March 4, 2013

What a marvelous day in the market

Markets of Britain
posted by twoleftfeet at 10:48 PM PST - 17 comments

It's a country opening up

The Pirate Bay has announced via a blog post that they will be using North Korea as a haven to serve pages without facing prosecution from copyright authorities. [more inside]
posted by 23 at 8:17 PM PST - 77 comments

Down but not out.

After Forbes magazine declared Dayton, OH, one of America's " fastest dying cities," a group of local media makers created Reinvention Stories. The interactive film/multimedia experience rolls out this month in three acts.
posted by Miko at 7:46 PM PST - 27 comments

"This is sometimes harder than it looks." —David Daniels

Journey Through A Melting Brain (The Stratacut of David Daniels) David Daniels is the master of strata-cut animation, "a form of clay animation in which a long bread-like "loaf" of clay, internally packed with varying imagery, is sliced into thin sheets, with the animation camera taking a frame of the end of the loaf for each cut, eventually revealing the movement of the internal images within.... [I]n strata-cut, you build your imagery not just in X, Y, and Z space, but also considering time as a dimension, and the most important one." Daniels' films are mesmerizing explosions of color. In an interview with Art of the Title, he discusses the history of the process, his own trajectory, and how to make your own strata-cut animation (in a video demo at the bottom of the page).
posted by ocherdraco at 7:09 PM PST - 21 comments

I have this song in my head, and it cannot be exorcised until I hear it

Call Me A Hole [more inside]
posted by KokuRyu at 6:05 PM PST - 66 comments

"the rare moments of child-like joy to the shadows of pain"

Beyond the Swanson. Paste interviews Nick Offerman.
posted by crossoverman at 5:29 PM PST - 13 comments

The meanest PSA ever?

New York City has announced a new teen pregnancy prevention campaign. Some are calling them the meanest PSAs ever. [more inside]
posted by Stewriffic at 4:20 PM PST - 116 comments

BUTT banned, BUTTS somehow okay

DC has banned over 26,000 vanity licence plate letterings. Can you out-smut the DC DMV?
posted by troika at 3:28 PM PST - 99 comments

One man made this game. A single person. Think about that and cry.

A short French documentary (Part 1). (Part 2). on the making of the classic platformer, Another World (released in the US as Out Of This World).
posted by mediocre at 2:56 PM PST - 48 comments

The Adventure of the Moshing Men

You read the paper Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts, watched mesmerizing moshing gifs and finally decided to simulate the pit yourself.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 2:44 PM PST - 15 comments

He Was A Dandy Before It Was Cool

This year's winner of the Eustace Tilley contest features a Brooklyn hipster. The New Yorker Magazine received hundreds of entries for the contest. A little bit more about Eustace. (Previously.) [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 2:05 PM PST - 34 comments

Save-On-Meats

For over 50 years Save-On-Meats was a fixture in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. When original owner Al DesLauriers retired in 2009, the building was renovated & reopened as a modern diner and butchershop under the same name. It was the first Canadian eatery to be visited by that Guy. New owner Mark Brand gave a passionate TED talk last year about the ups and downs he experienced integrating with the low income community. Their latest initiative is a controversial breakfast sandwich token that patrons can purchase and distribute to hungry neighbourhood residents.
posted by mannequito at 1:55 PM PST - 27 comments

Faces of Human Ancestors

To put a human face on our ancestors, scientists from the Senckenberg Research Institute used sophisticated methods to form 27 model heads based on tiny bone fragments, teeth and skulls collected from across the globe. Here is a video showing those different models morphing into one another. Original article here. [via] [more inside]
posted by lazaruslong at 1:30 PM PST - 12 comments

Some call it whining. I call it facts.

Today, VIDA (Women in Literary Arts) published their annual VIDA count, breaking down the treatment of women in literature in 2012 and the past three years of trends.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:04 PM PST - 11 comments

I need a name that's cutting-edge, like CutCo, EdgeCom, InterSlice...

"At the time, Groening was best known as the artist of the comic Life in Hell, as The Simpsons has not yet premiered. The brochure was titled, 'Who Needs a Computer Anyway' and interspersed Groening’s Life in Hell style illustrations with standard information on Apple’s Mac computers." Apple once hired Matt Groening to do some illustrations for them.
posted by gauche at 12:40 PM PST - 36 comments

Swimming with Spacemen

How astronauts train for spacewalks in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory [more inside]
posted by get off of my cloud at 12:27 PM PST - 5 comments

"i made visions on garageband"

"u should prob buy a mic/ interface and u might appreciate some instruments" A brief tutorial on music production by Claire Boucher, aka Grimes. [more inside]
posted by Doleful Creature at 11:56 AM PST - 94 comments

1. one specimen α of the species coolcaticus with maximal length of neck

At this point I usually feel it would be a good idea to say something about this , Exercices de Style, But as it's rather difficult to know where to begin, if I'm not careful I find that my would-be explanation goes rather like this: "Oh yes, you know, it's the story of a chap who gets into a bus and starts a row with another chap who he thinks keeps treading on his toes on purpose, and Queneau repeats the story 99 times in different ways - it's terribly good . . . [more inside]
posted by Think_Long at 11:38 AM PST - 9 comments

An urban vertical garden built from hundreds of recycled soda bottles

This beautiful vertical garden made out of hundreds of recycled soda bottles was built for the Rodriguez family by the Brazilian design firm Rosenbaum. The bottles are suspended on the wall of a walkway outside the home and contain edible plants like lettuce and herbs so the family can grow their own organic vegetables. The garden was created as part of the TV show Lar Doce Lar (Home Sweet Home), in which producer Luciano Huck and the designers at Rosenbaum collaborated to transform the homes of several dozen poor Brazilian families. The response to the Rodriguez family's wall garden was so overwhelming that Rosenbaum eventually released the garden design plans (in Portuguese) so people could build their own. [Rosenbaum's page on the complete Rodriguez family home makeover (in Portuguese).]
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:08 AM PST - 36 comments

What Coke Contains

What Coke Contains.
posted by chunking express at 10:05 AM PST - 91 comments

Are You Experienced?

For the past two Februarys, Serious Eats Chief Creative Officer J. Kenji Alt-Lopez has gone vegan for the entire month. Here he shares the 60 vegan recipes he created during his Vegan Experience.
posted by slogger at 9:02 AM PST - 74 comments

Crowd funding is a lot like crowd surfing

"And I fell into those thousands of connections that I'd made. And I asked the crowd to catch me."  "When you connect with them people want to help you" - The art of asking by Amanda Palmer [more inside]
posted by jeffburdges at 8:32 AM PST - 129 comments

Mantas Last Dance

In an effort to raise awareness of the hunting of manta-rays to near extinction, Shawn Heinrichs made this beautiful underwater video of a model swimming with the mantas in their natural habitat. [more info at the via]
posted by quin at 8:20 AM PST - 14 comments

You're it - for another year.

The men who have played one game of tag for over 20 years (previously) got more intense after recent nationwide coverage. Then one player's father died unexpectedly... [more inside]
posted by mark7570 at 7:57 AM PST - 32 comments

Fame! We're gonna sell more Kotex!

Sometime in 1981-1982, ad agency Ogilvy and Mather made a video. Harlem Shake, eat your heart out.
posted by Mchelly at 7:56 AM PST - 18 comments

High voltage wood erosion.

How beautiful it is when you allow high voltage electricity to burn it's way through wood? Very beautiful.
posted by OmieWise at 7:48 AM PST - 24 comments

The Wonders Of Life: Is Brian Cox on Acid?

Philomena Cunk and Barry Shitpeas from Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe show take a look at Brian Cox's programme about how science did all the life. Plus more 2013 commentary from Shitpeas and Cunk on Die Hard and the Harlem Shake.
posted by hot soup girl at 7:01 AM PST - 48 comments

"occurs mostly on online comments for blogs and articles"

If a shibboleth is a way to determine an "insider", by saying something that only an "insider" could say, what is something that an "insider" would never say? How about a 'Frisco'? [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 6:53 AM PST - 209 comments

"(5) Pure evil from the 8th dimension (Man U)."

A NFL fan discovers the joys of proper football and explains why the English Premier League is so much more exciting.
posted by MartinWisse at 6:12 AM PST - 72 comments

Pithy title goes here

Every Fucking Website
posted by desjardins at 4:48 AM PST - 63 comments

35000 BC: Earliest three holed flutes appear. And we go from there...

Music Timeline: A chronology of music from prehistory to the present day
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:18 AM PST - 11 comments

I'm gonna bash that...

Mining Boom are a Perth band whose videos for the fuzzed out pop songs Telecom and Craigie (NSFW language) use found footage to invoke and skewer a sense of nostalgic Australiana.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 3:52 AM PST - 3 comments

"A law should serve the people, but it didn't protect me."

In Korea, Changes in Society and Family Dynamics Drive Rise in Elderly Suicides - "The epidemic is the counterpoint to the nation's runaway economic success, which has worn away at the Confucian social contract that formed the bedrock of Korean culture for centuries." [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 1:12 AM PST - 23 comments

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