Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Very scary javascript
Interesting use of dom elements that animate with javascript, warning this may scare the bee-jesus out of you.
Peek Inside the Lamborghini Factory
Photo essay: The Italian automaker founded in 1963 by feisty Ferrari hater Ferruccio Lamborghini built a long line of swoopy exotics that demanded passionate, dedicated drivers.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Today is the 29th anniversary of email
On August 30th, 1982, 29 years ago, 16-year old V. A. Shiva copyrighted “EMAIL” along with the GUI we still use today with the fields “To: From: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply, Reply All, Forward” and Email body and attachment.
The Life of Hurricane Irene from Caribbean to Canada
An animation of satellite observations from August 21 through August 29 showing the birth of Hurricane Irene in the Caribbean and her track over Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, the Bahamas, the U.S. East Coast and into Canada.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Back from Irene
Currently stranded in the Bronx, I live in dreaded Zone A in LIC but it seems like everything is OK, just waiting for all the trains to come back online. Our prayers to the families for those who were killed.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Say Something Nice
improveverywhere constructed a custom wooden lectern with a megaphone holster and an attached sign that read, “Say Something Nice.” The lectern was placed in public spaces around New York and then left alone. Heres what happened. if you don't smile once by the end you maybe a robot
Epic Time-Lapse of Lightning Storms Under the Milky Way
Time-lapse photographer Randy Halverson spent three months hunting thunderstorms at night in central South Dakota using a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 60D, and Canon T2i. Capturing both the storms and the Milky Way in the same shots proved to be a difficult task:
Photos Of The Damage Caused By The East Coast Earthquake
East coast earth quake pics. I was sitting here in my home office and thought a truck went by, I looked outside and saw a truck driving away and thought, thats strange, we never feel the trucks. Best comment on gothamist- williamsburg felt the earthquake two years ago.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
skrekkogle.com
skrekkogle.com is a studio that does what it very well pleases, experimenting with products and electronics and the like.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Water jetpack!
The JETLEV-FLYER employs a powerful 4-stroke engine and water nozzle reaction force to achieve stable, controlled flight.
superbad.com
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
facebook messenger
Facebook Messenger is a stand-alone mobile app that lets you message friends right on their phones.
Abbreviations – Stormtrooper Edition
Abbreviations are an inevitable part of being a web developer. HTML, CSS, HTTP, XML… the list goes on and on. Take the Abbreviations Quiz.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
12 Ways to Make Photographs That Are Guaranteed to Improve Your Portfolio
Scott Bourne has blog post of a dozen ways to make pictures that are guaranteed to improve your portfolio.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2011
The AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries is the most comprehensive annual survey of compensation data for the communication design profession in the United States.
Another Google +
The Google+ movie is years away. In the meantime, this song answers all your questions about what the heck it actually is.
Today's Levitation
Natsumi Hayashi has a great series of levitation photos on her blog, yowayowacamera.com. She explains the process here.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Double Exposure Photography
Double Exposure, or Multiple Exposure, is a photographic technique that combines 2 different images into a single image.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
High Speed Photos, Tokyo Trains
Tokyo based photographer Appuru Pai takes high speed photos with a slow shutter on Tokyo trains.
NYC Subway Graffiti In The Early 1970s
These photos were all taken in 1973 and 1974, documenting the graffiti-marked subway system of New York City.
Monday, August 8, 2011
A Day in California
Ryan Killackey's film using time lapse and tilt shift photography. A Day in California
Friday, August 5, 2011
Anne Hathaway as Catwoman
The Internet was blitzed early Friday morning with a new series of spy photographs taken at or perhaps just across the street from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania set of The Dark Knight Rises.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
MOVE by Rick Mereki
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage, all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
NYC 2nd ave subway construction worker
Gary, construction worker on the 2nd ave subway line sings during lunch hour.
Game of Thrones
Spoiler, Visual Effects created by BlueBolt for the first season of Game of Thrones.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Can You Spot the Humans?
3D animations are becoming so good, you won't be able to separate computer-generated people from actual humans.
Big Picture, South Korean deluge
After a month of heavy rain saturated mountainsides, a fresh deluge sent landslides sweeping into Seoul last week. @bigpicture was there.
A Pop-Up Guggenheim as Urban Laboratory
This week Guggenheim is opening a pop-up gathering space on a gritty, city-owned lot in the East Village that until a few weeks ago was “all rats and rubble,” as one Guggenheim official described it.
The killer wit of ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is well known for its scholarship, athletics and mythology, yet students might most appreciate this evidence of an irreverent sense of humor
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