from my digital collection: ONE-A-DAY

There's a fantastic trend for artists and designers to post one *thing* a day. Not only is this initiative a great prolific push for the artist, it also truly embraces the web as the world's most immediate, immense and accessible art collection. The following art-a-day-blogs function as both inspiration and archive:

We all know the youtube-made-famous Noah
Randel Plowman collages each day
Duane Keiser's daily still lifes
30mins draws every other day
it's not daily but, Amy Rupple sells out monthly art shows
the week in review's community contributed news

My favorites:
Kate's playful drawings of a daily purchase
a-monster-day, and on video too!

iPhone

There's a lot of chatter about the new apple iPhone. Watch Job's keynote and check out what Jeff Han showed off at TED earlier this year.

Here are my thoughts:

RAVES
(1) The "pinch" is amazing! I can't wait for multi-touch designing! Imagine pulling type with your fingers. Adobe are you listening?
(2) With this device, the digital has become real. Something to be touched and understood in reality. Let us retire the word "virtual".
(3) i want!

RANTS
(1) It's missing a few items. What about the video-cam for vlogging and skype? I suspect the next version will have it.
(2) Only cingular? How about an equal opportunity one-phone for all providers?

from my digital collection:THE ART OF SCIENCE

A creative eye can spot art-potential in just about anything, but science seems to be a best-bet for inspiration. The biomed photo awards showcases some beautiful imagery. These other-worldly gardens are found growing in petri dishes.

These craftsters have tackled the art of science with crocheted chaos and hyperbolic models. These are particularly beautiful beaded cellular clusters. For animated versions of cellular-automata check out these old-school screensavers.

I have painted an amoeba or two myself.

from my digital collection: SOUNDS GOOD part II

For anyone who knows me, I'm very into different modes of "online collecting". Here are some sites I bookmarked awhile back that visualize digital music collecting in one form or another. This research project visualizes the search process. While in concept it maybe intriguing, I cannot get past the 3D cube as an aesthetic answer (ick).

Of course, I recognize I'm biased as a designer and therefore find musicmap more visually pleasing. Plus, (in case you haven't noticed) I love revealing tangential links which is what musicmap does across music genres. However, my audio-file husband was not so impressed with the results. A New York-based digital artist has mapped the shape of songs into beautiful minimalism.

My favorite tool is freesound's remix tree. Its back-to-basics interface fades to the background allowing my curiosity to wander from remix to remix. Nifty.

from my digital collection: SOUNDS GOOD part I

Two things I'm interested in are textile design and technology. Since I have yet to mix the two areas together I wanted to call out some folks who are playing with wearable sound. This sonic fabric is an interesting student project. A German art group creates these dada-esque installations. And you can even purchase and wear this equalizer t-shirt.

A series of tubes

By now, we all learned that the Internets is actually a series of tubes. You can image this machine may look something like this or (my particular favorite) this art installation.

Jon Stewart explains the complexity of the Internets with this animated visualization. Perhaps myspace had a momentary clog, but luckily those in charge quickly resolved the untimely blockage. I imagine it went something like this.

P.S. On a serious note, you can help save the internet.

from my digital collection: DIY CREATIVITY

To start off "from my digital collection" the theme is Do-It-Yourself Creativity. These tools allow you to create your own online art (and obviously use the same or similar bit of flash code). With a little time you can master Pollock and Imagination Cubed offers a group experience if you invite your friends. The Sheep Market is an interesting experimental concept centered around the idea of collective intelligence. Oh, read more about that here.

introducing from my digital collection

Content comes and goes so fast online that pretty much everything becomes so-2-weeks-ago. Prestige is gained by being the first to post, or first to read about it on a blog. When someone shares a link that you already saw weeks back, the ephemerality of the internet offers you the sweet satisfaction that you have a secret inside track to coolness found online.

But, isn't old news (if it is good news) worth a re-visit? There is a reason I bookmark sites. The act of saving a link designates it as special, intriguing, or relevent to me. Therefore here, on my blog, I will revive old favorites and take a stroll down my digital memory lane. I'll post under "from my digital collection" those links I think are worth a second look. (Or maybe a first look for some of you.) While you will not find the newest content hot off the internets, you will find souvenirs of my past surfing travels. Enjoy.