Did you know? (version 2.0), an update to the very popular Shift Happens video from a few months back.
[via information aesthetics]
Archive for the 'Culture' Category
A gallery of retro-futuristic drawings from the golden age of retro-futurism; the 1930’s to the 70’s.
[via BoingBoing]
This is where I will be tomorrow evening, watching the premier screening of Rio Blanco: The Mine and the Farmer, the culmination of many hours filming, editing and re-editing by a couple of my good friends; Dave McNulty and Mikey Watts.
Back when I was a student, Mikey gave me an email from some unknown location in the north of Peru saying “dude, some guy’s just been shot in cold blood, you have to come out here with a camera”. Fantastic invitation I thought; with little experience behind a camera, and zero experience making documentaries; we decided to give it a go.
The public Facebook invitation is here, which has all of the details on where to go for a crazy South-American flavoured evening.
Published by the Japanese Ministry of Environment, this is handy guide to Furoshiki; the traditional art of wrapping cloth for transport.
Ok, looking back I am starting to notice the distinct wasabi flavour to the past run of posts, this isn’t intentional…just seems to have come out that way. Anyway, Yutaka Loves London is an cool little site with some hipster places to visit if you are in London, would be great with a little more content.
Guess we will have to wait for Yutaka’s next visit.
This is one to leave on your screen when you go out to lunch, of course, if you do, expect a small crowd around your machine when you get back.
The Uniqlock is a simple clock telling the time in Tokyo and every five seconds showing a five second clip of some random Japanese dancing girls. Tough to explain, even tougher to explain why it is so compelling. It is also available as a high quality screensaver to download, if you can find it.
[via Red Ferret]
A simple Buddhist teaching, explained by Alan Watts, animated by Matt Stone and Trey Parker (the southpark guys). There are a couple of other animations here.
[via Electro-Plankton]
Saw this little 45 second advert for gum the other day, seemed vaguely familiar. It is fascinating that the video for Blur’s Coffee & TV seems to have had more influence than the song ever did.
[via Motionographer]
Not the kind of world clock which tells you what time it is in the world, this one shows interesting numbers (estimated) about the world, such as how many people have been born or died and how many bicycles produced.
Quite interesting…makes you feel pretty insignificant though.
[via The Red Ferret]
Flying dangerously close to marketing a foodstuff as a medicine, these function drinks are gaining popularity in silicon valley. Different drinks in the range promise a stamina boost, weight loss, intelligence boost even a hangover cure and have a ton of marketing science and research to back them up.
I wonder if they actually work?
[via NotCot]
Oh dear, why do I get the feeling this will probably make the papers…
A techno-cartographers dream, a map of online communities on the web scaled by size of membership. Compiled by Randall Munroe of xkcd and really nicely grouped based on common crossovers and mentality.
We are summoning forth the proletariat around the globe to aid us in this revolution. We call on the common man to rise up in revolt against this evil of typographical ignorance. We believe in the gospel message “ban comic sans.” It shall be salvation to all who are literate. By banding together to eradicate this font from the face of the earth we strive to ensure that future generations will be liberated from this epidemic and never suffer this scourge that is the plague of our time.
Now that’s a campaign I can support!
[via BoingBoing/Earz]
Great story behind this one…ThinkGeek is well-known for it’s april fools products, last year was the wireless power adaptor this year was the 8-bit tie.
In fact, so many people thought this was a great idea (and well within the realms of possibility) that they actually have decided to produce it.
[via Geekologie]