Month: June 2009 (Page 2 of 2)

All things Alice (in Won­der­land) the first pub­lic­i­ty bar­rage is up and running.

pan and scan and zoom in on three views of the wonderland.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009–06-22-wonderland-art_N.htm

Char­ac­ter Stills
http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/movie-stills/gallery/1864/alice-in-wonderland-stills#photo0

Two char­ac­ter stills added.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56475

Anoth­er end of an era in pho­tog­ra­phy post. First the Polaroid and now
Kodachrome.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/23/kodachrome-finally‑t.html

A cou­ple of image/story makers:

Jens Claessens puts togeth­er the mate­ri­als that go into mak­ing an
illus­trat­ed story.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/23/kodachrome-finally‑t.html

Matthieu For­ni­chon does charm­ing and occa­sion­al­ly wry illustrations.
(Site in French — it does­n’t matter)
http://forichon.blogspot.com/

Irony from Glue Soci­ety, of a sort — but most­ly I like the picture.
(The Glue Soci­ety’s own web page is annoy­ing in the extreme.)
http://www.hifructose.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=56

11 Train Sta­tions — now gone. Fab­u­lous Amer­i­can Empire architecture.
http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/06/22/11-beautiful-train-stations-that-fell-to-the-wrecking-ball/

1 Space Port — we can only hope it meets the same fate as the above
train sta­tions — a lot more quick­ly. (Dang that’s ugly)
http://www.core77.com/blog/news/first_us_spaceport_going_up_13834.asp

In case of emer­gency — build a wi-fi sig­nal grab­ber with common
kitchen uten­sils. (You know you’re gonna need this when the zombies
come.)
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2009/06/ikea-strainer-wi-fi-antenna.html

I can’t believe I am link­ing to yet more fur­ni­ture that becomes a coffin.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/22/japanese-company-sells-cabinet-that-converts-into-a-coffin/

The hot item of the moment — the Gay Mar­riage Debate as a graph­ic — I
don’t think it’s a very good bit of graph­ic com­mu­ni­ca­tion but everyone
is  talk­ing about it so you may as well judge for yourself.
http://www.geocities.com/patrick_farley/gayMarriageChart-large.png

mean­while back at the ranch — there are things that want to be fed.
more on Thursday,

Most­ly art edition.

Pho­tog­ra­phy and Pho­tos of stuff:

a new favorite pho­tog­ra­ph­er. Trix­ie Bedlam
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trixiepix/

A sin­gle pho­to­graph and a short quote about the no pho­tos bs.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/19/rosie-hardy-photogra.html

Hope for all pho­tog­ra­phers plan­ning to attend the Olympic Games in
Van­cou­ver (not me)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/17/vancouver-cops-affir.html

It’s ‘only’ a mod­el. day’am — on all counts.
http://www.bikeexif.com/deubelhorner-bmw-sidecar

Two impor­tant Ars Tech­ni­ca arti­cles on the fate of the writ­ten word in
the elec­tron­ic age.

What does the release of the kin­dle source code real­ly mean: (not a whole lot)
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/amazon-code-release-irrelevant-kindle-is-still-closed.ars

What is up with the Google book project.
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/06/google-books-infused-with-new-embedding-browsing-features.ars

Cory Doc­torow explains why these are important.
http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=178058

More art. Gor­geous and some­times fright­en­ing images — homage to Where
the Wild Things Are.
http://www.terribleyelloweyes.com/

more on Monday.

With so many of my friends (and ene­mies?) mov­ing I thought I’d pass
along this help­ful link to low space required book shelves. Good
look­ing too.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/stackable_nesting_bookcase_where_were_you_for_my_last_three_moves_13781.asp

Some­body owes me a kitten.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/06/16/funny-pictures-fix-what-you-did/

Book lust.The Ancient book of Sex and Sci­ence.  Retro illustration
style, every one’s favorite top­ic. Check out the scans here.
(mod­er­ate­ly NSFW — art/illustrations no photos.)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/the-ancient-book-of.html
Then see more on the ama­zon page using Look Inside.
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Book-Science-Scott-Morse/dp/0977471543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245348899&sr=8–1

For­mer indus­tri­al site trans­formed into a park. Cool, but most­ly I’m
link­ing this for the pho­tographs. (there are links to NYC’s highline
project as well. If you’re inter­est­ed in urban land­scapes and reuse it
s a fas­ci­nat­ing project.)
http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/reclaimed-industrial-facilities-duisburg-nord/

You going to have to be a real man­ly man to sur­vive being on of the
first NYPD offi­cers assigned to one of these. (Whirr. Whirr. Whirr.)
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/nypd_green_13796.asp

A load­ing dock and 25 rent­ed box trucks. I love this as a way for
artists and design­ers who are shut out of the big boy shows to get an
audience.
http://www.core77.com/blog/events/neocon_2009_guerrilla_truck_show_at_fulton_market__13786.asp

Using RR right-of-way to build new elec­tric trans­mis­sion cor­ri­dors. A
trans­porta­tion and ener­gy pro­pos­al that makes way too much sense.
Some­one get the gov­’t to put a stop to this right now!
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/rail-wind/

How phan­tom traf­fic jams are cre­at­ed — with video from MIT.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/phantom-jams/

Phew — just bare­ly fin­ished this post in time. It’s still technically
morning :-)

For those of you fol­low­ing the Iran protests:

pre­serv­ing the infrastructure.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/twitter-reschedules.html

basic wartime jour­nal­ism pro­to­cols explained for twit­ter users and
blog read­ers. (Orig­i­nal site has been slash-dotted, excerpt at
boing-boing)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/cyberwar-guide-for‑i.html

call for hack­ing Iran­ian gov­’t sites (eth­i­cal­ly ques­tion­able to flat
out wrong IMO) Tons of good links in the wired article.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/activists-launch-hack-attacks-on-tehran-regime/

Today’s Design Links:

Love­ly retro adver­tis­ing for Coca-Cola
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/15/coca-cola-cupping-ma.html

Anoth­er drink relat­ed design. Per­fect for when the work­bench gets too
crowd­ed for your beer.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/kim_hyunbeens_drinklip_for_desks_with_little_real_estate_13775.asp

First link from the “real” world. La-z-boy goes green. (Dang that’s ugly)
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/green_furniture_award_goes_tothe_lazboy_13766.asp

Sec­ond link from the “real” world. Did GM kill the wrong mark?
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/general-motors‑4/

Adven­ture, Curios­i­ty, Time Wast­ing, and maybe Educational:

Just launched by Dylan Thuras and Joshua Foer. Atlas Obscu­ra is a
won­der cab­i­net on the inter­net. User gen­er­at­ed con­tent that is worth
seeing.(Occasional serv­er slow-downs. Warn­ing colos­sal time sink.)
http://atlasobscura.com/

Dylan Thuras pre­vi­ous project, Curi­ous Expe­di­tions is equal­ly fascinating
http://curiousexpeditions.org/

Four for Tech-Geek crowd:

Carl Lin­naeus invent­ed the index card. It’s impor­tant, really.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090616080137.htm

Oba­ma is work­ing to fix Read ID but not the way it should be fixed.
(By trash­ing the idea altogether)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/obama-administration-aims-to-fix-broken-real-id-act.ars

Experts call for Google to force use of https rather than http at all
times for it’s cloud apps. Oops, I nev­er remem­ber to force https when
I’m on-line at Starbucks.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/google_ssl/

Tablet net­book? I leave it to the net­book fans to dis­sect and debate.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/16/asus-t91-tablet-netbook-to-hit-us-retailers-soon/

Video Links:

Tom Brokaw from Comdex 1994. Weird — they don’t get much wrong.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67945/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-tom-brokaws-early-reports-about-the-internet

I love post-it notes. I love stop-motion ani­ma­tion. Swoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalfloss.com%2Fblogs%2Farchives%2F26442&feature=player_embedded

Mak­ing of video as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJYvaCCB3c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalfloss.com%2Fblogs%2Farchives%2F26442&feature=player_embedded

I haven’t had time to watch all of this yet. But ‑OMG- all that
Bol­ly­wood good­ness in one place!
http://www.motherjones.com/riff/2009/06/video-bollywood-beginners

More on Thursday,

Inter­est­ing Things Links:

More women who like being on the road, recre­at­ing an his­toric road
trip. It’s a bit slick but an inter­est­ing attempt.
http://aliceramsey.org/

New research on the math­e­mat­ics behind the “social web” and tagging:
(esp for info geeks)
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/06/tagging.ars

A train­able advice engine.
http://www.hunch.com/tour/
Write up on what, why, and who here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/15/hunch-machine-learni.html

Play with it an let me know what you think.

Art and Design Links:

Lego art:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/11/lego-voyage-dans-la.html

A lit­tle creepy, very dreamy:
http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/123617216/venusflytrap-technohell

Tech  and Gad­get Links:

New faster SD cards for high resolution/high speed shoot­ing. (Prob­a­bly
good for the new video cam­eras.) Not here in the US yet. I’ll put them
on the watch­list and let you all know when I see them.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/15/panasonic-announces-class-10-sdhc-cards/

The killer phone app Loy­al­ty card hold­er. I have a key chain weighed
down with the damn things. Too bad it does­n’t real­ly work. (See
comments)
http://consumerist.com/5278161/

WTF Links:

There’s an expla­na­tion in the com­ments — just ignore it.
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011366.html#011366

NB for the next cou­ple of months there will be morn­ing link­age Monday,
Tues­day, Thurs­day, and Fri­day. Wednes­day a, if it hap­pens at all, will
be afternoons.

It’s nice to be back wast­ing y’al­l’s time.