Ben Stevens › Stuff that happened in 2010

cool CD packaging with built-in headphone jack + electrical components (via DJFood.org) http://www.djfood.org/djfood/1-bit-symphony-by-tristan-perich

2000 year-old Antikythera Mechanism recreated using Lego (via @fastcodesign)

Today the Stevens household expanded by one member. Welcome to the world, Alexander.

  Nihil Ex Nihilo [MaxMSP] (via @creativeapps) http://www.creativeapplications.net/maxmsp/nihil-ex-nihilo-maxmsp/

A parting snapshot of the old studio in Bow.

Yuri Suzuki’s solo show: ‘Sound Interjection!’ @ KK Outlet, Hoxton. http://www.kkoutlet.com/art/2010/yuri-suzuki

The Poundshop #2 @ Bethnal Green E2 http://www.thepoundshop.org/poundshop_two.html

astounding visualization of asteroid discoveries from 1980–2010 (via @feltron)

I went to the launch party for the Science Museum’s new ‘Who Am I?’ exhibition last night – snapshots from the event: Science Museum – ‘Who Am I?’ Launch Party photos

Really loving this voice-controlled iPhone clock by studioheat. KEI 2010 is available on the App Store in English and Japanese (via @creativeapps)

  Don’t Panic – desktop image (via @SupernovaID)

Footage from recent visit to UVA’s Speed of Light installation in London

Digging in the Crates is an interactive installation by Roland Loesslein which attempts to explore Sampling as a production technology of modern music. Dynamic music data is navigated using modified turntables with information graphics helping un (via Digging in the Crates [Flash, Sound])

It’s About Time – Volume 1 [iPhone] A collection of nicely designed clock apps for the iPhone on creativeapplications.net

Concept interactive magazine app built with Flash.

Exhibition by Åbäke* & Yuri Suzuki from Saturday 13 February —Saturday 20 February 2010 at Clear Edition & Gallery, Tokyo Japan. SUZUKI ÅFFICE

Studio Array aka. Jens Jenson & Hans Kim. Studio Array

Snapshots from Kinetic Art Fair 2010 Kinetica Art Fair gallery

A look back at some of the projects I worked on during 2009: Rock Constructions- identity design & website (www.rockconstructions.co.uk) VN01 Oscillate- limited edition screensaver (www.youtube.com/watch?v=stCiONNuE8Q) Alphabetas- typeface design (3D browser: www.benstevens.co.uk/projects/alphabetas) Freelance projects:: Matt Rowe Music – Flash website development (Agency: Rehabstudio) KangaROOS Global – Flash / Papervision3D website development (Agency: Rehabstudio)

I was fortunate enough to stay in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean over Christmas, a truly unforgettable experience I’m glad I had the chance to do before the islands are inevitably lost to the waves some time this century (a fate shared by similar low-lying islands in the Pacific). During the trip I visited [...]