swine flu public service announcement
29th Apr 2009
Far be it for me to add to the exponentially growing hysteria surrounding this current swine flu outbreak - really, I just wanted to make a picture of a pig wearing a mask. So I did :) - but I felt it was my duty as a citizen of the world to share this PSA with as many people as possible.
Released by the U.S. Public Health Service in 1976, it's a cautionary tale of how a guy ...
a wu-cube on youcube via youtube
24th Apr 2009
This type of thing would probably be sufficiently covered in a simple tweet but TweetDeck just spazzed out on me so I thought I'd take it back to the old school and briefly blog about it.
YouCube has a simple premise, and a simple delivery, but it's rather fun. Load up a cube with 6 links to videos on YouTube and they get loaded onto each side of a cube which you can spin around and rotate as they play back. That's it really. The fading between the ...
top 7 dance music videos from the 90’s
09th Apr 2009
So, a while ago, before people like Benni Benassi and Eric Prydz started relying on tits, sweat and slow motion tits and sweat in their promotional material, dance music videos used to be brilliant. You know, back when artists appeared in their own videos, and not just as a seedy looking fat man in the midst of a club of semi-naked girls. Or if they weren't in the video, it was because the video consisted of groundbreaking 3D animation which more than made up for it. ...
radio 1’s 30 years of hip hop celebration
07th Apr 2009
Last night, BBC Radio 1 & 1xtra broadcast 5 hours of hip-hop as part of their celebration of '30 years of hip hop'. It was alright.
Most of the quality came from an hour long mix from Jaguar Skills, featuring tracks from the past 3 decades. Superb, and available to download courtesy of the man himself here. The quality of the mix is undeniable, but some of the tracks toward the end (i.e. recent times) are a bit iffy.. Maybe that's ...
full size whale in your browser
04th Apr 2009
^ That is a blue whale's eye, at actual size. Courtesy of the WDCS.
They've made this piece of flash that lets you float around the whale's ample body - life sized. It's huge but doesn't actually seem as big as I thought it'd be. It doesn't really help that you can only ever see a tiny portion of it at any one time, so it's hard to put it in context. Nonetheless, mildly fun to play around on, and it's for a good cause so no complaints here ...
the whole street view uk kafuffle
03rd Apr 2009
A little, previously unknown and quiet Buckinghamshire village by the name of Broughton has hit the news for 'standing up' to Google in the latest example of hysteria surrounding their much vaunted (by me) street view service. A handful of residents there successfully managed to deter the Google camera car by forming a vigilante type mob and waving pitchforks and crosses at it. Or something like that..
... once Paul Jacobs spotted the Google camera when he glanced out his window on Wednesday, the photographers did not get ...
tilt-shift videos
03rd Apr 2009
I stumbled onto these videos by Keith Loutit sometime last year and thought I'd blogged about them back then. But apparently not. I should've done though, because they're great. Then I saw them mentioned again last week and I'm captivated again.
I'm assuming that they're made from video footage which has been split into frames which have then digitally edited to look like tilt-shift photography, and then put back together again as a complete film. Regardless, they look brilliant and every one ...
most protesters are numpties *
02nd Apr 2009
(photo from here)
* or, most of the ones that end up on TV are
Firstly; protests should happen. Protests can be good. Get out there and get heard. etc etc etc. But do it properly.
Having been semi-raised on on a diet of NWA and Public Enemy, I'm always down for fucking the police and pointing out their jokeness. In the last few months alone there have been plenty of reasons to criticise police tactics/methods/fuck ups: such as this, and this, or this, maybe this, ...
kutiman mixes youtube
31st Mar 2009
Saw this today and marveled at the genius of it for a while. Thought I'd share.
It's basically a collection of songs that have been produced from audio snippets off of YouTube - and the corresponding music videos which are made up of the actual original video footage. I'll let Kutiman explain it himself;
It's really nicely done and actually surprisingly listenable-to. It's also a nice touch having the credits (i.e. links to the source material) because watching the original clips ...
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