StumbleAudio – Indie Music Fiends Rejoice!
July 21, 2008
“Alright-That’s It-I’m Done, OK? I’m Done.”
StumbleAudio is a StumbleUpon for indie music. A nice and pretty website to listen and discover cool indie music. It is exclusively for indie music and has over 2 million songs (from more than 120.000 artists) in its database.
The ideas behind StumbleAudio is to help listeners find the indie music they are likely to enjoy. Listeners are first asked to name one of their favorite artists or bands. Then it creates a new indie radio station comprising of similar indie artists.
“OK, I’ll Do It, But Then I’m Leaving OK?”
A stunning new film shot at the NASA laboratory at UC Berkeley reveals the secret lives of magnetic fields as they morph and twist in space – but are we observing a scientific experiment, the universe in flux or a documentary of a fictional world?
Novlet – Who’s Ready To Collaborate?
July 13, 2008
“One More Time, I Swear To God Just One More Time.”
Novlet is a web application designed to support collaborative writing of non-linear stories in any language. With Novlet you will be able to read stories written by other users, create your own ones, and choose the plot you like most from several alternatives.
Novlet stories are divided in passages, text sections usually made of a few paragraphs: users can continue stories or add alternative storylines by creating their passages after existing ones. The only limit is your fantasy.
“If You Really Can’t See It, Then I Guess You Can Go Now.”
These are some of the most stunning pictures that I have ever seen. That’s all that I really want to say about these amazing photographs.
Guinea-Bissau
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The rivers of this small country in West Africa, once known for its main economic activity – the slave trade – wash into the Atlantic Ocean, creating complex patterns of swirling silt below the surface of the shallow water.
The Porn Link Galaxy – Well Would You Look At That
July 7, 2008
“It’s Over OK? I’m Done.”
Here is an interesting endeavor: The WOT porn crawler. The “porn crawler” (elegantly titled in my opinion) was created to find the relationships and interconnectedness between pornography websites. This image displays the magnitude of links from one porn site to others. I’m really not sure how much time or effort was devoted to this project, but the resulting images are actually really cool. They are like recently discover deep see jellyfish that evoke wonderment in the hearts of children. Too far? Maybe? More pictures after the jump.
SwarmSketch – “One Line At A Time”
July 3, 2008
“Cause Honey Your Murdering Me.”
SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. A new sketch begins after one week, or after the previous sketch reaches one thousand lines, whichever comes first.
Each user can contribute a small amount of line per visit, then they are given the opportunity to vote on the opacity of lines submitted by other users. By voting, users moderate the input of other users, judging the quality of each line. The darkness of each line is the average of all its previous votes.
SwarmSketch.com
Japanese Horror Girls – WARNING: Posible Bad Call
July 3, 2008
Japanese CG Artist Yoshitaka Kawakami series of Japanese Horror girls spans several years and it, to tell you the god’s honest truth, leaves me wanting to see more of it. Sick and beautiful all at the same time. Click on to see more.
“If it doesn’t get better, I don’t want it”
In the face of bittorent, blah, blah, people have overlooked the amount of free, good, music that’s out there. Here is a list of sites that can help you chip away at the thousands of free mp3’s out there. From individual tracks to full albums, these are good places to start.
Cat Power – The Black Sessions (Mp3’s)
July 1, 2008
“When You Can Finally See What I’m Saying…”
The Union Jack and the French Tricolour flutter above the lines of troops marching through Kinghtsbridge during the World War One victory parade in 1919.
Seeing the world captured in color is something most of us take for granted.
But at the start of the 20th century, the art of photography was rather more limited – to black and white images, with various shades of grey in between.
It was not until 1907 that autochrome – the process through which colour photographs were first produced – was invented in Paris.
“If You Try It And You Don’t Like It, You Never Have To Do It Again.”
The diatom Campylodiscus noricus, seen here magnified 400 times, inhabits fresh water.
Microscopic Photography has always fascinated me. Any time that art and science collide it is an amazing expression of the human mind. This kind of photography is immediately identifiable by it’s alien lifeforms and color schemes rarely witnessed anywhere else. The Chartreuse species of diatom was named after the liquor of the same name because of the unique color. I have been seeing a lot more of these photo’s around recently and I always like to put them up here. Enjoy!
“Ms. Duennas, Welcome To The Show.”
Before pencils, Maestre was originally building with nails and a liquid rubber-type glue. She started to worry about inhaling all the toxic fumes, however, and began to experiment with different techniques until she settled on beading. Her method of choice? The peyote stitch.
The History Of The Color Wheel – Lets Give It A Shot
May 24, 2008
“After All This, When It’s All Done…We Still Got Each Other. We Have That Now.”
The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables and charts, to triangles and and wheels the history.
The Polaroid Kidd – Ridin’ Dirty Face
April 16, 2008
“Her Sweet Perfume’s All Over Me.”
Mike Brodie aka “The Polaroid Kidd” is a somewhat accidental documentary photographer. By photographing his friends, their homes, and lifestyles, Brodie has captured a marginalized segment of the American population that’s not so prevalent in main stream society. His haunting photos of hobos, punks, and squatters criss-crossing the country in boxcars are reminiscent of Horace Bristol’s Grapes of Wrath era pictures that captured migrant workers on their way to California ….except now with facial tattoos. They’re truly amazing.
HDR Portrait Photgraphy – Dense & Lovely
April 14, 2008
“I Honestly Don’t Need This.”
HDR Photography is a technique that, as the digital age advances forward, gives us an idea of what’s to come. So, that being said, I love it. I just think it’s cool. Bottom Line. This is the first time I have seen this technique used for portraits so I thought that I would share it all with you.
The Japanese School Uniform – From Tradition To Perverts
April 13, 2008
“Could It Just Be That I Am Unlovable?”
The U.K., Malaysia and Ireland have nice school uniforms, but how come Japanese school attire seemingly takes it to another level, leaving the students looking like little sailors and marching band leaders? Having worked as a public school English teacher in rural Fukushima and downtown Tokyo, I’ve been amazed by the variety of uniforms as well as the ways students customize them as far as they are allowed. PingMag shows you interesting details in fashion and the social performance that accompany this apparel to a point where the traditional Japanese school uniform has developed beyond the schoolyard and into pop culture.
Winter Trees – Have You Ever Looked Closely?
April 13, 2008
“I Promise That I Can Fix This.”
Svilen Dimchevski sees the beautiful in the ordinary. Have you ever look at a window and seen a pattern in the glare? Or observed the beauty of the seemingly random chaos of a field of grass. In his work Winter Trees, Svilen asks the observer to meditate of the ordinary, and interpret from within. In this instance he uses the skin of a peeled tangerine.
“One Day I’ll Make Up For All Of This.”
Mixed media master Mark Khaisman, Moscow educate artist and architect, has done it again. With his use of Plexiglas, brown packing tape and suffused light, he creates works that evoke a fragmented, sepia toned photograph aesthetic. The denizens of his world range from anonymous Film Noir characters to classic Greek sculptures to white girls throwing up gang signs. God I would love to live there…
Hyper Realistic Art – Hyper-Cool, Or Hyper-Creepy?
March 19, 2008
I am going to have to go with hyper-awesome. By now I am sure a lot of us have seen the intense sculptures made by Ron Mueck. Absurdly large and at times equally as disturbing, his work seems to aim for the gut as much as the mind.
Floral Radiographs – The Secret Garden
March 18, 2008
Over forty years of experimentation with this unusual art form has led to its present high degree of excellence. Floral radiographs literally provide one with a third eye with which to see and appreciate the beauty in the secret garden of flowers. The earliest floral radiographs were created over 70 years ago, and today there are only a few radiographic artists in the world.
