Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The Jacques Cousteau iPhone app, an electric camper, musical tree rings and more in our look at the web this week

1. Cousteau Collection Connoisseurs of the work of the pioneering sea scientist will delight in the new iPhone and iPad app that reveals a significant portion of Cousteau’s archive for the first time. Users can track exhibitions, meet members of the crew and learn more from pictures and video of oceanic analyses inspired by Cousteau’s findings. 2. Years Reading the rings of wood cut from …

Golden Gate Camper

The Jacques Cousteau iPhone app, an electric camper, musical tree rings and more in our look at the web this week

San Francisco artist Jay Nelson has created the ultimate electric camper for hyper-local excursions. While the range is a meager ten miles, the plywood, epoxy resin and fiberglass vehicle has room for a bed, sink, stove and toilet. Drivers are required to sit cross-legged while revving the electric bike-powered engine.

Pow

The Jacques Cousteau iPhone app, an electric camper, musical tree rings and more in our look at the web this week

The work of augmented reality trailblazers Reed + Rader, “Pow” is a series of animated gifs that brilliantly combines avant fashion and low-tech digital art. The Brooklyn-based duo created the gifs, inspired by 8 bit video games, for the debut menswear collection of Central Saint Martins Graduate Student Chi He.