December 20, 2011
This is so very nifty
Via: CableTV.com
Categories:
blasts from the past, wonderful oddness, television, Doctor Who
November 19, 2011
November 18, 2011
Spell with Flickr
Spell with Flickr is a nifty little script by Erik Kastner. Type in a word and it puts it together for you using letters in photographs on Flickr. I've been spelling things all night.
Wired in the Commons
As you may have already heard, Wired.com has done a wonderful thing:
Beginning today, we're releasing all Wired.com staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license and making them available in high-res format on a newly launched public Flickr stream.
Wired has some really excellent photography, so this is quite a trove. I wonder if any other companies might follow suit?
October 21, 2011
Abandonment Issues
I have long had a deep love of abandoned and crumbling places. I know I'm not alone in this. Ruins are fascinating, a little sad, a little creepy. Of course, the beauty in ruins is made more complicated when the beautiful, crumbling structures are in the midst of modern American cities. It is easy to equate urban decay with beauty when you aren't trying to live in the middle of it...when it isn't your city that is falling apart.
The photos of 100 Abandoned Houses were shot in Detroit, which certainly has more than its fair share of urban decay. When we look at these, are we rubbernecking? Are we vultures? Do we pause and think, there but for the grace of god and the vagaries of economics goes my city? My home?
Whatever the case may be, they are beautiful, though hard to look at. They make me want to say a prayer and buy American.
October 19, 2011
Two amazing videos
Whale Fall is a beautiful, cut-paper animation illustrating what happens to the body of a whale when it dies. Sound morbid? It's not.
Whale Fall (after life of a whale) from Sharon Shattuck on Vimeo.
5:46 am is a hauntingly lovely imagination of an empty, flooded Paris.
5:46 am from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.
October 14, 2011
50/50
Courtesy of the New York Times Magazine, excellent pre- and post-makeup shots of runway models, with a Flash-based slider to transition between them. The effect is really nifty.
October 7, 2011
Men in Traditional Female Pin-up Poses
Rion Sabean put together this excellent series of men doing some of the typical "pin-up girl" cheesecake poses. The guy with the shovel is probably my favorite.
October 1, 2011
How Do You Stack Up?
The Art of Clean Up: Sorting and Stacking Everyday Objects
(My favorite it the alphabet soup.)
The Colors of Comics
The Colors of Good vs. Evil: Comic Book Color Palettes [infographic] By COLOURlover
"Blue: the ultimate hero. Bright Red: Also used by the ultimate hero," as a Brewers and Badge fan, I can get behind that.
