Aram Zucker-Scharff

At CFO Magazine, we did some research on the ‘What if’ for Oculus if people had invested via the proposed JOBS Act regulations vs Kickstarter, it may not have been that great a deal there either, especially if you wanted more of a say in how your money…

uispeccoll:

Pleased to announce our newest book arts acquisition: 

The Deep by Kevin Steele.

From the artist’s website:  

“The Deep is a tribute to maritime folklore and tradition developed over centuries of nautical exploration. The ocean, which remains immense and mysterious in our own time, was all the more enchanting and terrifying to sailors in an era when being at sea meant a profound isolation from civilization in oft uncharted waters and dangerous passages.

The Deep is a circular accordion pop-up book which unfolds to an oversized eight-point compass rose. The compass, arguably the sailor’s most valuable instrument, not only enables accurate navigation but brings good luck, ensuring safe passage home and protecting against a watery end in the Deep.”

Visit the artist’s website.

If you want to take a look in person just stop by the desk in our reading room and our librarians will  probably offer a bit of assistance.  I particularly recommend getting a group together and stopping by since it is a great one to gather around. 

This Is a Generic Brand Video from Dissolve on Vimeo.

This Is a Generic Brand Video is a generic brand video of “This Is a Generic Brand Video,” written by Kendra Eash for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. No surprise, it’s made entirely with stock footage. All video clips used are from dissolve.com. See and license them here: dissolve.com/generic

The original piece is published on McSweeney’s: mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-a-generic-brand-video

Narrated by Dallas McClain.

Music: “Piano Work 02” by rysktchkw
Available under Creative Commons License from SoundCloud at soundcloud.com/rysktchkw/piano-work-02

explore-blog:

A technical glitch causes the Hubble Space Telescope, which ordinarily captures magnificently crisp scientific imagery of the cosmos, to lose balance and create this inadvertent piece of modern art.

It is suspected that in this case, Hubble had locked onto a bad guide star, potentially a double star or binary. This caused an error in the tracking system, resulting in this remarkable picture of brightly colored stellar streaks. The prominent red streaks are from stars in the globular cluster NGC 288.