Have you been a victim of the Yarn Bomb?

LINK: bloomacious: Trend | Guerrilla Knitting (aka Yarn Bombing) Goes Global

Accounting program goes from #1 to #51 in 1 year

What happened?

Students are polled on the quality of teaching and recreational facilities while institutions are polled on the average SAT scores of their student body and their faculty-to-student ratios.

Corporate recruiters are surveyed to see which schools produce the best equipped graduates and have the most innovative curricula.

The Brown & White - Business programs see sharp drop in rankings

End of the Semester

tweenbots

NYU Art Student Kacie Kinzer designed the tweenbot:

LINK: tweenbots | kacie kinzer

Lehigh University artist in residence mapping Bethlehem's biorhythms

I first heard about this guy over a year ago, when I was doing research for a mapping project. And now he's at my school!

LINK: lehighvalleylive.com: Lehigh University artist in residence mapping Bethlehem's biorhythms

South Mountain, April 3rd 2009

A study in atmospheric perspective. Click on image for larger version.

Scenes from a Thursday Afternoon

After almost 5 months of cold weather, springtime at Lehigh brings back 2 great things to the University Center's (UC) front lawn:

-the lush green grass: -and the adirondack chairs:

My favorite outdoor spot was filled with students today as our subtle magnetism to nature and sun brought everyone out of their dorms and libraries to study outdoors. Sadly, most students will be leaving in a little less than a month, so lets hope the coming weeks are more sun than rain.
In other news, the STEPS Building is coming along quite nicely. Here's what it will look like when it's finished:
LINK: Lehigh University: STEPS

Latif Bolat

I recently had the opportunity to meet Latif Bolat, a Turkish Mystic and Musician, twice in one day: first in my SMC seminar class of 10 people, where he played some music and spoke to us. The second encounter was at the SMC/Humanities Center sponsored dinner/concert later that night. I highly advise taking a look at his CDs and translations:

Link: Latif Bolat :: Official Website

Speaking of WIRED Magazine...

They have a cool slideshow of this year's coolest watches from Baselworld, a trade show for watchmakers.

Link: Times Are a-Changing: Watches From Baselworld 2009

My Favorite Magazine is Dying

I love WIRED Magazine. Last year, a professor gave me 4 year's of the magazine from the dot-com era, and I am committed to reading every single article.

LINK: Gawker - Wired.com 'Gutted' in Conde Layoffs - Conde Nast

April Fool's Roundup

Is it just me, or is everyone getting in on the april fools jokes today? Here's 2 of my favorites:

Qualcomm Innovation - Wireless Convergence

The Neat Company - NeatReceipts Origami Organizer

If you've never heard of NeatReceipts,it's a device than scan all you receipts into your computer, so you no longer have to collect them in a shoebox.

Kinetic Design on Core77

My favorite Design Blog, Core77, has some pretty cool videos and writeups on kinetic design:

LINK: Kinetic Design and the Animation of Products, by Ben Hopson - Core77