In a week I’m off to China to see relatives and catch the tail end of the World Expo. I saw this in airports last year and even though the furor has died down, I hold an irrational hope that will I see it again this year. Technically more in an older tradition of rhyming [...]
Remember this extra feature from Stop Making Sense? I came upon it while watching David Byrne interview someone else, and all I could hear was the memory of this thing. Thank god for Youtube, on which everything lives… Reminds me of Charlie Rose interviews Charlie Rose.
I’ve got tech on the brain recently. Consider this a prelude to geekiness to come. It made the rounds right quick: Some days …no, actually, every day, I wish I was more adept at actually building things, creating objects.
I’m not sure whether to gawk or to laugh. There is a new sport called “liquid mountaineering” which consists of trying to run on a water surface for as long as possible. I’m surprised that anyone has managed to take more than two steps, but I suppose if you can skip a stone, why not [...]
If you haven’t seen literal videos, you are missing out on some high quality laughter. Ah, the 80s, when they knew how to make incoherent yet overdramatic music video plots! This one is just rarin’ for a literal version. Though on second thought, maybe it doesn’t actually need one…
Sam Easterson mounted tiny wireless cameras to the tops of certain animals to record videos of them going about their business, from their perspective. Judging by the teasers from the Royal Ontario Museum, there’s a lot more than what can be found on Youtube (wolf, sheep?), but those ears make the first one the most [...]
Wooden Path Usually I find free online games extremely boring, but in a fit of forced relaxation, I found one that is actually a mild brain tickler when it comes to spatial reasoning. The idea is to complete a continuous wooden bridge across the water by shifting the stones around in the limited space, as [...]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Binary isn’t always digital. These South Koreans are making a moving image with the two colors of their jackets, which they flip in and out, and the relative positions of their bodies as they move in sync. Can you imagine the number of hours they had to practice?! I love that they are vocalizing and [...]
If you haven’t seen/heard it already, Komar and Melamid did a faux-scientific survey of what elements of music and subject matter people want and don’t want in songs and assembled the Most Wanted Song as well as the the Most Unwanted Song. Of course, the unwanted song turns out to be more interesting than the [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Not quite safe for work – full of… oatmeal pies. Is “camel walk” an euphemism for something that I’m not aware of?
You’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking… From the Scotch Mist webcast. (Wait for the feathers after 3m.) And now, the anti-Radiohead, Coldplay’s video for “The Hardest Part,” featuring spliced Lifetime show footage of an 84-yr old woman dancing in a ridiculous outfit. (Click at your own risk since it is [...]
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Wow. We really don’t like web as a medium. Can you please force our sites visitors to print out a copy of every page? We want our page to be more tangible. I recently spent about 2 months designing an identity and packaging for a new sports product, only to be told at the last [...]
Phil Bergerson Seeing Bergerson’s fantastic use of color, the question that springs to mind is: What if, instead of taking candy from babies, you replaced their box of colorful crayons with a palette of subtle grays? Would they burst out into bouts of Greenbergian crying or become master black and white photographers?
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Banner ads attached to flies! In a more ominous use of animals, apparently the CIA tried a project called “Acoustic Kitty” (CIA PDF) in the ’60s. I kid you not: One of the CIA’s most bizarre Cold War efforts was Operation Acoustic Kitty. In declassified documents from the CIA’s super-secret Science and Technology Directorate, it [...]
