Ask your own questiones...

Don’t just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis? (Paul Halmos, “I want to be a mathematician”)

OpenZoom

The other day I ran into a note by a friend, about doing something different for a lab presentation. Instead of using slide by slide Powerpoint architecture, we can create a single document with zoomable parts designed to communicate the necessary points of the presentation. This might be interesting especially if you use a multi-touch pad-computer - you can do some interesting things. This also make me think of interface design from "Minority Report."

Experiment and let me know what you think.
http://openzoom.org/

Couple of examples:
http://www.albawater.com.vn/#/en/composition/

similar project from microsoft labs
http://seadragon.com/
(check out simple bike poster-presentation)

Sporting Sails

Sporting-sails, I like sailboats and sails, however this something different. Still there is something neat about this idea.

Who needs a store bought Instrument?

Sometimes we get so caught up in the at we idea that we need a particular tool, but the truth is that we can always improvise.

Here is a preview for "It Might Get Loud," check out the scene with Jack White:


Another interesting artist that uses trees sand and other instruments to make his music (Diego Stocco):

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/3/29/sound-builders-diego-stocco-constructs-blockbuster-music-in-his-backyard

Chess Set Designs

Who said that you need an official chess set? Make your own.
Check out these art designs:

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/9399/the-art-of-chess.html