Interesting concept from Audi – custom vehicle noises for otherwise silent electric cars.
audi e-sound for e-tron electric vehicles from designboom on Vimeo.
Composer Creates Artificial Engine Sounds For New Audi Hybrid [Video] @PSFK.
Marble machines, endless entertianment. A great chronicle of one artists work…
Every time I shop in the Muji down the street from my office, I notice their soothing, hip, and perfectly fitting background music. Sometimes it’s ambient dreamscapes, sometimes pop, sometimes acoustic, but always nice. Today Boing Boing posts a piece about Muji’s BGM ambient background music. Soothing… Makes me remember back to the Buddha Machine, and miss hearing tracks from Brian Eno’s “Hello Waveforms” while out and about.
More details on the now defunct “Things You Should Download” blog.
Pando Daily has gotten wind my company Fueled’s impending move, and we’re as excited as they are. This week we’re still at General Assembly, but next week we’ll be in our shiny new office at 568 Broadway, right along side Foursquare, and a number of others. Excited!
Next month, the building will become home to several more tech companies. Fueled, a mobile app development company with 45 employees, moves in. As will Indaba Music, a social network for musicians, 20×200, an ecommerce site for art collectors, and, I’m told, Bitly, the URL shortening company backed by betaworks. The building is home to some of New York’s fastest growing startups.
Tonight was the April edition of New York Tech Meetup, hosted by friend Nate Westheimer. A few notes from the presentations. Also, if you couldn’t make it to the Skirball Center down at NYU, there are simulcasts right now:
Today TechCrunch reported on Ark People Search, which recently got funding through yCombinator. Combining multiple social networks and online datasources, Ark lets you search for anyone who has a presence on the internet – both via publicaly accessible data as well as private social network you have access too. And there’s really no better time for this. Hot on the heels of network-bridging social location mobile apps Banjo, Sonar, and Highlight launching, Ark is the desktop equivelent. Desktop users, not being use cases for hypermobile powered searches, can narrow down people search via a multitude of technical criteria.
The next iteration of this, as I see it, is combining multi-network customized technical search with usercentric geofenced real time search to produce push notification when that one person who meets all of your search criteria is right down the block from ya. Wow.
Find Everyone You Can’t Google Or Facebook With YC’s Ark People Search | TechCrunch.
Photography consultant Jaime Livingood send me over to this excellent photo essay by photographer Alexandre Buisse. The essay details his time photographing the annnual Patagonian Expedition Race. A great story, with great photos.. a model for my own work.
Because the course is over 500km, often without roads, and because this year there was no helicopter, it was very difficult to stay ahead of the teams. This lead to the biggest challenge of all: managing to run several of the stages along with the racers. In my case, it meant covering about 100 km of bushwacking and bog swamps in 32 hours, all with my survival and camera equipment.
Alexandre Buisse
