Buy an inch of land in Detroit

Today at Institute for the Future, Jerry Paffendorf is telling us about Loveland, his art/game/activism project to sell real land in Detroit, Michigan inch-by-inch, for $1/inch. He already sold the first "colony," a 10,000 square inch grid called Plymouth. He's now selling deeds Via: Kickstarter to the second property, which will be called either Recovery or Hello World. The second property hasn't been purchased yet, so Jerry calls the investments "ghost inches." When you purchase an inch, you get a nice little deed package containing a magnifying glass to better survey your territory. The little money from deed sales goes back into the project. He also hopes to use the "profits" to provide microgrants to other innovative urban development projects in the city. From the Loveland project:

Based in Detroit, Michigan, LOVELAND is all about creative new concepts in micro payments for micro ownership and use of land. It is building frameworks for many people to invest and participate in the creation of something where nothing was before, and to interact with places both in person and online in various unique ways. LINK: Boingboing Via: Vimeo

The Loveland Project (MakeLoveland)

"Inchvesting in Detroit: A Virtual Reality" (NPR)

Star Trek Voyager Singularity (fast version)

Every episode of Star Trek Voyager playing at once in a grid. Approx. 56 min. duration.

This is a two minute excerpt from a version of the original video playing at 14x speed (reduced from 56 min. to 4 min.). LINK

Grid

This is a fun little strategy game. GRID

Gus Harper - Grid Painting

Time lapse of Gus Harper painting roses on grid. LINK: Youtube

Rotating Grid Optical Illusion

This is pretty trippy: David OReilly found that a large grid rotating at a certain speed will appear to group itself into smaller grids, rotating independently.

It appears the persistence of vision effect overrides our knowledge that this is a single grid and divides it up optically. This only seems to work on a uniform grid (I also had interesting results with a brick formation), but the effect is lost when using a checkered texture.

Link, Via: Neatorama