The end game is now in sight. The Digital Economy Bill is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which - unless amended, which HMG says it will not - will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably negligent search. That is potentially about 90% of the photos on the internet.

UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public | Copyright Action

Words fail me every day because a picture is so much more telling.
I’m afraid that I can’t see beauty anymore.
I paint the world black.
No word will I take back.
It belongs in the trash;
The picture just got smashed.
So show me something better;
Words that feast my eyes.
Closure softly erasing all the numb pain.
Hardly a pretty picture all the same.
I’ve thought of some words for you,
because of the thousands only several matter.
They constantly burn my mind.
In the quest to find letters to deliver
they but always escape into the dream
and wash into a picture,
Whenever I think of you.

You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a trickster of high magnitude. So I loaded the image in Photoshop and examined the two spirals. In the two squares displayed below, the one on the left is colored using the same color from the blue spiral, and on the right using the green spiral.

The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

As professionals, we prefer logo, logotype, mark, symbol, wordmark, icon, visual identity or signature. With this many choices it is no wonder others have settled on the irreverent bug. Incidentally, a long-time friend in Mumbai told me of some of the general names for logo in India include pintu (pint sized), chintu (tiny), dabboo (fat) and kaka (small one). (But depending on the specific region, language and even community in India, kaka also can mean poo-poo, as elsewhere. I guess context is everything, when calling a logo kaka in India.)

But whether we designed it, manage it, or just live with it, having a name for the logo appears to fulfill some human need. Some companies provide a formal name, such as The Monogram (GE). Here are a few logos and their officially sanctioned names:

The Bug, the Worm and the Death Star � Identity Forum

An Annotated Interactive Timeline on the History of Information and Media 70,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE Timeline

From Cave Paintings to the Internet: 70,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE Timeline

A motion picture essay which takes a revealing and shocking look at modern life and its imbalances. The first film in a trilogy which was followed by Powaqatsi.

I watched this a couple months ago. I didn't know there were sequels planned.

Koyaanisqatsi

Cubism in 3D isn't quite as impressive, but it's still pretty neat.

Picasso's Guernica in 3D - by Lena Gieseke

wow

glumbert - Kinetic Sculpture

Some of these are really amazing

Peter Callesen

All kids should be raised with these.

YouTube - Interactive Toys by Anastasia Ward