Self-Medicating Media: Relax in Online Ambiance Rooms
Need to generate some 3D blobs? Use this little web tool.
A collection of writings and thoughts about being a "good enough parents "Every parent wants to be a good parent. And every parent, every day, fails at that because, right now, being a good parent is literally impossible."
Museum Alive is an augmented reality app narrated by David Attenborough that puts prehistoric creatures on your literal desktop.
Andy Works is making aesthetically bold iOS apps that prioritize "play, aesthetics, and quality-of-life over efficiencies". So far they're doing simple apps: timer, calculator, weather.
Chill Room, a playlist of long, relaxing nature videos.
The Competitive Quartet
Salut Salon is a German musical quartet that plays classical music with a “passionate virtuosity, instrumental acrobatics, charm and a great sense of fun”. For a little taste of their vibe, check out this video of the four of them playing Vivaldi’s Summer with a mock competitive spirit that escalates with increasingly outlandish & impressive performances. This article calls Salut Salon “the Harlem Globetrotters of piano quartets” and that’s pretty accurate.
Design studio Collins has created a new brand identity for the San Francisco Symphony that uses type in a playful, almost musical way. This brief video demonstration is worth 1000 words:
Even better, you can experiment with your own type and music with the Symphosizer web toy. I made this (to the beat of Daft Punk)
The Otherworldly Sounds of the Long String Instrument
Here are a pair of videos of Ellen Fullman playing the Long String Instrument, an musical instrument with up to 100-foot-long strings that Fullman has developed over the past 35+ years.