June 2010
3 posts
the "Speak and Spell" Team →
and here they are now!
"as the girl said..." hitchcock →
first known recording of a “that’s what she said” joke.
Intelligence in Lifestyle magazine →
December 2009
1 post
Ode to Neutra-Face font →
via gpenston
November 2009
7 posts
Star Wars Weekend Ads →
some cool new ads for Star Wars weekends at Disney-MGM. some of them are relatively funny.
Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009 →
36,000sf home on lake minnetonka →
it’s going to be de-constructed so the materials can be reused.
shot for shot Pixar copy →
YouTube Doubler
ok. but why?
Mechanical Tauntaun Costume →
Here’s the vid of what it looks like and the title should take you to his how-to page. Sheesh.
Top Gear: why we're mad about the boys →
Top Gear Season 14 started on BBC2 this weekend and the Guardian did a great piece on my favourite car boys.
July 2009
1 post
awesome wedding invitation →
June 2009
1 post
Welcome to binge Britain →
Absolutely Brilliant →
Brian & Eileen’s Wedding Music Video. from LOCKDOWN projects on Vimeo.
Aside from the fact that it’s just awesome, the logistics are really impressive. Bravo.
May 2009
5 posts
Les Ballets Jackson "Fiesta Hippie" →
Possibly NSFW depending on where you work; you can see boobies, though they are tasteful, arty, 60s boobies.
"Landslide" by PS22 →
Great cover by Public School #22.
Pygmy Jerboa →
I would eat this little guy.
ewkwardian family →
March 2009
1 post
wonder sauna hot pants →
February 2009
1 post
Mummified Soviet-era East German flat →
An architect in Leipzig discovered a perfectly mummified pre-Berlin-Wall-fall East German flat, filled with Soviet-era “products” in a state of dessicated perfection: It appears the inhabitant of the humble flat fled in a hurry and shrivelled bread rolls still lay in a string bag. Grocery brands from the Socialist state filled the kitchen… A wall calendar showed August 1988 and...
January 2009
4 posts
Melting Bunnies →
really quite pretty.
great pictures from Inauguration night →
great images regardless of your politics.
Abandoned Mansion, Beirut →
WALL•E wood →
evidently this was commissioned by Disney as a gift for Pixar/Disney Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, though it seems like it should go to Andrew Stanton to me.
December 2008
25 posts
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Vital Statistics →
this was inside a wallet that was bought in Japan. my favorite is the Pizza.
via easydreamer
1 tag
Krazy KitKat flavors →
the link above is to a flickr set of odd Kit Kat flavors. the yummiest is the one shown here. for those of you not familiar with Kanji, that says “Soy Sauce” flavored. yummers!
via oftenheard, via neatorama
Vintage Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Photos →
i meant to post this last week. some awesome pictures of the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade through the years. the above is my favorite.
via designrelated
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Top Gear - 2009 Ford Fiesta Road Test →
most people don’t realize that the BBC’s Top Gear is the most-watched english-language television show in the world. the above segment is a good example of why.
they take the 2009 fiesta through the normal paces such as speed, cost, build quality, whether a zebra head will fit in the trunk. then they also test how it behaves when one is being chased by a Corvette inside a...
site for coraline movie is up →
this is the screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s excellent children’s story Coraline. Henry Selick (of Nightmare Before Christmas fame) directs.
it’s a flash site, but very pretty. one pass-key is “buttoneyes” and you’ll need it to enter the site. (some other pass-keys are: stopmotion moustachio puppetlove armpithair sweaterxxs & otherworld)
there’s...
soviet retro fantasy video →
«Огоньки» Ляпис Трубецкой «Lights» Lyapis Trubetskoy from Alexey Terexov on Vimeo.
it’s a fantastic effect.
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reprints of antique medical illustrations →
I collect antique medical illustrations from the 18th and 19th century. My collection is small, mostly because the really beautiful pieces are usually quite pricey. For a more affordable option, Transmission Atelier is a fine art printer in Chicago that also reissues antique medical, religious, mythology, and natural history illustrations. They’ve picked some fantastic pieces to reprint. I...
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The Adobe Installer Sucks →
there’s been a lot of talk recently about how much the Adobe Installer sucks. you can find a great list of that talk here.
the always delightful John Nack blogged about it and had some of the installer folks defend themselves here.
it’s good to see that they are paying attention. let’s hope they change their ways.
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Super-Secret Spy Lens →
Candid shots of people just living their lives and doing real things completely unaware that they were on camera. The Super-Secret Spy Lens($50), which is basically a periscope that attaches your SLR’s zoom lens, allows your point that zoom lens as a “fake out” object. It uses a secret cut-out on the side and a precision mirror assembly inside to let you point the real...
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Math Sculptures →
Here’s the 4-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron, projected into 3-space for the occasion of this sculpture. It’s named for its 120 dodecahedral faces, which appear skewed in this projection, but of course in 4-space they are all perfect regular dodecahedra.
One of the great things about 4-space is that it has six regular solids – polytopes – rather than the five Platonic...
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Mile of London Tunnels for Sale →
For sale: a vast tunnel complex in central London. Former tenants include Britain’s secret service, the famous hot line between America and the Soviet Union during the cold war and 400 tons of government documents. The asking price is $7.4 million.
via nytimes.
badass.
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steampunk startrek →
someone got themselves some photoshops.
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possibly the greatest video ever made →
Shine on me by mikropikol
this is possibly the greatest video ever made. i defy you to tell me what the hell is going on.
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Paris natural history emporium fire →
Deyrolle has always been more than a shop on the classy Rue du Bac. Founded 177 years ago by Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle, a well-known entomologist, Deyrolle has been a natural history emporium with the look and feel of a museum, except that just about everything was for sale.
Deyrolle’s stuffed menagerie — from black crows to big-game animals — its cases of butterflies and beetles, its signature...
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Ars Reviews Photoshop CS4
as always, a thorough review of Photoshop CS4.
The good
Much faster document drawing with new GPU-based engine.
64-bit on Windows gives a large speed boost for huge images.
Content-aware scaling gets good results, and it’s easy to use.
3D painting is well-executed.
The bad
Tabs and panes are badly done on Windows, and the perfunctory execution on the Mac is a disaster.
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solemn HSBC commercial →
We recognise how people value things differently. So what we learn from one customer helps us better serve another.
it’s a great, odd, solemn commercial.
Jeff Mangum returns from the dead →
Jeff Mangum & Co.- “The Fool” & “Engine”
I haven’t been so overjoyed by a piece of music news in a very long time:
Jeff Mangum, the fragile, brilliant musician who created In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and On Avery Island, has not performed the material publicly since 2001… until now. The notoriously reclusive Mangum finally broke several years of radio...
BMW custom Lo Rider
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/18/bmw-shows-off-a-slew-of-custom-lo-rider-renderings/
BMW shows off a slew of custom Lo Rider renderings
Obama cites Michael Pollan →
“There is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy economy. I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollen about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean...
Norwegian Übër-Bläck-Mëtäl Devotees →
Of all the bands featured, Beste focuses on the Tolkien-inspired Gorgoroth and its lead troublemaker Gaahl, who’s been arrested twice for alleged assault and torture, and whose face, with its sunken cheeks, looks even creepier without makeup. And that Krakow gig in 2004 not only included human crucifixes but sheep heads mounted on sticks. (Dude, one photo of decapitated sheep heads would’ve been...
Freddie Mercury was Indian →
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) a British musician [snip] was of Parsi descent and grew up in India, has been referred to as “Britain’s first Asian rock star.” Mercury was born on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were Parsis from the Gujarati region of the then province of Bombay Presidency in British...
great post on Python 3 →
all this talk about Python 3 had me worried; this makes me feel better.
more from ars as well.
begin
welcome. we’ll see if i actually use this.
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