couchprojects

1. NastyNet’s contributor Joel Holmberg unearths pups & order – a revelation that the Law & Order theme song has a disturbing effect for housedogs around the globe. Could it be that there are high-pitched musical tones that  only dogs can hear? …or are they sick of their owners watching multiple episodes back-to-back? See the full collection here.

2. A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter - “A physical sculpture that is perpetually trying to auction itself on eBay.”  The black box is currently for auction. If you are the winner of the auction, you have to agree to the terms of the sculpture which entail plugging it into an ethernet network upon arrival. Once the object is plugged in, it will automatically initiate a new eBay auction so that it can be collected by someone else. The artist Caleb Larson was interviewed at On the Media, which you can listen to here.

3. Paris, 2007 by Tim Schwartz.
I can’t remember how I ended up on this site, but it features Tim Schwatrz’s interesting data visualization graphics and sculptures. I like the simplicity of the one above: an odometer that distinguishes if Paris the city or Paris the personality are receiving greater network traffic.  See more here.