On Jan. 7, the police cordoned off the streets. The auditorium’s ventilation and elevators were turned off. Every light bulb in the concert hall was unscrewed to eliminate a faint buzzing sound.

Upstairs in the museum, Mr. Cacciatori put on a pair of velvet gloves and took a 1615 Amati viola from its glass display case. He inspected it thoroughly, and then a security guard escorted him and the instrument down two flight of stairs to the auditorium.

The curator handed the instrument to Wim Janssen, a Dutch viola player, who walked to the center of the stage.

A very interesting article by a guy who went and did what I have been thinking of doing myself: experimenting with using a genetic algorithm and translucent polygons to render (somewhat distorted but cool-looking) photos and other images.

Tom Guilmette spent a productive evening locked in a Las Vegas hotel room with a Phantom Flex high-speed/high-def video camera, taking high-speed footage of water, breaking glasses, himself jumping on the bed, and other everyday phenomena that become amazing and dramatic when slowed down to wachowskiian speeds and cleverly edited.

In this graphic, when a train departs from its originating station, its path is traced on this webpage as a growing coloured string that is "plucked" by intersecting trains. Just as with a real stringed instrument (a cello in this case), longer train lines make lower notes when "plucked" than short ones. Time accelerates in this graphic, so you can watch a 24-hour train cycle. An interesting addition to this map is the artist's inclusion of discontinued subway lines: these so-called "ghost trains" slip by in the middle of the night.

According to his blog, Brooklyn resident Alexander Chen built this web page by combining MTA's public Application Programming Interface with Javascript, vector graphics (SVG), HTML5 and a dash of Flash. Many people find the sounds soothing or mesmerising, and some have likened the resulting sounds produced by this graphic to the music of John Cage.

Big Cartel provides you with your own independent store to sell your stuff online.

Visualizes the HTML DOM of any web page as a graph.

This scientific visualization creates a three-dimensional virtual tour of several dark pillars of cool gas in the Carina Nebula. The stars and nebula layers from Hubble's two-dimensional image have been separated using both scientific knowledge and artistic license to create the depth in the movie. Of note, the relative distances between stars and the nebula have been greatly compressed. The result is an intriguing journey through a virtual cosmic landscape.

This version of the movie is presented in anaglyph stereo 3D and is viewable with glasses that have a red lens over the left eye and a cyan (a.k.a. blue-green) lens over the right eye. Such glasses are often made of cardboard and have been distributed in numerous 3-D promotions. An internet search for "red cyan anaglyph glasses" will provide many options for obtaining such glasses.

Pick a starting color and get complements, triads, tetrads, etc., calculated automatically.

Here are a few manner posters that appeared in the Tokyo subways between 1976 and 1982.

Who do you think you are to make demands?! I’m the client, I get to make the demands! It’s not like this is a real job anyway, all you’re doing is drawing.