A gallery featuring beautiful aerial photography from Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s global survey: The Earth From Above. As mentioned in a previous post, the project “was born from Yab’s dream for a general survey on the state of the Earth at the eve of the 21st century”.
Sony dropped around 250,000 mulitcolored bouncing superballs down a San Francisco street to film a commerical for their Bravia flat-screen televisions.
A comedy troupe with many sketches available to watch online. One of their more recent bits, Reach, is a short musical number set during a university lecture.
“Adrian Ocneanu, professor of mathematics at Penn State, has designed a stainless steel sculpture depicting a 3-dimensional projection of a 4-dimensional ‘octacube’. The massive sculpture was fabricated by Penn State’s Engineering Services Shop.”
“Megachurch”—like “McMansion” or “big-box store”—is a disdainful put-down. And like many put-downs it is not particularly accurate; very large churches have been around for a long time. Think Hagia Sophia, the Gothic cathedrals, or that Vatican megabasilica, St. Peter’s, which accommodates 60,000 worshipers. [...] What distinguishes the current crop of megachurches is not so much their size—none rivals St. Peter’s—but their different sense of architectural style.
The Long Now Foundation unveiled its Orrery clock last night to the public in Marin County, California.
The Colbert Report premiered Monday (M-TH, 11:30pm, following The Daily Show on Comedy Central), and if you haven’t yet caught it (fools), here are the first week’s episodes available for download, courtesy CommonBits.
Imogen is best known as the voice of Frou Frou, specifically her single “Let Go”, featured in the movie Garden State last year. Her newest solo album, Speak For Yourself, just came out in the UK, and is set for US release the first of November. It’s already the 277th most popular album on Amazon (US) with more than ten days left until its arrival.
A time-lapse animation of this year’s hurricane season thus far, with all the storms from A-Z.
“a collaboratively generated geographical map of the US that visualizes how the country is organized culturally, as opposed to its traditional political boundaries. the map attempts to show how the country is divided into ’spheres of influence’ between different cities at the national, regional & local levels.”
For over a year, Hu Yang photographed and interviewed 500 local, migrant and foreign families living in Shanghai, from billionaires to the poor. His work is on exhibition at the ShanghART H-Space Gallery through the 30th of October, but many images, with quotes from the subject(s), can be viewed online.
Basically, I just needed a reason to post this picture. And to mention I’ve encoded Firefly < Serenity for the new video-capable iPod. Move along.
A flickr group of photography taken by tossing digital cameras with the shutter open.
Much like Julian Beever, Eric Grohe paints murals that add depth to otherwise plain facades.
Freedom and wickedness … side by side.
An awesome new time-travelling television spot for Guinness, playing off a familiar meme.
Tycho’s debut album, sort of Boards Of Canada meets Zero 7. In the design world he is known as ISO50, most notably for his line of tshirts, although his graphic and web design skills are no less impressive.
I’m sure most who have seen both the movie and series will agree that Serenity has more significance when you know at least a little about the universe and its characters beforehand. I combed through my copy of the series and found some key moments I thought were worthy evangelical material, and thought I’d share it with everyone else.
The Washington Post presents 360-degree panoramic photography of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Live video feed from a fairly active remote watering hole in Botswana, Africa via satellite — part of National Geographic’s WildCam Africa feature.
American Apparel makes plain t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, hooded sweatshirts, pants, underwear, swimwear, etc. [...] The fabric is extremely soft, the stitching is clean and durable, and they’re cut to fit — no cookie-cutter beefy T’s with scratchy labels. You won’t have to go out of your way to pay for their threads either: t-shirts sell for $15-25, collared shirts for around $40.
An online community and family of websites for news, politics, music, and video.
AKA Tom Withers, an undeniable fixture in the Drum and Bass scene for the last ten years, and founding father of the record label, Commercial Suicide.
Long have great thinkers been searching for meaning, logic — anything — in the seemingly infinite stream of numbers that is pi. Enter Randall Munroe …
You! (approximately 25% of you.) Are you using Internet Explorer to view this site? Do you know that many new websites (including this one) don’t display correctly in IE, given its sparse support for current web standards? I’m just saying … if a browser is a browser to you, take it from someone to whom it isn’t. Firefox is free, faster, and more advanced than Internet Explorer. Thats it … step into the light …