Peep it - a totally sweet animated video for a blippy electronic club piece:
Ghislain Poirier - Hit & Red (official) from departement on Vimeo.
“Hit and Red” comes from Montreal musician Ghislain Poirier who seems to specialize in bumpin’ beets.
Category Archives: Teh Interwebs
Hit and Red
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
A Short Love Story in Stop Motion
Friday, July 18, 2008
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.
This glorious animated short not only features one of my favorite Sigur Rós songs (Takk…’s “Hoppípolla”), but highlights a sweet blend of traditional stop-motion handicraft and digital artistry. Carlos Lascano describes the process (and is gracious enough to include photos) on his website.
Blank
Thursday, July 17, 2008
I’m pretty sure this is in response to the over-blown media noise-making about the recent cover illustration, but even if it’s not, yesterday’s totally safe animation from The New Yorker is hilarious.
Tweeting Legislation?
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
It turns out that as politicians continue to crawl their way into the land of 21st-Century technology, Congress must consider the proper use of communication media like Twitter…
Baman Piderman
Friday, July 11, 2008
You can thank me later for laughing your head off this Friday morning:
(via trey)
Thsrs
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
David Friedman over at Ironic Sans has turned one of his great ideas into a reality with Thsrs.
Thsrs is a simple (on the surface) web application which attempts to do for words what services such as TinyURL do for hyperlinks, providing shorter synonyms to help folks keep Twitter messages at or under 140 characters. [...]
List Of Problems Solved By MacGyver
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Oh Wikipedia, you treasure trove of useless yet entertaining knowledge. You have surprised and delighted us again with your exhaustive list of problems solved by MacGyver.
Some serious gems:
While being pursued by dirty CIA operatives at a strip club, MacGyver loads a confetti cannon with make-up powder and fires it at them as they enter [...]
Textpattern
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The nerd in me often has a desire to check out new web apps at least for a short period of time, and the flavor of my week is Textpattern. Textpattern is a blog-centric CMS which is PHP-based and open source. It was pretty easy to install, and seemed to near-seamlessly import everything [...]
Petersburg, The Civil War, and 143-Year-Old Photos
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The above is one example of a series of Thomas Roche photographs from the aftermath of fighting at Petersburg, VA in 1865.
On War, Weapons, and Humanity
Monday, June 23, 2008
Jakob Lodwick quoted a Times Online story about the use of especially brutal and destructive explosives in Afghanistan by British and American forces. I’m not 100% sure, but I get the impression (from the quote he used) that Lodwick’s point was the moral bankruptcy demonstrated by a military and/or government that simply changes the [...]
