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Month: May 2011

  • →Bringing a Webcomic to the Page: A Chat with Zach Weiner

    Zach Weiner, author of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, my favorite *funny* webcomic of all time, on the rise of geek humor:

    The less obvious thing is this: we’re all very in tune with machines now in a way I think the last generation wasn’t. For example, when one of my parents doesn’t know something (like, say you pass a statue in the park, but don’t know the person it portrays) they’re okay with being resigned to not knowing. I just pick up my phone and look up wikipedia. I, and many others, use sites like wikipedia, google, and wolframalpha so much that they become like working knowledge. So, for comedians, this opens up possibilities. I can make a joke knowing full well many people will have to look it up. This is okay (within reason) because information is so available.

    http://blogs.forbes.com/jasonoberholtzer/2011/05/02/bringing-a-webcomic-to-the-page-a-chat-with-zach-weiner/

  • ➟ This music video for Justice’s "Civilization" is spectacular

    via youtube.com

    The soundtrack to Adidas’ recent “All-in” advertisement. Essentially, the decline of civilization is marked by the presence of Katy Perry in a campaign designed to celebrate athletes.

  • ➟ One week’s worth of food by various cultures, in pictures

    via homelessnation.org

    The top spenders: this family from Germany, at $500.07 a week. From the book “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats”. So much about people and countries comes through in a display of their food — the colors, recognizable brands (or lack of them), amount of processed vs. fresh food, the proportions of meat vs. grains vs. vegetables — I wonder what mine would look like, or if it was even possible to build one of these since there’s so much eating out.

  • ➟ Aonori, by Brief & Trunks — A brilliant Japanese comedy music video

    via youtube.com

    This starts well, and then you think maybe it’s going to be the same thing for four minutes, but they manage to build on the joke very nicely.

    You may have to enable YouTube annotations/closed-captioning to get the English subs.

  • ➟ Creation of an amazing TRON Legacy aerosol mural [time-lapse video]

  • ➟ This kid has mind-blowing Cirque du Soleil-type skills with a diabolo, but I’ll bet his grades are terrible

  • → Thought of You, a beautiful animated dance short by the guy who did Google’s Martha Graham logo


    This contemporary dance stuff can actually be beautiful! See the Making Of video through the link on Vimeo. (via yjsoon)

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  • ➟ How Good Is Hype Machine Radio? [AppAdvice]

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    via appadvice.com

    I don’t know if the app is worth its $2.99 (I guess if your 3G connection is good and you want their music on the go, it is), but I’m just getting started on using the Hype Machine as an aggregator of music sources instead of an MP3 search engine — imagine a Last.fm for little known music, streaming from a network of music blogs. Am currently listening through my desktop browser and if this quality keeps up, I’ll be a customer within the hour.

    It’s a situation ideally suited to success, actually. Music lovers who consider themselves informed, cutting-edge curators — a breed of digital vinyl collectors — who publish their opinions on well-trafficked blogs, are always going to be your best bet for radio that doesn’t suck.

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