This is kinda fun, it is a realtime display of what has just started playing on the radio accross the US and where the radio station playing it is located.
Sure is a lot of music being played…!
Monthly Archive for September, 2006
hmm…perhaps I wont burn the katamari damacy soundtrack to play in the car…
Some images from the private show of Banksy’s exhibition in LA. You know, the one with the painted pink elephant that everyone seems to dislike…
The first few images are star spotting, kinda dull…but then it moves onto shots of the works in the show, there are some pretty neat pieces including plenty of thrift store painting reworks (like the one above).
This is a gallery of what can only be described as Escher meets SimCity. The artist is Josh Keyes.
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The imagery of Josh Keyes’ artwork is a response to the endless storm of information, events, and visual phenomena that we encounter in today’s culture. Like an archeologist, Josh isolates narrative scraps from the world and places them in the void of the canvas to see what they might become. The images are meant to feel clinical and detached, with a diagrammatic quality that arises from his desire to see things more clearly. Compartmentalized and remote, they comment on the isolating impact of technology and our culture of consumption.
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Great stuff!
Showing how bitchy car companies can be…I wonder if it is the same ad agency?
Browsershots is a really handy tool for checking your site in many different browsers on many different platforms. You submit the site address, wait about an hour or so (hopefully less in the future as it becomes more distributed), then reload the page and see what your site looks like through the eyes of everyone.
It also has a recent screenshots page showing the past bunch of screenshots taken…nifty way to spot visually appealing sites.
This is what happens when the aircraft (pictured) releases a whole bunch of smoke flares. The lovely vortex effect is created by the turbulence of the wings.
Kinda reminds me of some kind of flying spaghetti monster (or something).
or so they say…
Kottke, and then about 50 other blogs pointed to my blog post and flickr photos from my stolen phone, and I instantly had about 40k unique visitors and 78k pageviews on the post. The story got 2100 diggs. My blog’s server crashed. My comment mechanism went down (and is still down, sorry)…I had about a dozen obscene emails, 20k+ views to my photostream, and a handful of calls to my desk phone at work with people saying things like ‘what the fuck are you doing?’ in the space of three hours. Many weird words were used. I think it’s over now. Whew. I will be happy to get back to obscurity.
Can you guess which one of these girls is the one generated by a very talented Indonesian 3d artist known as Max Edwin Wahyudi? Actually, you may have noticed that it is just one girl; Song Hye Kyu, a Korean actress…of course if you didn’t spot that then you might be surprised when you click the image to see the full 3d model.
See the initial (and slightly freaky) work in progress for the model
Wow…this is one of the biggest, most detailed pixel art creations I have seen…I was looking at it for ages! There are about 100,000,000 pixels here (400 tiles, 500×500each), so it will take a little time to load…I don’t recommend doing it on a slow connection!
I especially love the collection of people doing (what looks like) single-whip in a tai chi grid ontop of a roof…although it looks like a few of them have balance problems, especially the one embedded in the floor nearby.
Version 3 of the blog is now online, many things are probably broken…I will work through them.
The design is influenced by numerous other sites which I have a great deal of respect for, most notably Khoi Vinh’s beautiful Subtraction and Michael Heilemann’s technologically amazing Binary Bonzai.
Perhaps the biggest thing about this update is the wordpress hacking that went on before hand. This all began a number of months ago when The Humanized Reader first came to my attention. This is the future, I thought…page-less websites, no more next buttons brilliant! I then got thinking about how I could implement a similar thing to the blog, and one weekend when all other entertainment had run out, I decided to dissect the code and work out how it was working and whether this was even possible.
I will be the first to admit that JavaScript is not my strongest language, not by a long way. But after a little tinkering, I managed to bodge a working version of the humanized code into the existing wordpress code that runs the blog. So now when you reach the bottom of the page, the little ajax request object goes speeding off and grabs the next five posts, and lo, one ever-scrolling edwilde.com (well, until you reach the first post - I tried, and gave up after 10 minutes of scrolling).
Unfortunately, in the process I have somehow managed to break the tagging system, I am sure it isn’t critical though and it will be fixed in time. I also dread to think what this does to the server load, I will be implementing a caching system pretty soon to elevate this. In the meantime, I am sure it will survive.
This is a brilliantly done timelapse image of the Toronto skyline from Sam Javanrouh (daily dose of imagery - one of my favourite photoblogs). There is also a flash version of the photograph where time changes as you move the mouse left and right…definitely worth a look.
This is what happens when you put a piece of paper and a scalpel to good use…paper sculptures by a Vietnamese artist (unfortunately my command of the language is not sufficient to find his/her name).
Some of the works have a simply stunning use of negative space.
Perhaps this is what people feel like when they come to the big city…or perhaps it is just a bunch of entertaining photos of little model people adventuring in London.