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You are now entering the time zone
If you make the short journey from Tonga to Samoa, you arrive at Samoa before you had left Tonga. Time is complicated. Good thing we have the BBC. (Flash Required)
Perfect Limitations
Constraints are often better and more interesting than unlimited resources. We see this all the time in our design process. Things that start off as restrictions end up defining projects and becoming the basis for ideas we never would have had otherwise. The video below illustrates this in such a touching way, and the production [...]
The Decisive Moment
“There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment” —Henri Cartier-Bresson Apparently the decisive moment even applies to shuttin’ off the TeeVee. I really like the photographs in Stephan Tillmans’ Luminant Point Arrays project. He captures these beautiful minimal images that I’m sure I’ve seen a million times without ever thinking [...]
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Nick Cave, a New Orleans-style marching band, Soundsuit performances by Cornish College of the Arts, DJ Riz, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and about fifty other cool things this Friday at SAM Remix. It is sold out, but the first 50 in masks get in free.
1970s iPad
Stereo equipment was the best in the 70s. It was big, heavy, and covered in wood grain. When I need a piece of stereo equipment I go to the thrift stores and buy the heaviest thing I can find. Hopefully it’s a Marantz and covered in luscious wood texture. When I first got the iPad [...]
CGI Empire
Boardwalk Empire is a great show. The writing, acting, and direction are all superb. I love almost anything (Michael Bay exception applies) with Steve Buscemi. What I didn’t fully appreciate until I saw the following video is that the CGI is just as perfectly seamless as everything else. Brainstorm Digital knows their stuff: And as [...]
ENTER THE VOID
This is my favorite film title sequence it recent memory. I liked the movie, but I might not have been open to the dark and uncomfortable places the film went if not for this opening sequence. It is perfectly abrasive. It does what a great title sequence should do, it sends clear signals without revealing [...]
This Renoir says, “The Packers are goin’ down!”
Apparently, our museums have a gambling problem. For the second year in a row, two rival art museums have conjured up the year’s most entertaining Super Bowl bet. From ArtInfo: The Carnegie Museum of Art has wagered Pierre Renoir’s playful, fleshy Bathers with a Crab on a Pittsburgh Steelers victory. The Milwaukee Art Museum has [...]
Piezo Pad Power
If cool motion graphics could generate power, this video could power a mid-sized American city. Enjoy. NY Times – Turbine-Free Wind Power from Antfood on Vimeo.
Just the Fax, Ma’am
Our December was busy busy busy. Of course it was, holidays and all. We did a lot of work too. And we paddled 35 miles through Everglades National Park. Quite the ending to 2010. One thing I did in December was enroll Blank Space in the Apple iOS Developer Program. The process went smooth as [...]