October 2009
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Trailer for "Love" →
Oct 31st
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Lord of the Flies →
A new edition Illustrated by Sam Weber
Oct 30th
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A Hierarchy of Monsters « Threat Quality Press →
Essential information.
Oct 30th
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ifo　×　rinpa →
Time laps video of painting a skate ramp.
Oct 30th
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Oct 30th
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Goggles on the Googles →
A collection of glasses.
Oct 30th
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Between →
A short film by Tim Bollinger
Oct 30th
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Cell Size and Scale →
An interactive zooming scale diagram. Super cool
Oct 30th
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The Lighthouse Keeper →
A short animated film
Oct 30th
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Woman walks up to complete stranger on bus,... →
saves her life. Ta-da. (via TDW)
Oct 30th
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Full Trailer for "Avatar" →
I’d just like to point out that I called this plot with 100% Accuracy the moment I saw the teaser trailer. However, it will be epic, if not brilliant filmmaking. Addendum: FUCKING PAPYRUS
Oct 30th
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stephen wiltshire draws manhattan skyline from... →
Yeah, that’s happening.
Oct 29th
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ZZZZOMBIES →
A short, stop-motion animated film made by David King using an overhead transparency projector.
Oct 29th
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Big Ideas (don't get any) →
The last one reminded me of this video. James Houston’s entry into the online remix contest for Nude off Radiohead’s In Rainbows
Oct 29th
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Music Video for Mistabishi's "Printer Jam" →
Oct 29th
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Oct 29th
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One Evening in San Francisco →
A Time-Lapse (eek is that the 3rd one today? Well too bad, it’s awesome.) by Ben Wiggins of nightfall in San Francisco.
Oct 29th
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Aerial San Francisco 2009 →
Awesome photos by Todd Lapin
Oct 29th
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“A little boy (maybe 5 years old) wrote to Maurice Sendak telling him how much he...”
– Superhero Journal: Good enough to eat
Oct 29th
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Pulp Fiction Audio Mix →
Excellent.
Oct 29th
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happiness hat →
“The Happiness Hat is a wearable device that detects if you’re smiling and provides pain feedback if you’re not. … Through repeated use of this conditioning device you can train your brain to smile all the time. This is the first in a series of Tools for Improved Social-Interacting.” I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of them.
Oct 29th
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Michael Paukner →
designs visualizations of math, science, history and philosophy. “This phenomenon is considered to be due to critical mass. When a limited number of people know something in a new way, it remains the conscious property of only those people. The Hundredth Monkey Syndrome hypothesises that there is a point at which if only one more person tunes in to a new awareness, a field of energy...
Oct 29th
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Suburban Splendour →
Photography by Graham Miller. One hears “lives of quiet desperation” a lot. This is it.
Oct 29th
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As One →
A short animated film by Makoto Yabuki
Oct 29th
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Trailer for "The Rock-afire Explosion" →
A documentary about the creators of the animatronic band that played at Showbiz Pizza Place.
Oct 29th
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Fly-Lapse →
A time-lapse video by Anthony Powell of his flight into Antarctica.
Oct 28th
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Okie Noodling →
The whole film about barehanded fishing in Oklahoma. With a soundtrack by The Flaming Lips.
Oct 28th
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Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera →
A Time Lapse video of the construction thereof.
Oct 28th
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Farnsworth House →
Amazing 3D work by Peter Guthrie
Oct 28th
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Roller Coaster Patents →
From De Bodisco & De Rivera’s 1869 patent for an “Artificial sliding hill” all the way up to Crawford et al/ Disney’s recent (September) patent for a “Passive magnetic levitation ride for amusement parks” Sweet. Oh, and there’s this one for a “Pleasure Railway”
Oct 28th
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Trailer for "Splinterheads" →
Oct 28th
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Chromeography →
“In praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances — those unsung metal emblems and badges that are overlooked, forgotten, damaged, lost to time or the dump.” Gorgeous.
Oct 28th
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“They work in short, spooling instrumentals, building layers of simple repetitive...”
– Kemialliset Ystävät’s Biography
Oct 28th
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“ AdAge: Turns out Seth MacFarlane isn’t PC enough to be a PC. Microsoft was...”
– John Gruber
Oct 27th
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Terminator 2 Rap →
Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Napalm Dragon →
Slow motion footage of Firebreathers. kewl.
Oct 26th
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LEGO Pop-up Kinkaku-ji →
Quite Probably the most impressive LEGO design i’ve ever seen.
Oct 26th
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10 of the species that have become extinct in the... →
Among them, the golden toad:
Oct 24th
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Oli Lemieux  →
of Cirque du Soleil training on the trampoline wall. wow.
Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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Vodafone Symphonia →
Vodafone NZ performs Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with 53 unique ringtones on 1000 phones via txt msg.
Oct 24th
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Trailer for "Fez" →
A videogame.
Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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Living Photograph: Chris with Teacup →
Unsettling.
Oct 23rd
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New robotic hand 'can feel' →
CYBORGZ! Seriously though, this is awesome. Hopefully they can continue to improve this (especially, I presume, in the cost department) and make it an obvious choice for those with injuries to their extremities.
Oct 23rd
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Fun with water →
Photography by Corie White
Oct 23rd
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TweetMyMac →
Lets you control your macs via twitter :) Finally I can stop dealing with my lazy hacked together applescripts!
Oct 23rd
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Makebelieve Help… →
@hotdogsladies lays it out. Fucking. A. Right. Let me first note that I laughed uproariously at the video to which he refers. I thought it was a perfect example of the now fuzzy, indistinct and homogenized art of satire.
Oct 23rd
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Oct 23rd