Crayola ColorStudio HD is an entirely new digital play experience, coupling a multi-activity drawing application for iPad (Crayola ColorStudio HD App) with a custom-built digital stylus, called Crayola iMarker™. Together with iMarker, the ColorStudio HD App allows young artists to color and interact with special “live” animated coloring book pages that move and react as they color, combining custom-produced pictures, animations, music, sound effects, and high quality special effects.
Monday, February 28, 2011
A Coloring Book for iPad
No strings attached
Photographer Helen Flanagan photographs willing subjects she has encountered through adult dating sites.
See more at Helen Flanagan - Via Camera Obscura where you can read their stories.
This ongoing series aims to document an online world that revolves around sex. It looks deeper at current issues such as technology, modern human relations and sexuality by talking and photographing willing people whom use adult dating and swinging Internet websites. Contact would rely solely on web based interaction and as a result initial encounters were based upon the models profiles made up of personalized text and self-chosen imagery.
Actors Acting!
Photographer Howard Schatz placed actors in a series of roles and dramatic situations to reveal the essence of their characters:
RICKY GERVAIS
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| Left: You're the office toady, having a dutiful laugh over your boss's latest racist joke—and all too aware that everyone else at work hates you. Center: You're a Miss Universe finalist in the nanosecond between being named fifth runner-up and remembering to flash your best I'm-so-happy smile. Right: You're the school doofus, blissfully unaware that your having just been named prom king is a cruel, Carrie-style stunt by your classmates. |
HOPE DAVIS
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| Left: You're fresh out of the Yale School of Drama, desperately overselling Lady Macbeth's "Out, damn'd spot! Out, I say!" speech at a summer-rep audition. Center: You're a 13-year-old girl, seething as your precocious younger brother is heaped with lavish praise at an extended-family gathering. Right: You're a lonely woman with a stalker's crush on a TV star, spotting him coming out of a restaurant and certain that he is making a beeline toward you! |
AMY POEHLER
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Left: You are sneaking a peek, in the middle of the night, at your sweet new boyfriend's computer … and discovering e-mails to and from his three current "other" girlfriends. Center: You are a Park Avenue matron, paying your husband a surprise visit at his office and discovering him on the couch in flagrante delicto with his secretary. Right: You are a disoriented homeless woman being arrested for loitering. |
Thanks Bruce!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Lost Diggers
For nearly a century a unique, precious trove of Australian history has lain hidden and neglected among the dust and cobwebs of an attic in a disused French barn.
Australian TV has tracked down the incredible cache of 3000 glass plate photographic negatives — featuring Australia’s first Diggers on history’s bloodiest battlefield, the Western Front.
Meet Etti-Cat, the 1960s LOLcat
Long before LOLcat was demanding cheezburgerz and stealin' ur goods, a 1960s feline named "Etti-cat" prowled the earth.
Etti-Cat was a feline Emily Post, created by children's author, Jo Mary McCormick, to teach manners to the younger set. Much like today's LOLcat he was also popular with adults. What's not to love? Read more at Urlesque
Giant Monkey Sculpture
Can you guess what this giant monkey sculpture is made of?
A group of students in Sao Paulo, Brazil, constructed a giant monkey out of thousands of flip-flops!
See more at Inhabitat - Via my sister.
A group of students in Sao Paulo, Brazil, constructed a giant monkey out of thousands of flip-flops!
See more at Inhabitat - Via my sister.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Croshame’s Antigurumi Gallery
Here's some badass crochet. I've been looking for a craft to occupy me when I retire. This might be the one.
You can buy these and more at Croshame's Etsy store Via Everlasting Blort
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| The Exorcist |
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| Hogtied |
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| Sid and Nancy |
You can buy these and more at Croshame's Etsy store Via Everlasting Blort
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Hidden Inside the Walls
French artist Marc Giai-Miniet creates incredibly detailed miniature boxes featuring multi-level structures, split apart to give us a fascinating view of what's going on inside.
Link - Via My Modern Metropolis
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Identifying the victims of a 100-year-old tragedy
The final unidentified victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire—a 1911 tragedy that had a huge impact on the creation of American labor laws and building codes—have finally been matched with names.
More at Boing Boing
The Heart Knows
A Bollywood inspired wedding video.
"DIL JAANTA HAI (THE HEART KNOWS)" - Anuja + Nirav's Bollywood Concept from PACIFIC PICTURES on Vimeo.
Anuja Gupta and Nirav Shah, the two leads in this very short film make up a couple in real life. The path of true love never did run smooth and this charts the tentative beginnings of their relationship. He was a shy Medical Doctor, she a pretty pharmaceutical representative. It took them a while to introduce themselves to each other and this film shows how it came to pass.
Via Kuriositas
Thanks Bruce.
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview
I remember a time long ago when my colleagues and I were discussing guys we thought were all that. Opinions ranged from Tom Cruise to Kevin Costner to Richard Gere. I thought I was weird when I revealed my hot-on for David Byrne but Nadine beat me out in the weird category when she named Pierre Berton as her secret hottie. I laughed til I almost wet my pants; actually thinking back on it there probably was some minor leakage. This interview is supposed to be about Bruce Lee but for me it's all about Pierre Berton.
Bruce Lee "The Lost Interview" 1971 - Be like water my friend - Pierre Berton Show from Maximilian on Vimeo.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Royal Wedding Who's Who
Among the invitees to the Middleton/Windsor wedding are the King of Jordan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the Sultan of Oman, the King of Bahrain, the Sultan of Brunei and the King of Saudi Arabia as well as the Emperor of Japan, the King of Malaysia, the King of Tonga and the King of Thailand.
Among those who have not been invited are Mr. and Mrs. Nag and the Obamas. I guess we'll have our own little shindig either at the White House or Chez Nag.
Royal Dutch Guide Dog Foundation: Harness
In this new commercial for the Royal Dutch Guide Dog Foundation, we see a variety of dogs wearing the most fancy and expensive fashion items. They parade along the street as if it’s a catwalk. However, one accessory is clearly out of place, both in style and in price.
Find 35 Movies Hidden in this Animation
35 movies simplified. The outcome is a 2 minute journey through the history of film. It's harder than it looks.
35mm from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.
Kuriositas
35mm from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.
Hipster Bingo
Laughing Squid
Merry Clayton and Gimme Shelter
Those of us who are a certain age remember Merry Clayton's soaring backup vocals on the Rolling Stones hit Gimme Shelter. Here's her own very dark version recorded in 1970.
There's lots more at John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot
Idle Doodles by Famous Authors
We all doodle. Some famous authors were also doodlers in their down time. Below are casual artworks by Henry Miller, Jorge Luis Borges and Kurt Vonnegut.
There are many more revealing doodles at Flavorwire
Via metafilter
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| From Miller’s insomniac period |
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| Borges’ self-portrait, drawn after he had gone blind |
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| You know what that asterisk is |
There are many more revealing doodles at Flavorwire
Via metafilter
Adieu, Barcelona!
Lucas sent me this video. He lived in Barcelona for 3 years and decided to say goodbye to the city by sending out balloons with theatre tickets. There are some nice shots of one of my favourite cities. The song in the video is "Change the World, from the Canadian singer Jessica Allossery and this is her videoclip.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Famous Drinks From the Movies
Feast your eyes on this lovely series of posters by Moxy Creative House. Each shows a different drink that represents a particular movie.
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| A Clockwork Orange, Sideways, The Hangover, The Big Lebowski, Dr. No, A Menace to Society, The Departed, Coffee & Cigarettes, Blue Velvet, There Will Be Blood, Waterworld, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, American Pie, Miami Vice, Casablanca, Moulin Rouge, Rocky, Dracula, The Nutty Professor, Groundhog Day |
Layered Tourist Photos Made Into Art
Artist Corrine Vionnet mined various photo-sharing sites for pictures of iconic landmarks and tourism hotspots, then layered anywhere from 200 to 300 photos of the same landmark on top of each other to create these interesting pieces.
Love, the anti-christ
On March 31st of 1994, Madonna appeared as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman. Her appearance was notable for her profanity: she used the word "fuck" thirteen times; called Letterman a "sick fuck"; asked the host to smell some underwear she was holding and refused to leave the stage when asked.
On April 12th Madonna faxed the following birthday greeting to his office:
See the offending video at Letters of Note
On April 12th Madonna faxed the following birthday greeting to his office:
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Desserts Too Pretty To Eat
Mother Nature doesn't make them; Rosario Gamboa does. Each Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, the owner of Canela Bakery in Gaithersburg (formerly Cazuela Bakery) sends at least a half-dozen to the stand she rents in the Bethesda market. "They're called gelatinas," she says, proud of each spiky purple chrysanthemum, pink rose and happy sunflower suspended in a compact hemisphere of clear gelatin.
Lucia Ganieva "Dreaming Walls"
In a small, remote village in the Udmurt Republic of Russia, photographer Lucia Ganieva discovered a wonderful anomaly in home decoration — the interiors of practically every home in the village feature room-size photographic murals of “exotic” scenes, which symbolize the distant places that the home-dwellers will never visit, except in their dreams.
Read the rest of the story at lens culture
Shizuka Yokomizo "Dear Strangers"
The subjects of this photographic project have little in common except:
More at Patty's Documentary Photography Final
the fact that they occupy ground-floor apartments (in Berlin, New York, Tokyo, or London, where the Japanese-born photographer now lives) and acceded to the anonymous request they received in the mail: "Dear Stranger, I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know.... I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening." The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness, her identity to be revealed only when her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).
More at Patty's Documentary Photography Final
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The 25 Best Dog Breeds
The Westminster Dog Show is on. The Daily Beast tells us which breeds can lay claim to all-time supremacy.
Lego Tower Bridge
It took 11 hours and 4200 bricks to build this model of London's Tower Bridge.
Londonist
Monday, February 14, 2011
James Hart Dyke: A Year with MI6
t was a top-secret mission he couldn't refuse. Painter James Hart Dyke was assigned to shadow spooks for a year, sketchbook in hand. What did he learn about their mysterious world?
More at A Year with MI6
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| Dog Walker 2010, oil on canvas. The most everyday activities, such as walking a dog, can be used as a way of meeting a contact without attracting suspicion |
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| The Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross, London 2011, oil on canvas. The SIS HQ, on the south side of the Thames, beside Vauxhall Bridge, is one of London's most paradoxical buildings: well-known from the outside, a mystery within. Since it opened in 1994 it has become a landmark on the capital's skyline, but access to its interior is highly restricted |
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| Waiting in the Hotel Room 2010, pencil, watercolour and charcoal on paper. Spies spend long hours working, waiting for contacts and waiting for calls. 'There's a lot of hanging around,' says Hart Dyke. 'You're in a completely ordinary place, waiting for something quite extraordinary to happen... and often waiting for a long time.' |
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