Ikonik has a new DVD which provides kaleidoscopic mandalas and vistas starring whales and dolphins to meditate upon. Green Colorize, an aquascape photoblog from Sweden, features a stunning chlorophyll-based slideshow full of snails and bubbles, insects and algae. Very relaxing. Yugo Nakamura has some fun digital art at Yugop. There are spheres that bounce each other in and out of the screen, clay balls that re-form and potato shapes that are ever in motion. Scott Draves, the creator of Electric Sheep, a pool of screensavers that is a non-stop display of fractals and patterns, has a video link at Centripetalnotion. SM



Ikonik's Dolphin



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Yugop's Jampack



A current favorite at Electric Sheep



Video from Scott Draves

Here's what our parking lots at night might look like thanks to up and coming Swedish designer Louise Barthon. The idea is simple, mix phosphorescent pellets with concrete before you build the foundation and walls. Result: electricity-free lit driveways for up to five hours! Reassuring and economical. Now what if an entire city was built with phosphorescent concrete... AVB

Rick Mullarky, a technology artist from Seattle, makes visual poems. His Designing a Bird From Memory (above) is one of many submissions to the By Design 2 contest. Other recent entrants include Guergana Tzatchkov, an engineer from Jiutepec, Mexico who submitted the interactive Squares, Jeffers Egan's High Definition Motion Paintings and Staceyjoy Elkin's mathematical visualization programs.



Rick Mullarky, Designing a Bird From Memory.



Guergana Tzatchkov, Squares.



Jeffers Egan's High Definition Motion Paintings.



Staceyjoy Elkin's mathematical visualization programs, Azimuth above.