8x8 | Kris Lane

Michael Johansson

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:45:42 +1200

Michael Johansson

one more studio | Paris

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:45:42 +1200

one more studio | Paris

Animal Kingdom Jackie Weaver++

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:24:00 +1200

Animal Kingdom

Jackie Weaver++

Things that make me irrationally happy #005

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:13:00 +1200

Sugardough, Lygon St, Melbourne

"Leicas are Flavor Flav clocks for photo nerds."

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:28:40 +1200

“Leicas are Flavor Flav clocks for photo nerds.”

- Twitter / Clayton Cubitt

I quite like faebric

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:40:00 +1200

I quite like faebric

"The Internet is causing mass homogenization of human identity, making us all look the same."

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:27:00 +1200

“The Internet is causing mass homogenization of human identity, making us all look the same.”

- Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Our Digital Crisis

Harris’ essay deserves a revisit every couple of months.

Shinya Kimura, a man who makes amazing custom motorcycles.

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:09:00 +1200

Shinya Kimura, a man who makes amazing custom motorcycles.

!!! - AM/FM

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:46:46 +1200

!!! - AM/FM

"Messages are not only anonymous but ephemeral, because 4chan has no long-term archives: old message..."

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:50:39 +1200

“Messages are not only anonymous but ephemeral, because 4chan has no long-term archives: old message threads are automatically deleted when new ones need the room. This mechanism was originally meant to save storage costs, but as Poole notes, “it’s both practical and philosophical.” Among other things, it challenges the idea that digital identity should follow you across time.”

- Technology Review: Radical Opacity

I’m over permanent storage of data, you don’t need to fastidiously document every minutia of your life.

B.A. thesis project of Stephan Thiel at the Interfacedesign...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:03:34 +1200

B.A. thesis project of Stephan Thiel at the Interfacedesign program of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Understanding Shakespeare is an attempt to create a new visual understanding of the work by analysing most frequently used words for each character. Using Processing, a scene is represented by a block of text and scaled relatively according to its number of words. Characters are ordered by appearance from left to right throughout the play. The major character’s speeches are highlighted to illustrate their amounts of spoken words as compared to the rest of the play.

Understanding Shakespeare / Prints

Ben Jennings | Neo-Luddism

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:13:02 +1200

Ben Jennings | Neo-Luddism

A music blog for people who don’t have time for music...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:55:00 +1200

A music blog for people who don’t have time for music blogs.

Thanks Tim

"Everything we put on the Web is both ephemeral and archival — ephemeral in the sense that so much of..."

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:07:00 +1200

“Everything we put on the Web is both ephemeral and archival — ephemeral in the sense that so much of what we post is only fleetingly relevant, archival in the sense that the things we post tend to stay where we put them so we can find them years later.”

- Scott Rosenberg: Why trust Facebook with the future’s past?

He goes on to compare the way that older sites - like Flickr - expose an archive, whereas newer ones - like Facebook - don’t, despite the fact that some of the promotional commentary for the Places feature has been about looking back in twenty years. In other words: “Facebook could be such a repository today, if it actually cared about history. It has given no evidence of such concern.”

/via blech/culled

Sitting through the new Air New Zealand Safety video twice...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:45:00 +1200

Sitting through the new Air New Zealand Safety video twice today, I realised that:

a. i don’t get rugby puns
b. i dislike korus in type treatments
c. nanas streaking make everyone laugh
d. the All Blacks are everywhere
e. still not sure about the new Trelise Cooper uniforms

plus the video feels longer than the painted people version to me

"Well, here’s an even more subversive thought: are the rules of arithmetic, the basic logical..."

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:15:30 +1200

“Well, here’s an even more subversive thought: are the rules of arithmetic, the basic logical premises underlying things like long division, unsound? Implausible, you might think. After all, human error aside, our number system delivers pretty reliable results. Yet the closer mathematicians peer beneath the hood of arithmetic, the more they are becoming convinced that something about numbers doesn’t quite add up. The motor might be still running, but some essential parts seem to be missing — and we’re not sure where to find the spares.”

- To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic

Ratatat - Drugs The video is trés rad, and the track is amping...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:52:00 +1200

Ratatat - Drugs

The video is trés rad, and the track is amping too

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Thee Psychick Bible Throbbing Gristle...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:51:52 +1200

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Thee Psychick Bible

Throbbing Gristle makes me happy

Things that make me bemused #002

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:56:10 +1200

Youtube comments

FUCK YOUTUBE”S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS THAT ARE ON BEFORE THE VIDEOS. FUCK THE CORPORATIONS THAT OWN THEM AND FUCK THE ASSHOLE THAT DECIDED THAT WE DONT SEE ENOUGH COMMERCIALS ON TV AND WE NEED IT FOR YOUTUBE A WELL.

YoutubeVEVO make people happy

seophoria

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:42:57 +1200

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the satisfaction of lists, a series of bullet points being fired into the air as if to celebrate victory against the complexity of a universe that bombards us with five exabytes of data that would paralyze us if we didn’t connect random dots into constellations of dippers, hunters, and sexy ways to please your man.