Emily Davidow

<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyd/tags/pier63″>Pier 63</a> is dead. Long live Pier 66!

Semacode | URL barcodes | practical ubiquitous computing
Semacode’s Software Development Kit is a system for ubiquitous computing. Using the Semacode SDK you can create visual tags for objects and contexts, and read them using a mobile camera phone.
(tags: ubicomp ubiquitouscomputing barcode mobile internetofthings)

The Kaywa Reader
Kaywa’s QR (Quick Response) codes are visual [...]

Kevin Kelly — Artist In Residence
The following is a list of organizations that offer opportunities for artists to collaborate with scientists, technologists, or professionals in business or industry. Many are experimental laboratories where artists collaborate with scientists.
(tags: art science artists technology business industry crosspollination artist-in-residence)

How many times have you looked lovingly at your magnificent yet suffering Aralia, begging it to tell you what it wants, what you’re doing wrong?… Botanicalls opens a new channel of communication between plants and humans, in an effort to promote successful inter-species understanding.Botanicalls allows plants to place phone calls for human help.

Five Art DVD Magazines from CoolHunting
“Laser Graffiti Writer by Tenzin Wangchuck, featuring music by the Venetian Snares. Digital effects enable Wangchuck to deface the side of a building with a flare, writing “Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum” (a buddhist mantra) in tibetan script.”
(tags: art animation graffiti thingstocheckout design film)

PSST! Pass It On…
Original short films [...]

To think that we can “solve” climate change without addressing poverty, human rights, democratization, conflict, epidemic disease, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, food issues and the like is to suffer from carbon blindness.

…cool tool allows you to create free live talk shows via phone/web with simultaneous text chat that then become podcasts.

Typology of Green Consumers – No Such Thing as a Green Consumer?
Study found there is no such thing as a completely green consumer; even the greenest only considered green or ethical criteria for some of their purchases, some of the time.
(tags: shopping consumerism sustainability green environment)

italki – online language exchange and resources for language learning
(tags: [...]

Open Architecture Network | Improving living standards through collaborative design
Architecture for Humanity’s collaborative space for community designers and all those interested in improving the built environment. Post their projects, browse projects posted by others, comment and review projects, discuss relevant topics, contribute to
(tags: architecture opensource design collaboration sustainability reference technology sustainable environment green home resource [...]

“‘Don’t discuss polar bears” memo to scientists from US Fish and Wildlife Service
Polar bears are the new vagina.
(tags: science climate politics environment weather arctic globalwarming censorship orwellian iseveryoneherebananas? government society usa)

Forget the film, watch the titles
love this: an online collection of the most stunning and original film titles.
(tags: film animation design motiongraphics video titles movies [...]

dotherightthing.com
a social aggregator site for learning and sharing information about how companies impact the world.
(tags: accountability action activism transparency aggregator environment sustainability tagging green corporate consumption responsibility economics ecology entrepreneurship ethics finance philanthropy)

videos from LIFT conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society
Enjoying Ben Cerveny’s “Luminous Bath: our new volumetric medium” (thanks, [...]

The Ticking’s gorgeous cover design compelled me to pick it up, but Renee French’s touching story of Edison Steelhead and his relationship with his father kept me reading all the way to the end. If you like the creepy-warm works of Edward Gorey or Tim Burton, you’ll love The Ticking.Thrilled also to discover Korgi, Christian Slade’s lush graphic adventure tales of a girl named Ivy and Sprout, her Corgi on from the same publisher.

flowers are cliched, and sometimes not allowedfood’s tricky — they’re on a special diet.heal with humor — try giant microbes.here are a few i’ve been intimate with over the years:GiardiaE.

One of my passions is to collect and sell indigenous religious antique artifacts. I once received a call from a New York City dealer telling me about a rare Ming Dynasty Buddha available at a very good price. He said he would send it to me with no obligations. When the package arrived, I opened [...]