October 2011
2 posts
Diaphanous Multicolor Thread Windings →
I try to avoid superlatives in my headlines, and have been for awhile now. But it’s been a long time since I had such a hard time resisting that urge. Here’s a few that came to mind…
Steve Jobs: 1955 – 2011 →
Steven Paul Jobs, the co-founder and chairman of Apple, died Wednesday at the age of 56.
Born in San Francisco in 1955, Jobs grew up near Cupertino,…
February 2011
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The last name effect
People whose surnames begin with the first few letters of the alphabet (A-I) seem to react differently to certain situations than those whose surnames begin with the letters at the end of the alphabet (R-Z). Slate reports. E-mails were sent out to adults offering them $500 to participate in a survey. Average response time was between six and seven hours. The same negative correlation...
November 2010
1 post
If we don't, remember me.
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Sublet Animated gifs. This is one of my favorite scenes in RT.
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October 2010
7 posts
TabCloud
via lifehacker.com Chrome Extension: Save and syc your tabs on multiple computers. Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Good Copy, Schizzles and Verne.
Sure Gansta Lorem Ipsum blew up today, but its still Lorem Ipsum with a few “schizzles”. Enter Filerati.com, good copy from authors you should have read, plus a great interface for selecting just how you want your copy to look. http://www.fillerati.com/# Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services
via smashingmagazine.com Nice round up of popular web font rendering solutions. We have integrated Typekit at InstantAction and have found it relatively painless there selection of fonts is quite impressive and have manage to land some Adobe fonts recently. Personally I have used Google Fonts, which has a very small catalogue but is Free. Did I mention it was free? Google also has numerous ways...
Angel's Choice: A Virtual Stock Exchange for...
via feedproxy.google.com This is a really great idea, this app adds ‘Gamefication’ to app discovery. You play the role of an Angel investor betting on which real apps will be popular. Plus its a great way to discover more apps that do not make it to the Top 10. Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
"Diminished Reality" Removes Objects from Video in...
via tested.com Amazing video showing real time image displacement. There goes my Rubber stamping skills. Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Stereoscopic 3D Videos Awesomeness
via abduzeedo.com A long time ago, when I worked at a job where I had to stand for a long time. I would bring a little sketch pad with me and make drawings that were similar to these videos. The principle is simple if you focus on two similar objects and start to cross your eyes eventually those objects will appear as one. Once in this “mode” you can start to see the environment...
Found photo animations
via kottke.org This is pretty amazing, Cassandra Jones finds these images online and stitches them together. In another unrelated Muybridge post from Kottke, It seems as if Muybridge may not have taken all the photos that are attributed to him. http://kottke.org/10/06/muybridge-but-not-by-muybridge Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
August 2010
2 posts
How to Microwave Gourmet Popcorn in a Brown Paper...
via squawkfox.com Wow…. This is so ridiculously easy, I can’t believe that I have never heard of this before now. All the convenience of the microwave without all the bad ingredients and wasteful packaging. Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Make: Online : Hopworks Beer Bike
via blog.makezine.com This things I like, beer, bikes and Hobworks Brewery all combined to make the Hopworks Beer Bike. Checkout the link to see a video Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
July 2010
2 posts
About Portland Oregon… « Drawn!
via drawn.ca big love for portland Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Pancake flipping robot
via kottke.org ahhh….. rest easy humans… robot domination is still a bit further out. Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
June 2010
1 post
How-To: Build a bicycle sidecar
via blog.makezine.com This is awesome, sure beats the standard pull behind trailer! Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
May 2010
8 posts
Dogfish Head Reproduces 3400 yr Old Mesoamerica...
The Edible Geography blog has an amusing piece about Patrick McGovern, the “Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages,” and his role in the production of a 3400-year-old Mesoamerican beer recreated from a chemical analysis of pottery fragments. “McGovern describes his collaboration with Dogfish Head craft brewers… to create a beer based on the core...
Still Lost
via kottke.org College Humor has posted the most complete list of unanswered questions for Lost, in video form. “I don’t really care about the answers to most of these but watching it irritates me that they jerked us around with the Dharma/Others/Walt/4-toed statue crap when it didn’t matter at all.” - Jason Kottke Well at least all the major characters got back together....
TRAVEL PORTLAND
via youtube.com Nice little video on why portland is a great place to live :) Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Biking in Utrecht
via kottke.org This is almost a biking utopia… the guy at 1:03 brings it back to reality :) Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Vector Drawings by Luiz Gonzaga a.k.a. GONZ →
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Stunning time-lapse video of Eyjafjallajökull...
via feedproxy.google.com This is Awesome… but I still can’t pronounce the name of the volcano Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Papercraft optical illusion
via blog.makezine.com I had to go back a few time and see how this was done. Great visual illusion. Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
What if the Empire won?
The beautiful works of Italian illustrator Franco Brambilla. Since 2000 he has been one of the main illustrators of the “Urania” and “Urania Collezione” sc-ifi book collection by Mondadori. More on Designaside. via feedproxy.google.com Great Illustration work of Franco Brambilla Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
February 2010
1 post
Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google...
via feedproxy.google.com These dudes are pissed! If you scoot back down the street you can see them sitting waiting for the car. Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
January 2010
1 post
Time traveler's cheat sheet
Time traveler’s cheat sheet Have you ever fantasized about traveling back in time a few hu via boingboing.net I saw this a couple of days ago and realized that I needed to share. Some of you may have seen this, but I thought it was worth a repost. It gives the building blocks for the major technological breakthroughs of our time and how to implement them. Posted via...
November 2009
13 posts
Ryohei Hase
via ryoheihase.com Amazing work of Ryohei Hase Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Found Footage: Neutal Milk Hotel at the Knitting...
via mergerecords.com Live Neutral Milk Hotel from 1998 at the Knitting Factory in 1998. This is pretty great stuff, according to Pitchfork this footage has never been released before. Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
The Lighthouse Keeper
via drawn.ca Beautiful hand drawn animation, packed with action and suspense. Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Trillions: a short film on the future of computing
via crunchgear.com Great motion graphics, and well explained concepts of where we are with computers and where we will be in the future. The computers are everywhere! Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
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Rock Barrier
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The Font Kingdom: Search, Explore, Create, and... →
Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It’s becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I’m guessing…
Antimatter In Lightning →
AMESN writes “The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched last year, detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the…
Big Head Mode papercraft costume →
Eric Testroete, a 3D character artist from Vancouver, sent us this awesome self-portrait costume, an homage to Big Head Mode in videogames. Papercraft Self Portrait - 2009
Eric’s…
Google Voice Quick Reference Cheatsheet Speeds... →
Google Voice’s great feature set takes your phone and voicemail out of the past, but that doesn’t mean you won’t still have to navigate the occasional touch-tone menu. Weblog Cool Geex comes to…
Credit Karma Raises $2.5 Million To Take The... →
Credit Karma, a site that looks to help consumers understand, track, and improve their credit scores, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by QED Investors, with participation…
Artist Take on the Jules Verne Museum
via gurneyjourney.blogspot.com I love this image, the artist drew the building on location then “Separated [it] from gravity on its own journey to another world” Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Pixelated Blogging →
At a time when various blogs are evolving into printed products — Exhibits A, B, and C — it’s oddly reassuring to see what started as a zine back in the late 1980s maintain its web…
Blue LED
See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
October 2009
3 posts
Russian boy accordion genius
via feedproxy.google.com Wow, I’m not usually one for posting YouTube Vids but this kid is spectacular. Its worth a watch. Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
The map of the future (Wired Italia) on the...
via behance.net Great design on this map of the future. The map is broken down into 5 major sections Politics Infrastructure Environment Economics Society My Favorite future prediction “Brain imaging - reading thoughts. End of the 5th Amendment” And “Personal data Auras” Posted via web from Jason’s posterous | Comment »
Sketchbook Mobile iPhone app
A friend at work mentioned he had started drawing with an app on his iPhone called Brushes. After searching for it I realized they didn’t have a free version. So I remembered this app from Autodesk called Sketchbook Mobile, which fortunatley HAS a free version. I followed a quick intro tutorial and I was off. Once you get used to the controls they are very simple to use. I created the block...
September 2009
3 posts
Life Recorders May Be This Century’s Wrist Watch →
Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long. It has GPS and the ability to wirelessly upload…
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Posterous →
There’s something interesting happening in the space between Twitter and a full blown blog. We’re seeing more and more of our social friends turn to sites like Posterous for 140…
TiltShift Generator for iPhone →
Takayuki Fukatsu of Art&Mobile gave me a sneak peak of his new TiltShift Generator for iPhone, which stylizes the miniature effect on photos. Just like Art&Mobile’s other great…
August 2009
5 posts
Flash Love Letter (2009) Part 2 →
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The formatting on this may be a little off. Feel free to read it on Lostgarden.com for a slightly better experience.
In the previous post, we covered:
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Life in Russia →
So much has happened. Let’s start with my schedule: There are few things more satisfying than seeing slow sustained progress. We work so many hours each day that I often feel delirious and its all I…
Augmented Reality: A Human Interface for Ambient... →
Augmented reality (or AR) is fast becoming as ubiquitous a term as “Web 2.0.” The field is getting noisier by the day, and AR as a field of research now has to co-exist with its status as an…
Former French President says Bush invaded Iraq to... →
Former French President Jaques Chirac says that in 2003, President Bush asked him to send troops to Iraq to stop Gog and Magog, the “Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.” From James A. Haught’s…