Fastballs, All Summer Long
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Baseball season started just the other day and was greeted with Stealing Signs: Dead Ball-Era Baseball, a collection of paintings by Mark Penxa. A nostalgic collection, filled with statistics and a memory of supposed better days. Less biting and more melancholy than Pettibon’s ballplayers. More figures-as-art and statistics-as-canvas by Louise Despont, here and here. Some notation as art as notation by Penderecki.
More aesthetically pleasing data in the form of network graphs on GitHub. Making source control social, easy to grok, and colorful.
The recursive packaging art of the Droste Effect, via Torrez.
Super Mario Brothers written and embedded in a single 14kb Javascript file, with more info here. Still dreaming of computer games of the future. Similarly, how about a database built solely with HTML tables and Javascript.
We Made This inspects QR codes and QR code scarves.