All By Himself

Sure, it's easy to be a one-man electronic band these days. But perhaps none is more ambitious or persistent as McRorie.

Taking on the true tradition of “one-man band” with a classic repertoire, his corporeal ensemble includes drum-sensor footwear, a chest full of drum pads, shoulder tilt sensors, and my favorite: “Armband G-Force Sensors.” Top that off with a kilt and you have a legend.

Drum 'Circle' Redefined

Here's a table that will make you and your dinner guests finish up quickly to make way for an all night drum session. Artist Tor Clausen has developed the Musical Rumba Series which are hand built tables where you can specify your desired table size and percussive components. Simply start playing playing and unleash your inner raga - like Chatur Lal.

Art from Code

Generator.x is a platform exploring the use of generative strategies and software processes in digital art, architecture and design. It focuses on a new generation of artists and designers who embrace code as a way of producing new forms of creative expression.

Learn more about generative aesthetics like the above image here or check out Generator.x's flickr pool.

March Madness

On my bike ride in to work today, I was thinking that it would be a good idea to share this awareness test with as many people as possible. How many passes does the team in white make?

Extreme Embroidery

A show entitled Pricked: Extreme Embroidery at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York showcases 48 artists who use embroidery to "explore into how centuries-old handcraft traditions are rejuvenated in the mainstream of contemporary art and design."

Neat stuff. The phrenology heads are my favorites.

Polish Expo 2010 Exposition Pavilion

Resembling a giant paper folklore cut-out, this building is the winning entry for the Polish Pavilion in Shanghai's 2010 Expo. If this structure is actually built, one of the most stunning views would be at night, when the exterior is backlit with different colors.

Nothin' Like a Little Visual Thinking

Brain blockage? Got your noggin in a rut?

Can't think straight? Open your mind and let

the experts at Sesame Street help you out.

Here, here, and here. Visualize baby!

By the way, the second one is the grooviest.

Ecommerce Done Right

The Dutch company HEMA who opened their first store in Amsterdam in 1926 has figured out the perfect way to promote and sell products on their shopping site. Why hadn't other online retailers figured out how to do this sooner?

Meet the Matteses

They call themselves 'hactivists' and the word 'subversive' shows up an awful lot when they're talking about their art.

The work of Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.ORG, pivots around the idea of identity in a world gone plastic and electronic.

I love the gallery titled 13 Most Beautiful Avatars, followed closely by Annoying Japanese Child Dinosaur.

Magnificent Hearst Castle

Having gone to university on the Central Coast of California, I have taken several visitors to San Simeon to tour Hearst Castle. On my recent weekend trip, I still find myself amazed by the absurd architectural detail exemplified by the Roman Pool, and it's 1-inch square, hand-placed mosaic tiles. Gaudy as the castle's styling is, there is no way to discount it's significance. William Randolph Hearst had an eccentric vision and famed San Francisco Architect Julia Morgan had the talent and temperament to bring his dreams to fruition.