I don’t usually reblog these days but I found these two posts yesterday so inspiring that I wanted to share them with you:
Cherry blossoms (found on we-make-money-not-art)
Cherry Blossoms is a backpack that uses a small microcontroller and a GPS unit. Recent news of bombings in Iraq are downloaded to the unit every night, and their relative location to the center of the city are superimposed on a map of Boston. If the wearer walks in a space in Boston that’s correlated to a site of violence in Baghdad, the backpack detonates, releasing a compressed air cloud of confetti, looking for all the world like smoke and shrapnel. Each piece of confetti has the name of a civilian who died in a war based on lies.
Talk about pervasive information and ubiquity…
Visible Maze (discovered via Pasta and Vinegar) is a project by Peter Randall who created this maze that is defined just by the paths on the ground but with no bushes or anything that can block sight.
I think that this image is just amazing: it demonstrates that thin line that separates a space from a playground, and the ultimate truth that this border is essentially defined by the players.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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