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For her entry in this year's Positive Posters, Dominique Falla hammered this clever design out of a few nails and strings:
For too long, people have viewed themselves as separate and I wanted to represent a multitude of individuals using the nails, and then coloured string to show how we are all interconnected, and that together, we can make something beautiful.
Link - via designworklife
Actually, string theory is something completely different, but it’s a cute title for this geometry problem at Futility Closet. A boy has his toy boat in the water, and he is pulling it to shore by a string. If he pulls in one yard of string, will the boat advance a yard, or less than a yard, or more than a yard? The answer may surprise you. Link -via TYWKIWDBI
Daniel Palacios took a piece of string and two motors and turn them into an amazing art installation:
‘Waves’ utilizes a basic construction of a long piece of elastic string and two motors to visualize the presence of people close to the installation. The string between the two motorized chambers reacts to the people presence and movements, it twirls to produce a sine-wave simulation that eloquently resembles both the digitization of real-time sound waves and patterns of flow and connectivity found in natural systems.
Hit play or go to Link [Vimeo]. More at Daniel’s website: Link – via TomJohnson’s ComputerLove
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Archaeologists examining an undersea site in Britain have discovered something wonderful: an 8,000-year-old piece of string!
Our ancestors made it by twisting together what seem to be fibres of honeysuckle, nettles, or wild clematis, and used it in their struggle for survival as the last ice age ended.
This early piece of technology, measuring about 41/2in must have been a revolutionary advance at the time, useful for binding together weapons or tools.
But in case you don’t believe me that it’s a wonderful find, here’s what British Archaeology mangazine editor Mike Pitts said about the discovery:
‘It is a fantastic find. I don’t think the average person realises what an important piece of technology string has been over the ages.’
Indeed. Link – via Scribal Terror
