Monthly Archives: March 2005

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned an interesting use of Flickr photosets that I’d seen. Having seen how cool that was, I went over to Flickr to try to set up some photosets of my own, only to discover … Continue reading →

It’s both disturbing and heartening to come across someone who’s independently come up with an idea that you thought was your own. There’s reassurance. You’re not crazy; it’s not just you. But there’s also disappointment. This thing that’d come into … Continue reading →

A World of Invisibilia seems to be an ongoing series of drawings/photos by Greg from The Man Who Fell Asleep, a strange site featuring “animations. pictures. words. sentences. banal observations. clumsy satire. fictional interviews. poetic license.” What he does is … Continue reading →

Most likely, you’ve used Hot-or-Not, the strangely hypnotizing site that lets you rate the attractiveness of strangers and, if you choose, be rated in turn. A couple of years back it spawned a whole universe of copycats from Rate-my-Kitten to … Continue reading →

Thomas Demand is a mid-career German artist who re-creates scenes from real-life and from photographs using cut colored construction paper. MoMA is currently putting on a retrospective of his work (NY Times article). Demand’s work, the above picture of a … Continue reading →

As I promised in a previous post, I’ve been listening to a number of podcasts from the Association of Music Podcasting. AMP is an alliance of various music podcasters who are working together to make a library of “pod safe” … Continue reading →

Brickfilms are stop-motion animated movies made with LEGOs, especially LEGO figures. They’re also called “LEGO Movies”. I hadn’t heard of them until about an hour ago and though I’m totally not surprised that they exist, I am pretty entertained. So, … Continue reading →