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Surfing Noerrebro style – or how to create your own wave…

  I recently stumbled upon this amazing piece of technology, AMOEBA, which seems to be able to generate lines and shapes on a surface of water. “The wave generators move up and down in controlled motions to simultaneously produce a number of cylindrical waves that act as pixels.” I want one. Someone suggested a reference to the water creatures [...]

Is this a hilly soil pile of the tropics? Is this the belly of the beloved? Volcanic ashes weave these waves of soil, carve these coloured curvy creatures onto the surface of the planet.

Me and filmmaker Anders Weberg got carried away by the waves, and made this short experimental film, exclusively for Share a Brainwave: Ripples Anders made the video, I made the sound. Our associations oscillated between the inconspicuous and ripples in time. The film follow the aesthetics of some of our previous projects, like: Surreal Scania [...]

Remember those days of New Wave music and fashion?

The phonograph… is not of any commercial value (Thomas Edison 1880) Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote (Grover Cleveland, president of US 1905) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk (Harry Warner, Warner Brothers Pictures 1927) I think there is a world market for about five computers (Thomas J. Watson, IBM, 1943)  

Artist Reuben Margolin has created a series of wooden kinetic sculptures, which he calls Waves. One of these sculptures “The Square Wave” (image) is made of wooden dowels controlled by an awesome mechanical contraption. You really have to admire the tremendous effort and degree of precision this guy has used to create exactly these billowing [...]

It has been known for centuries that use of convulsions in the brain, causing epileptic seizure – like rebooting the batteries - can if not cure then at least make life easier for people with deep depressions. And that people are more likely to live life and not commit suicide with this treatment than with just medicin and/or [...]

I just read a great post ‘Creating Passionate Users’ wrote on serendipity. The introduction to the very long post that is full of examples and advice to work on goes as follows: You know the feeling: You follow a near-random trail of blog links and land on the post that solves your big business problem. [...]

To add a nerdy touch to this Brainwave, I will say that, quantum mechanically, everything behaves as a wave. Light, heat, sound, magnetism–at a small enough scale all of these are treated as waves. The way things behave at human scales is just a simplification of this wave behavior. When you look at things on [...]

My post on the wavy scissors made Cyclone Bill challenge me to ‘make a nice wavy cutting for shareabrainwave…’ Sooo – I accepted the challenge – and here it is… (although I cheated a bit and used a pair of normal grown-up scissors): A wavy cutting for SHARE A BRAINWAVE

On the topic of the many shapes of water I remembered a couple of digital projects attempting to literally manipulate the shape of water. The project “Bitfall” (top image) creates temporary physical water sculptures in mid-air. It’s a kind of giant vertical matrix printer consisting of a number of synchronized valves spurting out ephemeral imagery. The images only exist for a very short [...]

Have you noticed how it’s possible to know, that you are attracted to someone in the room almost even before you have seen the person in question? Feels like magnetism. Or gravity. There are definitely some sneaky brainwaves responsible for that! The British have a word for it: Fancy. To ”fancy someone” means that you [...]

My fondness for museums of almost any kind caused me and my family to travel all the way to faraway Thyborøn in Western Jutland (DK) one summer. Arriving on the small ferry from Agger tange in the north, we could instantly smell that Thyborøn is a fisherman’s haven, situated on a peninsula with one side to [...]

I recently visited the new museum of urban planning i Beijing. It is a highly recommendable sight for anyone remotely interested in city planning and architecture. They have great models showing the ambitious plans for the city’s rapid growth in for the coming years, a great section on the environmental intiatives that are to make [...]

Frk. Jensen’s post on The powers of water reminds me of paneldebate on ‘Religion versus science’ I once overheard. A scientist (probably a meteorologist) explained how – under very, very rare and extreme weathercircumstances – the Red Sea could actually have split in two to allow the Jews to escape from the Egyptians. This was [...]

Another brainwave on Protection from water and the effects of global warming. Floods occur. Even in Copenhagen. In 1760, the water level in the Southernmost part of the harbour (Avedøre Holme) was 3,7 meters above normal, and in 1825 stories go, that it was possible to travel through streets nearby the Copenhagen Harbour by ship. [...]

Wave originates from Old English: wafian, from Proto-Germanic *wab-, from Proto-Indo-European base *webh- “to move to and fro, to weave”. Thus one can easily fit the handwave into the concept of brainwaves or even waves as physical phenomena: The movement back and forth. So far, we’ve discussed royalty a little but we haven’t really discussed the royal wave – [...]

When I got the invitation to SHARE A BRAINWAVE by mail it was like an overwhelming wave of energy runnig through me. It grew even bigger and stronger when I got to this blog. Nadja was right. We are sharing waves. Waves full of energy. Even though we might be thousands of miles apart from [...]

E’s post Being a Fish reminds me that the very same Danish poet – Pia Tafdrup – published an amazing collection of poems in 1998 called Dronningeporten. It is devided into nine sections – all named after the different shapes of water: The Drop The Lake The River The Well The Sea The Liquids of [...]