Found Objects

I hadn’t linked Cat and Girl for a while, but...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:47:38 +0100

I hadn’t linked Cat and Girl for a while, but Dorothy’s take on the reactions to Michael Jackson’s death is spot on. (via The Null Device)

Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization (via CDM):...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:11:17 +0100

Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization (via CDM): This is just an incredible presentation. Camera movement is one of the things that sets apart low budget from ‘professional’ filmmaking and it’s good to see the potential for yet another gap narrowing. Indiependents sometimes waste so much time and resources on it, it’ll be nice to let computers handle it so we can do some actual filmmaking.

The Astounding World of the Future!

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:29:00 +0100

The Astounding World of the Future!

Atlas Obscura: Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:24:51 +0100

Atlas Obscura: Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world

Auto. Sueño y Materia - Cars and landscapes, an exhibition at...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:45:08 +0100

Auto. Sueño y Materia - Cars and landscapes, an exhibition at the Laboral Centro in Gijon, Spain, looks very interesting. Even though automobiles are pretty ubiquous still, exhibitions like this make me feel the car is already a 20th century anachronism…

China blocks Hummer takeover, because of the environment.

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:35:28 +0100

China blocks Hummer takeover, because of the environment.: That’s right, not even China wants...

I guess this is Being A Man Sunday. Here’s a japanese...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:27:15 +0100

I guess this is Being A Man Sunday. Here’s a japanese website with How-to videos on useful topics such as tying a necktie, doing some ironing, shining shoes or entertaining guests with magic tricks. I’m ashamed to admit I’m still mastering the T-shirt-Do. (via A Continuous Lean)

Five classic cocktails every man should know

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:18:39 +0100

Five classic cocktails every man should know: So… what’s in a Martini after all?

The trailer for Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood. Put...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:03:00 +0100

The trailer for Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood. Put simply, the best Shakespeare film adaptation (since it’s an adaptation of MacBeth), and high on my Best Movie Ever shortlist. No cinematic moment gives me the goosebumps as much as that ending. Makes Arthur Penn, the guy who shot that ending to Bonnie and Clyde, look like a wuss.

Dial Hard: So funny. Jonathan Glazer did a few Stella adverts, I...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:27:20 +0100

Dial Hard: So funny. Jonathan Glazer did a few Stella adverts, I wonder if this is one of those.

The rather interesting blog The Map Scroll has a post on Why...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:28:00 +0100

The rather interesting blog The Map Scroll has a post on Why We’re Fucked, that is, the world’s humungously uneven Balances of Trade.

You already know the United States owes a lot, China is owed a lot, however the true story lies here, in a per-capita account balance map. Americans and Australians, still not surprisingly, consume a real lot more than they can afford, but who else? Iceland, also not surprisingly is a black hole of deficit, but then come Greece, Spain and good old Portugal. Whaa? Us Portuguese spending far more than we can? No way, I’m sure we earned all those German automobiles with hard labour!

Another useless trick

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:35:00 +0100

On with the Processing saga. One of the things I’m interested is in live video manipulation...

Your logo makes me barf

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:55:14 +0100

Your logo makes me barf: A weblog about f-ugly graphic design. Mild when compared with a walk...

Object oriented

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:49:00 +0100

During the last couple of weeks I’ve been learning Processing, another tool in my...

Alan Clarke’s Olympic posters proposals. It’s funny...

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:22:00 +0100

Alan Clarke’s Olympic posters proposals. It’s funny people (including me) find them reminiscent of Otl Aicher’s Munich 72 posters, even though we find they were actually quite different when we actually look at them. Given the strangeness of the 2012 games’ logo, perhaps Aicher’s psychedelia would be a more fitting choice.

37 Data Visualization Blogs

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:52:04 +0100

37 Data Visualization Blogs: This list will be very useful to me, as I’m working in a...

Xkcd - Mission to Culture. I can definitely relate to feeling...

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:57:33 +0100

Xkcd - Mission to Culture. I can definitely relate to feeling embarrassed while trying to show uncooperative people something new, but I also believe culture is something you consume and doesn’t necessarily make you a better person, so I have a hard time coping with some people’s smugness.

Alex Cornell’s design proposals for a hypothetical Wes...

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:53:21 +0100

Alex Cornell’s design proposals for a hypothetical Wes Anderson Film Festival. Style emulation isn’t normally my cup of tea, and the visual aesthetics of Wes Anderson’s films isn’t that hard to copy (think bold Futura, a mix of complementary pastel colors, and orthogonal framing - which Cornell didn’t even use). But still there’s something absolutely compelling about this series. (via Johanna Reed)

Entre uma rocha e um sítio duro

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:26:51 +0100

Entre uma rocha e um sítio duro: N’o Procrastinador Profissional lanço-me contra o fenómeno do...

"STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BREED"

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:14:09 +0100

“STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BREED” - Jenny Holzer’s Twitter account. More.