Yearly Archives: 2009

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 … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 23)”

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 … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 19)”

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 … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 18)”

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: … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 16)”

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 … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jun 15)”