Street Carnage: The World’s Ugliest Animals
Why are crude, venomous insults aimed at animals so very consistently funny? Every one of these is perfect.
April 10
Photojojo: Aquatopiary, the Photo Trick that Sculpts Water into Shapes
You’ll probably have to read this whole thing to figure out exactly what they’re talking about (I had to, anyway). It’s a pretty novel idea, and I can imagine some pretty nice results with the right object and some luck. Do this, okay? I want to see.
April 9
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor is back, at least for a few shows. I truly didn’t expect this but damn does it make me happy.
April 8
Cirque du Soleil's TOTEM - Pedro Pires
Pedro Pires explains some of his work for Cirque du Soleil’s new show TOTEM as projection designer—a subject close to my heart. Excuse the isolated link—there’s more info about TOTEM if you want to see it.
April 8
PIXELS
“PIXELS is Patrick Jean’s latest short film, shot on location in New York.” So very well done. (via Claes)
April 8
Colin Marshall Talks to Merlin Mann
If you’re up to date on your Merlin lore there won’t be too much new here, but if you’re up to date on your Merlin lore then I bet you’re the kind of person that will enjoy this (monstrous) interview. (via Marco)
April 8
The Mobile App Dev Rap Battle
I’m having a hard time not enjoying this. In practice I’m on the HTML side but Mr. Native has a much smoother flow so now I’m torn. (via Cameron)
April 6
A Popular Misconception
Khoi Vinh lays out what I was afraid of: Popular Science’s iPad app is actually kind of not that great. It’s hard to fault them though; of COURSE we still have a long way to go. We just started going!
April 6
How the Paperback Novel Changed Popular Literature
I decided today to start using something like a hipster PDA and this article about the birth of Penguin seems like a supernatural signal to proceed. (via Robin)
April 5
Brandon Boyer confronts Jason Rohrer about/through his latest game, Sleep is Death, in Caught Sleeping. You might remember Jason from Passage or his profile in Esquire. Even if you don’t, this article is definitely still worth a look (and a read) because it’s pretty pretty. (via Matt)
April 2
“Using pico-projectors and cameras mounted on a laptop, you can take advantage of nearby table space around the laptop to effectively expand your workspace at will.” That’s Bonfire. This particular project is not the work of Johnny Chung Lee, though his own work in this field is amazing too, so check him out.
April 2
“In an effort to get at the essence of font-design, I averaged all the fonts on my computer and got this.” See more of Rob Seward’s work on his website including his latest, Four Letter Words, via Liz.
March 30
Photo manipulation and content publishing are almost too easy anymore. Michael Buble Being Stalked By A Velociraptor. (via nickd)
March 26
Enjoy Plastic Bag, a short film whose titular character is voiced by Werner Herzog. Laugh, cry. When it’s over, consider what you saw, and realize how alarmingly adept director Ramin Bahrani’s skills are.
March 25
In links to transit directions, Google adds an extra ‘dirflag=r’ variable to the URL so it knows you want transit, not driving. … So I made separate keywords (‘transit’, ‘walk’, ‘bike’) and added the appropriate flag to each.
Ian Westcott on Keyword Searches. His approach, by coincidence or otherwise, takes an often rather nerdy feature of web browsing and transforms it into something that accepts perfectly human sentences.
March 24
