Collective Perception
November 18, 2007 3:08 PM Subscribe
I feel like I'm looking at the artsy, intellectual version of Time Cube.
posted by hjo3 at 3:20 PM on November 18, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by hjo3 at 3:20 PM on November 18, 2007 [2 favorites]
I began to enjoy it as soon as I stopped trying to understand what was happening, and what it meant.
posted by horsemuth at 3:22 PM on November 18, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by horsemuth at 3:22 PM on November 18, 2007 [2 favorites]
What an interesting, quirky site. Love the animation of a tesseract. (a wrinkle in timecube?) Definitely bookmarked.
posted by mayfly wake at 3:24 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by mayfly wake at 3:24 PM on November 18, 2007
Yeah, hjo3, I had the same feeling.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:36 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:36 PM on November 18, 2007
Bookmarked for later--a large sausage pepperoni black olive pizza is on it's way (priorities, ya know) but way cool. Thanks.
posted by wafaa at 3:38 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by wafaa at 3:38 PM on November 18, 2007
Extremely cool. Salvador Dali would have been proud...
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 3:39 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 3:39 PM on November 18, 2007
Sausage, pepperoni, black olive, onion, and green pepper, and a winner would be you.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 4:00 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 4:00 PM on November 18, 2007
Hold the olives for me; I wouldn't turn it down, but I would eat less of it.
HEY! I just discovered a way to diet! Olives on everything! My reality just changed!
posted by wendell at 4:18 PM on November 18, 2007
HEY! I just discovered a way to diet! Olives on everything! My reality just changed!
posted by wendell at 4:18 PM on November 18, 2007
My reality just changed!
A paradigm shift instigated by pizza! I got your Demming!
posted by wafaa at 4:24 PM on November 18, 2007
A paradigm shift instigated by pizza! I got your Demming!
posted by wafaa at 4:24 PM on November 18, 2007
Very cool! question: is this site all done with XHTML?
posted by zardoz at 4:36 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by zardoz at 4:36 PM on November 18, 2007
question: is this site all done with XHTML?
posted by gwint at 4:53 PM on November 18, 2007
<body onload="site = new CollectiveFeed();"></body>View source ain't what it used to be...
posted by gwint at 4:53 PM on November 18, 2007
The underlying sites are quite cool, like the Societ architecture one and the Thierry le Goues photography. And the postal t shirts is a good idea though a bit pricey.
posted by Rumple at 4:54 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by Rumple at 4:54 PM on November 18, 2007
I've actually had quite a reasonable hit from this site over the last few days and spent a bit of time trying to play around with the css bits and bobs in the view source and also chasing it up on a blog search. The best I understand is that all or virtually all its traffic came from fffound. It's not just a feed aggregator I don't think, or if it is, it's like something tweaked through yahoo pipes and then augmented. The link they give to my site is a search term and the only place I know or seem to remember that occurring was in a 3Quarksdaily piece on BibliOdyssey a couple of weeks ago. Weird. But then again, I like weird.
posted by peacay at 5:10 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by peacay at 5:10 PM on November 18, 2007
Actually, forget that. The search link to Bib on collective perception hasn't been posted anywhere previously.
posted by peacay at 5:17 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by peacay at 5:17 PM on November 18, 2007
Wow.
God, I wish I could make that layout with pure CSS.
posted by vertigo25 at 5:41 PM on November 18, 2007
God, I wish I could make that layout with pure CSS.
posted by vertigo25 at 5:41 PM on November 18, 2007
A bit of investigating (clicking) on this neat image yielded a trip to this blog with a shit-ton of similar interesting imagery.
Yet no (at a cursory glance) context. Anyone know anything about that original image?
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 5:50 PM on November 18, 2007
Yet no (at a cursory glance) context. Anyone know anything about that original image?
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 5:50 PM on November 18, 2007
SmileyChewtrain, I'm about 97% sure I found it at the ex libris museum but I can't remember who the artist was.
posted by peacay at 6:13 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by peacay at 6:13 PM on November 18, 2007
uh... you could ask peacay... three comments up. It's his blog.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 6:14 PM on November 18, 2007
posted by Baby_Balrog at 6:14 PM on November 18, 2007
I liked the T-shirts, but too pricey.
Oh, and the Douglas Adams' quote was a nice touch. Most of the rest of it either went over my head or under my feet.
posted by ZachsMind at 6:20 PM on November 18, 2007
Oh, and the Douglas Adams' quote was a nice touch. Most of the rest of it either went over my head or under my feet.
posted by ZachsMind at 6:20 PM on November 18, 2007
I don't know what the hell i'm looking at here, but i love it.
Can someone explain to me what's going on?
posted by empath at 6:22 PM on November 18, 2007
Can someone explain to me what's going on?
posted by empath at 6:22 PM on November 18, 2007
There's some tangential visual similarity between that work and Richard Olmsted, though he's more of an anti-capitalist anarchist.
posted by The Straightener at 6:22 PM on November 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by The Straightener at 6:22 PM on November 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
uh... you could ask peacay... three comments up. It's his blog.
Holy cow, I should stop getting too excited about posting a comment before reading all the previous comments. Sorry about that Peacay, and thanks for the info!
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 7:08 PM on November 18, 2007
Holy cow, I should stop getting too excited about posting a comment before reading all the previous comments. Sorry about that Peacay, and thanks for the info!
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 7:08 PM on November 18, 2007
It's almost the hypertext version of The Art of Looking Sideways I've been waiting for, nice find!
posted by elphTeq at 3:08 AM on November 19, 2007
posted by elphTeq at 3:08 AM on November 19, 2007
ooh, just noticed the multi-column trickery, super cool!
posted by elphTeq at 3:12 AM on November 19, 2007
posted by elphTeq at 3:12 AM on November 19, 2007
Wow... thanks for that Richard Olmstead link. Powerful stuff.
posted by poweredbybeard at 10:17 AM on November 19, 2007
posted by poweredbybeard at 10:17 AM on November 19, 2007
This is exactly what the Internet is all about. Looking at this site makes me as happy as when I was 12 and sorting through Gopherspace for all of its very neat things. It's original, thought-provoking, pretty, and easily digested. Thanks!
posted by Sticherbeast at 10:19 AM on November 19, 2007
posted by Sticherbeast at 10:19 AM on November 19, 2007
Turns out it's run by these folks, who seem a bit over the top.
posted by phrontist at 6:45 AM on November 22, 2007
posted by phrontist at 6:45 AM on November 22, 2007
I am coming back to this thread to express that it has probably become my favorite site on the entire internet at this point.
posted by mayfly wake at 11:42 PM on December 1, 2007
posted by mayfly wake at 11:42 PM on December 1, 2007
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