How To Report The News

Good reference for your news spoof. Charlie Brooker shows you how.

Miniatur Wunderland

The Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg Germany, consists of 11,000 metres (36,089 ft) of railway track at H0 scale. Divided into five sections (Southern Germany, Hamburg and the coast, America, Scandinavia and Switzerland), the exhibit opens its new section, featuring an airport, later this year. It includes 900 trains made up of 12,000 carriages; 300,000 lights, 200,000 trees and 200,000 human figures.

ProFORMA

ProForma (Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition) is a system that allows live on-line generation of textured 3D models. Very cool.

Push Your Ideas

Nice animation, and hopefully book, for the Langara College Rethink Scholarship.

The Making Of The Shining

Wonderful documentary about the production of The Shining, created by Stanley Kubrick's then-17-year-old daughter, Vivian.

The Eyewriter

Using eye-tracking apparatus and custom software The Eyewriter allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

Richard Feynman On The Social Sciences

Planning in advertising and what we don't know.

If You Could Collaborate

If You Could Collaborate is a new exhibition at London's A Foundation Gallery, in which leading designers and illustrators have created artworks in partnership with people from different professions and backgrounds. Of particular note is Anthony Burrill's work with astronomer John Griffiths, and Calligraffiti (above), a collaboration between typographers Craig Ward, Sean Freeman, and Alison Carmichael.

A Little Knowledge Goes A Long Way

Cool animation from Australian agency Three Drunken Monkeys and director Sean Pecknold for BBC Knowledge.

Type Trumps 2

Designer Rick Banks has created Part 2 of his Type Trumps card set, a pack of 30 game cards representing a selection of classical typefaces. Statistics include year of design, weights, cost, rating, legibility, and special power.

White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria

This film of a Neutrophil white blood cell chasing a Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria was captured on 16mm by David Rogers from Vanderbilt University. Very cool.

AR.Drone

Drone is a cool Quadricopter AR game for the iPhone. One of many on their way from the Parrot agency.