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Monthly Archive for April, 2008
A pretty cool visual effect, adding food colouring to milk then a little washing-up liquid creates this crazy psychedelic show.
[via BoingBoing]
This is a really well produced video showing off the extreme fingerboarding (or extreme video compositing) talents of Alexis Milant.
[via Cynical-C]
The Ultimate Machine by Claude Shannon and Marvin Minsky.
About 7 years ago I was reading an article on Claude Shannon and came across one of the funniest ideas I had ever heard. Claude, you see, was one of these incredibly brilliant engineers with an obviously great sense of humor. As I understand it, he, along with Marvin Minsky came up with an idea they called the “Ultimate Machine”. Basically a plain box with a switch on the top. When you flip the switch, a hand comes out of the box and flips the switch off. Thats it.
[via BoingBoing]
‘I Want You to Want Me‘ is an interactive installation which aggregates text from various dating sites then compiles and groups the data into various forms with people represented as floating balloons.
[via bbGadgets]
All of the Rambo movies by the numbers.
Well, tonight I spent the night loading Wordpress 2.5 (which is pretty slick). The main reason for this is that I discovered earlier tonight that some lowlife was exploiting a vulnerability in the previous blogging script to create redirection pages for spam websites.
So…hopefully it is all fixed now, and I begin the long road to clear my domain name of being associated with spammers.
Please do forgive me great googlebot! I promise I wont use old hackable scripts again…
In the somewhat divided view of Flickr’s recent addition of video, the concept of the Long Photograph has been born. The idea is that a short video, even of a (relatively) static subject says much more than just an image.
Looking for more ways to sit with a laptop? check out the Laptop Karmasutra for some inspiration.
[via FunForever]
Brilliant graphics by Australian-based Romainian Luca Ionescu.
The latest in internet meme’ery, YoungMe - NowMe, take a picture of yourself re-enacting a childhood photograph.
[via Neatorama]
The artwork of Arthur de Pins, funny, cartoony and typically French.
Another artist from Amsterdam, Levi van Veluw’s series of self-portraits are among the most creative I have seen.
Colourful, cartoony and sometimes humorous illustrations by Richard Hogg.