May 2013
1 post
March 2013
4 posts
Living With Less. A Lot Less. →
nytimes.com
Graham Hill trades in a life of luxury for a 420 square-foot studio apartment with almost nothing in it — and is happier as a result:
Somehow this stuff ended up running my life, or a lot of it; the things I consumed ended up consuming me.
Or, as Tyler Durden once put it:
The things you own, end up owning you.
prosthetic knowledge: Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition →
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Brilliant father hacks Donkey Kong NES cart so daughter can play as Peach - video playthrough embedded below:
My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together. Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario….
dad of the year!
February 2013
6 posts
The Perfect Definition of This Goddamn Digital Life
Brazilian illustrator Felipe Luchi made this exquisite illustration for Go Outside Magazine. It’s the perfect definition of this digital life.
We are prisoners of our phones and tablets and all our digital crap.
January 2013
10 posts
“One of the problems with distributing anything these days is that there are a lot of people involved who want do keep the consumer from getting too much too quick. This isn’t a movie that’s going to go play theaters for weeks on end. It’s the type of movie I would have gone to as a kid with a one-hitter in my pocket. So let’s just get it out there quick.”
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Dave Grohl
The Foo Fighters frontman is taking control of changing distribution models for his documentary, Sound City, premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
(via NY Times)
2013 the year of getting it out there…
Watch This: TOY STORY, Filmed with Real Live Toys! →
gizmodo.com
My goodness, this is a thing of wonder and whimsy and a buttload of perseverance. The Live Action Toy Story Project, is finally completed.
Pixar approved :)
21 Social Media Predictions for 2013 From the Pros
Are you wondering what 2013 might look like for social media marketing?
If the changes seen in 2012 are an indicator, there will be a lot more change in 2013.
To get a grip on what the near future may look like, we tapped the knowledge of 21 social media pros.
Here’s what they had to say.
And if you’re curious, here were the 2012 predictions.
December 2012
4 posts
HitRECord Tumblr: Scene From a Sitcom →
hitrecord.tumblr.com
Text by Day Glo
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INT. APARTMENT
STEVE sits at a table, eating soup. He is completely absorbed in this activity.
The door to the apartment opens. SIMON enters.
The audience go wild.
Simon tries to deliver his line, but the audience continue to applaud and cheer.
Both actors stay…
Sad, but true. Cue the laugh track.
August 2012
2 posts
June 2012
10 posts
Carnegie Medal: Patrick Ness book A Monster Calls scoops double honours
Patrick Ness’s novel A Monster Calls has won both the prestigious Carnegie Medal and its sister prize for illustration for the first time in the awards’ history.
A Monster Calls tells the story of a boy coming to terms with his mother’s battle against cancer.
Ness described the win as “extremely humbling - and a little unnerving”.
For the first time, the same book won the Kate Greenaway Medal for book illustration, with Jim Kay picking up the prize at a ceremony at the Barbican in London on Thursday.
Need to look into this book.
2012 Vimeo Awards: category winners
2012 Vimeo Awards: category winners
The complete list of category winners runs like this:
- Action Sports: Dark Side of the Lens by Astray Films
- Advertising: K-Swiss Kenny Powers - MFCEO by Caviar
- Animation: Umbra by Malcolm Sutherland
- Captured: Sweatshoppe Video Painting Europe by Sweatshoppe
- Documentary: Amar (All Great Achievements Require Time) by Pilgrim Films
- Experimental: Prie Dieu by Cokau
- Fashion: Skirt by Academy Plus (A+)
- Lyrical: Symmetry by Everynone
- Motion Graphics: A History of the Title Sequence by Jurjen Versteeg
- Music Video: Manchester Orchestra: Simple Math by Daniels
- Narrative: BLINKY™ by Ruairi Robinson
- Series: Often Awesome The Series by All Aces Media
- Remix: Rear Window Timelapse by Jeff Desom
2012 Vimeo Awards also included three honorary awards:
- The Honorary Award for New Creators went to directing duo Daniel Scheinhart and Daniel Kwan, collectively known as DANIELS, for their outstanding work over the last 18 months.
- The Honorary Award for Social Change was awarded to worldwide collaborative project One Day On Earth.
- The Honorary Award for Digital Maverick was awarded to openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.
Twitter Confirms Facebook Integration of Usernames, Hashtags, Photos
Twitter has quietly tweaked the way usernames, hashtags, photos and more are cross-posted to Facebook.
“The updated Twitter for Facebook integration now includes additional rich media experiences related to the first photo, URL, @mention or #hashtag in the cross-posted tweet,” Twitter spokesman Robert Weeks told Mashable on Thursday night. “This update is available for everyone.”
Twitter‘s Help Center also notes the changes, which Weeks says rolled out at the end of May: “We have fixed many issues with the Twitter for Facebook integration, including the ability to post to Facebook Pages, and added some new features!”
Users who don’t see the integration working can disconnect their Twitter and Facebook accounts in their Twitter profile settings and then reconnect their accounts in their Twitter profile settings.
Media: This Is How You Make Something Go Viral: An Impractical Guide(via @Gawker) →
gawker.com
In effort to free up the longtime staff writers from a daily content quota and give them more breathing room, we instilled the whole traffic-whore model for about a month with varying results.
May 2012
9 posts
Why Facebook’s Tanking Today...
The stock is falling! The stock is falling! If you stopped following the Facebook IPOcalypse on Friday, it might be time to pull up another chair.
Facebook was never worth $104 billion. And the IPO was never about a stock price shooting into the stratosphere. There’s a reason nearly every significant early investor—including Mark Zuckerberg—sold of tens of millions of shares in the lead-up to Friday’s debut. It was easily the best price they were going to get for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, Facebook has an extra $16 billion in the bank. Win-win, assuming you were already a billionaire.
Where’s the LIKE button for this? :)
Probing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism
The secrets of one of the most remarkable technological finds from Ancient Greece have been probed for the first time using powerful X-ray imaging equipment, specially shipped to Athens.
The Antikythera Mechanism as it is known, is regarded as the world’s oldest “computer” and is thought to have been used to predict solar and lunar eclipses and record dates of the ancient Olympiad. Its remains were recovered from a Roman shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece in 1901.
RIP MCA
Adam Yauch aka MCA Ch-Ch-Checked Out. Sad day.
