Author Archives: Ola Persson

Pretty sinewave synthesizer

Addictive and pretty. Check it out at aM laboratory.

Music CD Labeling System

Compact disc labeling concept. Each waveform accurately depicts a complete song in a 1-inch square. By Joshua Distler

Tony-b Machine

Be your own DJ. Totally addictive.

Visual tributes to music

Non-traditional media artist iri5 works with old books, playing cards, magazines, credit cards and other everyday miscellany to create compelling, double-take-requiring artwork. Her Ghost in the Machine series uses recycled cassette tapes to create phenomenal portraits of musicians from their original cassettes. … Continue reading

Rollable chair

It’s a chair made of only wood and two strips of flexible synthetic elastomer… Via PicoCool

Brilliant offline campaign

Cutting down prices to 50% from 24/12/08 – 30/01/09

Please

do this on a flight I'm on. Then I might actually listen to it. Normally I just pop my headphones into my ear and listen to music instead . Posted via email from Ola’s posterous

Wave photographs

Quite here lately. Just been crazy busy, but now things are a bit closer to normal. So things should be back to normal rates soon. By Clark from Ohau. Check them out here at bbc. Thanks to Lalai for the … Continue reading

Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If there’s anything good that has come out of the financial crisis it’s the slew of high-quality graphics to help us understand what’s going on. Some visualizations attempt to explain it … Continue reading

Lawrence Lessig is trying to change the congress

By creating a donors strike organized from his site Change Congress. Change congress is calling a donor strike! Special interests pump millions of dollars into elections, giving them more influence over our political system than the rest of us. Can … Continue reading