Another Flickr Portfolio Viewer
Host.123Flickr is a very nice tool that will generate a customized portfolio site from your personal Flickr feed; here's mine.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
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Great Music Video
Check out this super clever little art/music video. The artist created a mosaic of video frames and has the same performer in each frame performing a choreographed dance together with themselves. Hard to explain...but fun to watch.
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Dr. Bronner’s Magic (Crazy) Soap
For anyone who's looked closely at the labels on his eponymous soap, it won't come as much of a surprise that Dr. Bronner was briefly committed to a mental institution. A new documentary explores the story behind the soap. (h/t VSL)
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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Super addictive little game
Desktop Tower Defense is the most addictive computer game I've played since I discovered Command and Conquer my freshman year of college (h/t kottke).
Saturday, June 23, 2007
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Microsoft Surface Parody Video
"One day your computer will be a big-ass table." Check out this great parody video; go here to see the original ad from Microsoft.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
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Bloomberg is no longer a Republican
Oh, joy. New York City no longer has to live with the shame of having a Republican mayor, as Bloomberg officially aligns his party affiliation with his actual politics.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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Trailer for P.T. Anderson's new film "There Will Be Blood"
Here's the first trailer for P.T. Anderson's new film, "There Will Be Blood." The movie, based on the Upton Sinclair story of the same name, is due in theaters around Thanksgiving.
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Meet Edward Tufte
If you don't already know who Edward Tufte is, here's a great little article from New York Magazine about this icon of information design.
Friday, June 15, 2007
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Radiohead's OK Computer is 10 years old
Radiohead's album OK Computer was released on June 15th, 1997. Here's the video for "Paranoid Android."
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Songs of the Summer
WNYC profiles this year's contenders for "Song of the Summer." You can watch the video for each song; my favorite has got to be Brooklyn native Lil Mama's jam, "Lip Gloss." Lil Mama's lip gloss is both cool and poppin'. As a bonus, who could forget this one from the summer of 1992? "Jump" by Kris Kross
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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Michael Cera's Online Video Series
Michael Cera has "this feeling that there's this whole undiscovered, untapped market of shows that aren't about forensic scientists or police officers or school teachers or some such shit." And the former "Arrested Development" co-star, and "Superbad" lead, is doing something about it. Cera and his friend Clark Duke are producing this very funny and very dry online mockumentary series about the duo trying to sell a tv show.
Monday, June 04, 2007
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The Neuron as a Model for New Media Communication
I've had a particular interest in how the functions of our neurological system provide an apt metaphor for how we share information in through the web. Here's an oversimplified explanation of how neurons are like people connected to the internet.
The role of Social Network Sites in the realization of a Functional Collective Conscious
How will it be possible to organize every bit of information in a way that will be personally relevant to each individual?
Private Social Experiences in Public Places, or What Facebook can learn from the local pub
Cultivating personal relationships is a private experience, but that experience takes place in a public place - the social networking site. What kinds of real world environments overcome this paradox successfully?
Other Essays...
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