I love when packaging is useful and thinks beyond the contents. Tuned Pale Ale is a great concept. It’s as easy as drinking your beer to the line indicated and blowing a well-tuned note. Apparently the bottle has ridges on the back for percussion and the box contains a tongue drum. They need to have an open competition that challenges groups of people to use only their packaging to recreate (or just create) monolithic pieces of music.

Maybe a set of crystal glasses with a similar measure would help people create one man orchestras…

A great visualization of movement during 2008.  Pictured is Charleston, SC: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement. via Forbes

Tales of the Unexpected by Carl Burgess.

Very relaxing for your eyes and brain.

Glenn Gould wrote an opera where he wanted to cast animals. At the end of this video he sings to elephants. It’s hysterical! CLICK TO SEE — can’t embed, also very quiet. A few others:

Gould singing and playing Bach, takes a break to sing it out.

This video helps explain how he reinterprets a very famous Mozart piano sonata.

James Fuentes Studios curates some great artists. In particular, William Stone is doing some interesting exhibitions.They all seem to have a strong perpetual feel. Fans blowing fans, reflection-based seesaws, tree framed trees… enjoy.

Great, fun project site. Mini sites of play. Check out those domain nuggets too! Haven’t explored all of them, but hats off to newrafael.

** Thanks Brandon Oxendine. Remember that name world, you’ll see it again soon.

Ever thought about tanning at the beach next to a parametric equation that is wearing trigonometry instead of sunscreen?

When I spent most of my time thinking about math problems I would often think about modeling very complex phenomenon, like writing a function that describes a cat’s motion throughout a day, or how a pretzel rises in the oven, or what a graph of a delicious bite looks like to your tastebuds….

I do believe that everything can be modeled, however complex, but that the complexity of doing this is not well behaved.

Anywayssss….. this girl Nikki Graziano took it to the streets. And by streets I mean to the forest and to the beach.

Best Use of a Palmetto Tree:  Julien Berthier, French artist.

This video is not boring at all! and somehow it makes us want to bathe in cheese.

Do You Eat Crap? Like Punching Sandwiches?

Immediate applications (besides the cubicle wall application suggested in the video) that I like are GLASSES, WINDSHIELDS, STOREFRONTS, CUPS, um, great. Yeah, wow.