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Friday, April 15, 2011
Remember producing spin art at childhood carnivals (and, if you were really fancy, with your in-home toy set)? Claire O'Neill's NPR piece, "How Sound Can Create Sculpture," tapped into my fondest paint memories this week. Dentsu London—the creative agency behind last year's iPad light painting video—has merged music, paint, and photography to create Water Figures. "Water Figures are sculpted by the action of sound waves which eject water based paints into the air from the surface of a rubber membrane (balloon) placed over the front of a small speaker like those used for computers," explains Linden Gledhill, the biochemist/photographer who ...

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Links We Like

Friday, April 08, 2011

Sure, we talk about books all the time. But Open Road is plugged into the world beyond books, too. Each Friday we'll step outside of the industry silo to call out what caught our eye. Whether we're talking about technology, museum exhibits, education—and, yes, sometimes books—we're happy to share Links We Like with readers.

  • Although I liked being a Girl Scout as a kid, I was always jealous of the adventuring the Boy Scouts got to do. Playing with bees? Swinging around giant rocks? Making fires? And, in 2011, building robots. According to NPR, the Boy Scouts have now ...

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  • Crime Fiction Lover

    The site for diehard thriller and crime fans

  • Flowing Data

    Nathan Lau highlights how designers, programmers, and statisticians are putting data to good use.

  • inReads

    inReads sits at the crossroads of books, technology, and culture.

  • The Great Gray Bridge

    Editor Philip Turner's blog spanning urban life, books, music, culture, and current events.

  • The Huffington Post

    The Internet Newspaper

  • The World's Best Ever

    The World's Best Ever: design, fashion, art, music, photography, lifestyle, 2011

  • Watt's Up

    Wattpad's Blog and Daily News. Wattpad's like YouTube for ebooks and is the world's most downloaded ereading app.

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