Hey y’all. Just wishing everyone a great holiday season and a productive 2010.
Please enjoy this fun, festive video, and thanks to Shain for sending the link.
Ringing of the Bells – The Muppets
Artist Katie Paterson recorded the sounds of an Icelandic glacier, pressed it on to records made from glacier ice, and played them until they melted.
Sound recordings from three glaciers in Iceland, pressed into three records, cast, and frozen with the meltwater from each of these glaciers, and played on three turntables until they completely [...]
I would go absolutely nuts for this piece of equipment. My gear-senses are going off the radar just looking at it. Apparently it’s a working condition, Tandberg TD-20A 4-track reel-to-reel recorder from the 1980s. It’s currently going on eBay for £399.99 or best offer. It also comes with 30-or-so tape reels — I love how [...]
If you haven’t heard about the UK government’s shortsighted, ridiculous and widely-opposed plans to disconnect web users suspected of illegal downloading, then it’s worth getting yourself educated. A petition asking the Prime Minister to amend/drop the bill has been started at the official Downing Street website, and so far it has almost 30,000 signatories. Add [...]
We’ve done movie-themed Adidas trainers before, and these enigmatic shots should get any red-blooded sneaker fiend and Star Wars junkie itching for a closer look.
From Hypebeast:
For its Spring/Summer season adidas Originals teamed up with Star Wars for a memorable collection of footwear and apparel. Although the theme has been used in the world of [...]
This is really cool: a Flash-world that zooms you through a series of interlocking paintings. Very psychedelic. To get an idea of how they did it, check out the still images from the first Zoomquilt. Mad props to all the artists involved.
The Zoomquilt II (via Boingboing)
American Soldier is a photo journalism project following the life of a young American, Ian Fisher, as he enslists in the US Army and becomes a soldier. I am not sure about the imperialistic notion of “defending our country” which seems to dominate sentiment in the comments thread, but the project itself is quite incredible. [...]
I just installed Minimalist Gmail, a sweet Firefox extension by Matt Constantine which nices up your Google Mail interface. Now where’s that Google Wave invite…
Minimalist Gmail by Matt Constantine
Remember Microsoft’s recent marketing ploy, made with a bunch of fairly-lame viral videos, which encouraged people to hold Windows 7 ‘launch parties’?
Well, this one is much better.
“Celebrate the launch of Windows 7 by illegally downloading your very own copy!” (via Boingboing)
Car manufacturers Volkswagen have launched a new project – the fun theory – which explores the idea of changing peoples’ behaviour for the better by making things more fun to do. This is achieved through various interactive installations in public places, such persuading people to choose the stairs over the escelator, by turning the stairs [...]
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Zoomquilt II: Flash-world made of paintings |
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‘Urban knitters’ take over Inverness |
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Cybraphon |
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Photo Journalism: The Making of an American Soldier |
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