This has been lingering in my blogging queue for sometime and I am actually quite pleased it has, as the collection has almost doubled in the past couple of weeks.
They are a collection of various types of insect, made from steel gears, springs and other watchmaking widgets. They are also quite reasonably priced roughly $300 each.
[via Watchismo Times]
This reminds me very much of my Coffee & Tv style animation from a couple of years ago. Except in this image the eyes and mouth aren’t added to the pots, look closely and you will see that they are actually just a reflection of the hobs in the foreground.
Awesome!
[via BoingBoing]
hmm…I think some of the subtleties of the plot are lost.
[via Cynical-C]
So these are the icons that the best (and worst) designers will be seeing in their docks in 2007. I must say, there are certainly going to stand out from all those nice picture icons.
Actually, I really did dislike them the first time I saw the rather ’standard’ blue photoshop icon but now they are starting to grow on me.
Apparently, they are designed by the same team at macromedia who made the set of typographic icons for the studio mx. Coupled with the typographic styling of the guy behind adobe garamond.
I get the impression that these may eventually evolve into permanent icons for each application, a little tweak of the letters here, some different shading there. Not such a bad thing, as the adobe icons have been different for each CS generation (once they moved away from the classic eye) and a little consistency is good now and then.
It seems most of the graphical pundits aren’t too enamored with the new design direction, a few can see the sense behind the decision.
Either way, they have generated plenty of extreme reactions from commenters, which certainly creates passionate users.
Years of practice or hours of post-production…I’ll let you decide…
[via J-Walk]
This is a collection of the 100 worst album covers in the world, there are some absolute classics in here too. Funny how christian rock bands seem to have quite a high showing here…
This listing is a little more complete than the one I posted almost two years ago, although there are some omissions.
2007 will be the year that interacting with the web (rather than just reading it) will become mainstream. So who better to make predictions than read/write web.
RSS will go mainstream in a big way next year - not only integrated into Microsoft’s new Vista OS, but also fully integrated into Yahoo Mail when it comes out of beta (the Ajax version).
The consumerization of the enterprise trend will start to infiltrate corporate IT, in the form of web-based office apps and more collaborative systems.
Rich Internet Apps will be a major force in 2007 (a continuation of the Hybrid web/desktop apps theme we focused on this year).
…and lets not forget Browser War II - the revenge.
If I remember I will link back here next year, so we can all laugh at how wrong and innocent the predictions were.
[via Read/Write Web]
xRez make big images, in fact they make really big panoramic images and stitch them together using the Google Maps api so they can be zoomed and panned around like, well, a map…
Check out the gallery of their work, huge photos from scenic places around the world.
[via The Red Ferret Journal]
…I expect you die Mr Bond…
Achieve true super-villain status for only £3600 (eek!). I guess the long-hair white cat comes as an added option.
[via Crunchgear]
Then let me put the entries on this site directly in your inbox.
Since my rss subscription list is growing on a daily basis (except the days when it shrinks), I thought I would also add the ability for the rss-challenged to subscribe to updates via email instead.
Thanks go to feedburner for making this feature so simple to add.
This is the Guoliang Tunnel in the Taihang mountains of China, not quite dangerous enough to be in the top 5 dangerous roads of the world list (they also missed the London part of the A30), but still would be pretty hairy at 40mph.
Before 1972, the path chiseled into the rock used to be the only access linking the village with the outside world. Then the villagers decided to dig a tunnel through the rocky cliff. Led by Shen Mingxin, head of the village, they sold goats and herbs to buy hammers and steel tools. Thirteen strong villagers began the project. It took them five years to finish the 1,200-metre-long tunnel which is about 5 meters high and 4 meters wide. Some of the villagers even gave their lives to it. On May 1, 1977, the tunnel was opened to traffic.
[via Kottke]
For the 80’s kids, this is a collection of wallpapers inspired by classic 8-bit games. Including this one above which is supposed to be Bruce Lee (arf!) from the classic atari game. Bubble Bobble, Jumpman, Donkey Kong and (of course) Pacman are also represented.
[via Joystiq]
