Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator created by Jürg Lehni. It extends Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language. Scriptographer includes a library with new drawing-tools and effects that modify graphics. Most of them are really useful! And if you feel up for it, it is possible to write your own scripts.
Scriptographer is open source software application.
Wilfred Castillo has made this beautiful diagram providing the tide prediction in Redwood City Wharf, CA in the month of June 2007.
Wilfred Castillo
De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, presents a new project by the Finnish artist, Otto Karvonen. In ‘Alien Palace’, Karvonen has taken the tense political climate in the Netherlands, the complex debate with regard to immigration and integration, and the position of the ‘stranger’ as the starting point for a new sculptural project. The collection consists of six birdhouses that were specially developed for migrating birds in Amsterdam. In general birdhouses have a welcoming character and are made of warm, natural materials, but Karvonen has opted for cement, aluminium and stainless steel. The harsh aesthetics of his designs are derived from various Dutch detention centres for asylumseekers.
From 24 March these birdhouses will be hung from streetlights in the Vondelpark, close to the Filmmuseum.
The VitraHaus, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is a place where you can explore design classics by designers such as Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouvé and Verner Panton along with contemporary designs by Maarten Van Severen, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Antonio Citterio, Hella Jongerius, Jasper Morrison and others. Here you can find inspiration for your own home furnishings and also try out and buy furniture and other objects on site.
VitraHaus
Poster for the play The Rashomon effect
The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it. It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.
