overlays that in the form of a “clock” above they’re heads in augmented reality. The project uses a machine learning model titled AgeNet for the prediction process. Once predicted it uses the average life expectancy in that location to try and estimate how long one has left.
The aesthetic inspiration derives from the concept of death masks. These are sculptures meant to symbolize the death of a person by casting his face into a sculpture (i.e mask).
The experiment uses ARKit to render the visual content in augmented reality on an iPad and CoreML to run the machine learning model in real-time. The project is by no means an accurate representation of one’s life expectancy and is more oriented towards the examination of public information in augmented reality in the age of deep learning.
(Source: orfleisher.com)
(via (20) Everything is Everything by Koki Tanaka - YouTube)
Always worth watching again. A pedagogical masterpiece.
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Today is Taeyoon Choi ’s Birthday. After following his work for years I finally met him, saw him present, and participated in his short work at the Eyeo festival earlier this Summer. ( I’d love to do a longer one, like a session at the School for Poetic Computation.) I was taken aback by how very intimate his work is, how especially in a live setting, I not only found myself intellectually stimulated … but also emotionally moved. This Summer he is serially publishing a new book online about his experience of building a computer basically from the ground up. This is the most recent chapter: http://avant.org/project/zero-one/ .