Notes from the desk of... [2004 Aug 25]

• Since it was basically self-released and is getting re-released this fall and I hadn't heard it as of this morning, Menomena's debut record I Am The Fun Blame Monster might just be my new candidate for record of the year. Bloody amazing pop record.
  (Make sure you check out their website-- Pitchfork said it best: "Website voted new herald of lo-fi aesthetic, best of Geocities.")




• Most of these Farks of Millenium Park's Crown Fountain are really bad, but this one is great.




• This 3-d display cube is really interesting. At this point it's basically a low-res 3-d television-- each LED is a pixel. And although it's a really cool physical visualization for house music, (see the designer's website for some videos of it in use) it also raises an interesting question about the future of graphical displays-- If the resolution of the cube could be sharpened to that of a computer monitor (maybe instead of LEDs it would be fiber optics suspended in clear resin), could this be a superior way to visualize 3D data? Imagine actually being able to look at a computer-modeled product concept in actual 3D-- while it's being created-- instead of trying to interpret through a 2D display! Not to mention the ability to visualize architecture, infrastructure maps, or complex data plots dealing with three variables. Interesting stuff.

  8/25/2004