XLR8R just put up a really cool video where they followed around Seattle producers Dave Pezzner (a.k.a. Pezzner) and Jeff McIlwain (a.k.a. Lusine) to record a track using mainly field recordings. They take a light-rail train to the Seattle waterfront and record what they find — including the bells of the train, a weird Chinese […]
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21
Oct
Bells, ripples, squawking birds and whining violins unite
20
Oct
Some folks seem pretty inspired to do great things. Others don’t seem to be setting the bar too high.
The Before I Die I Want To… project comes from the brains of Nicole Kenney (Brooklyn, NY) and KS Rives (Chicago, IL). Not sure how long the duo has been working on this project, but it seems like they’ve been at it for a while—considering all the places they’ve hit up so far. I’d say […]
15
Oct
Every night throughout the world hundreds of people dream about this face
The story goes…In January 2006 in New York the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life. […]
I’ve got a personal infatuation for fonts and letters. It comes from a fan-boy point of view, not from a designer one. I just discovered the letterPLAYGROUD site, which is run by artist, illustrator and designer Nate Williams, aka Alexander Blue. Dude has worked extensively in various facets of the illustration industry with a wide […]
7
Sep
I was apparently murdered and thrown into a sewer...
It works much the same way that Googling your name in quotes does. Recently on display at the MIT museum, Personas finds all the fun facts about everyone sharing your most awesome name, compiling the data into an easy to read, color-coded chart that features different categories. I actually saw a few facts about myself […]
Keeping with the lets waste some time on Friday theme, here’s a great music and spoken word project by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls. You know how YouTube doesn’t stop you from playing more than one video at a time? Well, Darren Solomon took that idea and ran with it. It was developed by […]
31
Aug
Uncomfortable mentions of sex, a high level of embarrassing anecdotes about childhood behavior and plenty of judgmental comments...what are moms for?
Three things that are guaranteed to be funny are monkeys doing human things, babies doing grown-up things and parents and grandparents doing technological things. This entry isn’t about Lancelot Link DVD box-sets or the E*TRADE baby, but about our lovable, fumbling elders. Strap a Wiimote to your mom’s wrist and watch hilarity ensue. Give Nana […]
26
Aug
Predicting the end of an industry in 1981
Hard to imagine this is from 1981. David Cole of the San Francisco Examiner must feel like Nostradamus when watching this on his iPhone, patiently waiting in line to pick up his unemployment check. “We’re not in it to make money – we’re probably not going to lose a lot, but we aren’t going to […]
