CMYBacon.com: Painting with Shadows and Lights

Rashad Alakbarov creates art using translucency and shadows to create amazing art.

Custom R2D2 Sweater on Etsy.com via Coudal.com

Ugly and awesome at the same time.  For $450 dollars it can be yours!

NPR.org: What On Earth? Art And Ads That Can Be Seen From Space

You really can see the Colonel in Google Map of Rachel, Nevada.  Just zoom in.

CMYBacon.com: Retro Electronics Made of Paper


Awesome paper recreations of old electronics.

Photos of hood ornaments and some front grilles of classic cars at the Concours d'Elegance show on Sunday.  Beautiful art in chrome!

LATimes.com: Street artist 'Space Invader' believed detained in L.A. vandalism case

The Los Angeles Police Department believes one of two French nationals detained on suspicion of vandalism near MOCA's Little Tokyo gallery was the famed street artist known as "Space Invader."

I think Invader's works are whimsical and fun.  But, arrest is part of the risk of being a street artist.

sethgodin.typepad.com: Insist on the coin flip

This is also the way we should settle closely contested elections. We know the error rate for counting ballots is some percentage--say it's .01%. Whenever the margin is less than the error rate, we should flip. Not waste months and millions in court, we should insist on the flip. Anything else is a waste of time and money.

If our process of collecting ballots and counting them continues to be an error filled process, a flip of a coin in really tight elections seems like a better solution than the expense of recounting it.   

Businessweek.com: Do Not Anger the Alpha Android

Playtime is over in Android Land. Over the last couple of months Google (GOOG) has reached out to the major carriers and device makers backing its mobile operating system with a message: There will be no more willy-nilly tweaks to the software. No more partnerships formed outside of Google's purview. From now on, companies hoping to receive early access to Google's most up-to-date software will need approval of their plans. And they will seek that approval from Andy Rubin, the head of Google's Android group.

So much for so called "open" software.  Google is the new bully on the block.

CNN.com: Google making app that would identify people's faces

Google plans to introduce a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this week.
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Google acknowledges the nefarious ways someone could leverage facial-recognition technology.
Many people "are rightfully scared of it," Neven said. "In particular, women say, 'Oh my God. Imagine this guy takes a picture of me in a bar, and then he knows my address just because somewhere on the Web there is an association of my address with my photo.' That's a scary thought. So I think there is merit in finding a good route that makes the power of this technology available in a good way."

Is there really a "good" way for using this technology?  All the examples they mention in the article are pretty weak uses.

I can see this being useful in two privacy invading areas- law enforcement and advertising.  Law enforcement would love to be able to identify people in a crowd, speeding through red lights, etc.  For advertising, Google could set up a "Minority Report" like world where targeted ads popping up on signs as you walk by.  Both of these uses raise serious privacy issues.

NYTimes.com: Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion

WHEN the young violinist Hahn-Bin appeared onstage for a recent matinee at the Morgan Library and Museum, a gasp trickled through the audience, which consisted mostly of silver-haired classical-music enthusiasts. Clad in a black sleeveless kimono, dark raccoon-eye makeup and a high mohawk, the soloist resembled an apocalyptic Kewpie doll.

Google Images of Hahn-Bihn

You really have to check out the images to understand.  Somehow I don't think this is the way to draw new fans to classical music.