Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine

‘Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine’ is an interactive sculpture by Yarisal and Kublitz. "Experience the most satisfying feeling when a piece of China breaks into million pieces . All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will Slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger." Visit their website and click the images. Some are movies and each one is cute, inspiring or even just plain...

Automatic Kite Drawing

via todayandtomorrow.net Automatic is a video and drawing project by William...

Entrepreneurial Code of Conduct: Take the Oath…

Doctors have the Hippocratic Oath. It is an ethical framework on which they can fall back when they have doubts about the right course of action. I think it must be comforting to have some kind of guidelines to fall back to when the shit hits the fan. As far as I'm aware there is no Hippocratic Oath for entrepreneurs. I think there should be. In business you are often forced to seek out the boundaries of ethic behavior. How much profit can you make before you feel like an extortionist? How...

If Picasso would have been alive today…

Was Picasso a great painter or a great artist? I think he was a great artist and used the technologies that were available to him at the time. What would have been his medium of choice were he alive today? Would he blog? Use Twitter? Make animated GIFs like the image above? Or produce weird videos and be famous on Youtube? Is talent universal and...

Modern version of ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’

via todayandtomorrow.net I talked about 'Der Lauf Der Dinge' before. The original is a classic but I like this new bluetooth, gsm and infrared powered version...

The Road to Success

I'm so glad someone finally gave me a map. Click for a bigger...

As we both know…

A friend of mine had an argument with his girlfriend about who should do what in the house. She told him she was doing all the laundry and that maybe he should help out with that. He replied that he always took care of dinner. He bought groceries, prepared the meal, served it and then cleaned the dishes. She replied "Yeah, but that's not fair. You 'like' cooking". They were both right, of course. It is easy to discard anything you are good at as nothing special. You make something and...

Technology Development: Trains & Hitchhiking

Most people think software development is like traveling to a certain destination by train: You set a goal, pack your bags, board the train, and the only variable between you and your goal is the speed of the train. Unless the whole thing derails, you end up where you were planning on going. Unfortunately software development is more like hitchhiking: You set some general goals (somewhere sunny), pack your bags and after that where you end up depends on a whole lot of variables: who...