Chris wrote : “The Final Cult movie posters created for local cinema alt film night.” See the whole film posters set design by Chris Thornley. Visit his official website. He’s also featured on Threadless and OMG Posters!
“Vik Muniz (born 1961) is a Brazilian born, New York based artist who experiments with media. […] In his picture of Sigmund Freud, he uses chocolate to render the image. For his Sugar Children series, Muniz went to a sugar plantation in St. Kitts to photograph children of laborers who work there. After he returned to New York, he bought some black paper and several kinds of sugar, and copied the snapshots of the children by layering the different types of sugar on the paper and photographing it. He made the images from the sugar at the plantation.” (Wikipedia)
Watch a TEDTalk video by Vik Muniz
Two ways to post directly from an RSS feed reader (Google Reader) to a Tumblr account:
1) From Userscript.org : A script allowing you to post with or without a form (using a keyboard shortcut). This must be the fastest way to dump something on a Tumblr account.
2) On August 12th, 2009 Google Reader added a feature enabling (extra geeky) users to customize the “Send to” function:
“We’ve made it easier to share posts you like to Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, and more, with our new “Send to” feature.[…] Just head over to the settings page, and enable the services you want to use. If your favorite service isn’t listed (and you’re feeling extra geeky), you can create your own “Send to” link with a URL template.”
I’m not using those myself for a simple reason: most of the things I found through my RSS feeds have already been reblogged and re-reblogged: original sources are missing and a little bit a research is necessary in order to be able to publish a post with adequate references.
For example, one may stumble upon this interesting “evolution of storage” infographic while browsing Boing Boing’s RSS feed. The name of the author is not mentioned in the Boing Boing post. It turns out that it was reblogged from Geekologie (still no mention of the original author) who reblogged it from Gizmodo. Gizmodo was kind enough to provide a working link to the Flickr photostream of Curtiss Spontelli, original creator of the infographic (who might have borrowed crucial elements from this infographic ad by Mozy). Only then it’s possible to create a post with adequate references. No keyboard shortcut in the world can solve this problem.
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Original story by Adam Bertocci. Follow the link to read the whole five acts of The most excellent comedie and tragical romance of Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. This shakespearean adaptation (or “literary mashup” as the Wall Street Journal puts it) of the Coen Brothers’ movie went viral in just a few days. Read the story here.
| Download any Youtube movies, clips or videos directly from your Chromium Browser [works with FireFox, Safari and Opera as well]. It will Instantly get the link from the webpage even if it’s not yet finished loading. No Website or software is needed. |
The most important part about this hack is the possibility to download Flash and MP4 (HQ, 720p and 1080p) videos using simple dedicated bookmarklets (one for each format). I’m done with Zamzar.
Learn more about YouTube playback formats.
9 0 0 0 photostream on Flickr: “You embrace postmodernism to avoid having an original thought”
| WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes’ systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber — available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet — to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter. |
More abour the SkyGrabber software here. Read a recent New Yorker article about “The Predator War” and “the risks of the C.I.A.’s covert drone program” by Jane Mayer (Oct. 26, 2009).
See the whole “web services covers therapy” set
Stéphane Massa-Bidal is “an illustrator and webdesigner”. See his portofolio on the Behance Network. Read his blog. He also has a page within the Cargo Collective (I wrote about the Cargo plateform before). You can buy some of his stuff over at Zazzle.
He writes about his “retrofuturs” concept and his artistic practice :
“My global concept is called “Retrofuturs”: mix the past, the present, the future and shake it! Before this concept has been contextualized with music (personal compilations with golden oldies, pop, electronic music etc…) with objects (lamps with retrofuturs graphics) and comics for my co-workers (it may be this which triggered the graphic concept). I don’t have training in graphics but have read extensively. It began in November 2008 during my daily time of the train. I started by collage and have evolved to a minimalist approach in information design. In this context, I work with a simple background and a helvetica new font (maybe I am influenced by that kind of graphic work). The other elements of my toolbox are repetition, dots and colors. The last two are very interesting in representing time in the poster space.” (read more).
Artist’s statement: “This work is about simulation. Creating a clone or a copy of the “real” on paper. It is not a fake, it takes the place of the “real” for a moment, whilst looking at the image. The aim is to create likenesses of icons, where in the image, the simulations of icons, threatens the difference between “true” and “false,” between “real” and “imaginary”. The “real” subject becomes not necessary. The photographic image or the icon is more important and more seductive. It doesn’t matter to the viewer if the portrayal is not the “real”—as long as it looks like him or her—it creates a temporary confusion. This is the confusion the work searches to create. We think we are looking at something real, but we’re not. They are false images of look-alikes of the real thing.” (Read more)
“There is a trend lately to design retro, penguin-book style covers and posters for popular movies and contemporary video games. Here’s my take on my favorite car chase movie, Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen.”
About Wayne Dahlberg: visit Dahlberg design home page.
