The Power of Babble

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

Deb Roy of MIT, has been videotaping the last three years of his son’s life. In an effort to better understand how humans learn language and how to improve the ways we can teach it to machines, Roy has logged over 120,000 hours of footage from cameras placed all over his home. Wired talked to Roy about how the project has helped learning about speech …

Any Color You Like (Pyramid IV)

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

Multidisciplinary artist Dev Harlan combines a foam and plaster sculpture with 3D video-mapping to fully-engaging psychedelic effect.

Caffeine

Stumptown's bottled cold brew, a letterpress iPad app and Deitch speaks—all in this week's link list

German electronic trio Brandt Brauer Frick recently released this crisply-drawn animation, set to their track “Caffeine.” Berlin-based illustrator Danae Diaz and Patricia Luna co-wrote and -directed the piece.