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The London Royal Opera House is using Twitter to write an opera
And, of course, it won't be over until the failwhale sings
opera  tumbl  twitter  art 
august 2009 by jimray
The Impossible Project
A quest to revive Polaroid film
film  photography  polaroid  art  tumbl 
january 2009 by jimray
Slate's got a nice roundup of info visualizations through the years
Nothing terribly new, but a great primer on the genre of "infoviz" art with some nice historical perspective.
infographics  visualization  art  tumbl 
august 2008 by jimray
Houses of the Holy gets the Sleevage treatment
Definitely Led Zeppelin's best cover ever. Also, stay to the end for a clever dig.
music  design  art  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
The human calendar
From the guy who did the human clock, where everyone's attention is focused on today. Nifty.
art  awesome  tumbl 
november 2007 by jimray
Hip hop pop-ups
You get an ad every time Kanye name checks his favorite brands. Clever, that.
advertising  music  brilliant  art  design  via:revgeorge  visualization  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
The White Glove Tracking project is done
Remember the project to track Michael Jackson's glove in every frame of the live Billy Jean performance? Well, it's done and the data is out there for somebody to do something cool with.
art  visualization  tumbl 
july 2007 by jimray
Greg Allen has a nice breakdown on Damien Hirst's insane diamond covered platinum skull
"Diamonds, it turns out, are a lot like art: heavy on perceived, light on actual, value"
art  culture  diamonds 
june 2007 by jimray
Dawdler - a longnow version of Twitter, with postcards
"A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?"
brilliant  art  twitter  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
A.O. Scott brilliantly dissects what's wrong with blaming the Va Tech shootings on pop culture
"Like guns, it seems, certain movies in the wrong hands can pose a threat to public safety."
art  culture  violence  movies  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
Lure Design Inc.
Some great, if a little pricey, concert posters
design  prints  home  art  illustration  music 
april 2007 by jimray
Gay Merit Badges by Larry Jens Anderson
As someone with lots of non-gay merit badges, who also thinks that the Boy Scouts need to get over their collective homophobia, this is pretty awesome
art  boyscouts  homosexuality  politics  parody  funny 
december 2006 by jimray
| Aluminium |
White Stripes performed by a 52 piece orchestra. Usually, I'm a little blase about these gimicky sort of things (Radiohead! On piano!) but the sample tracks sound pretty avant garde, I likey.
music  art 
november 2006 by jimray
The Joy of Painting Saddam
LA Weekly article about the Let's Paint TV guy.
art  media 
november 2006 by jimray
Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank
Guerrilla artist Bansky replaces about 500 Paris Hilton CD's with modified versions but "left the original barcode so people could buy the CD without realising it had been interfered with." Enhanced CD, anyone?
art  awesome  celebrity  culture  media  music  music?  via:williamgibson 
september 2006 by jimray
Pirated jazz records recorded on X-Ray films
"The method became so widespread in Hungary that not only amateurs, but the Hungarian Radio made sound recordings on such recycled X-ray films."
via:waxy  music  art  brilliant 
september 2006 by jimray
USA Today article on the guy behind Post Secret
I love that he's an unassuming middle aged suburban husband
art  weblogs  culture  media 
august 2006 by jimray
Far and Wide
The Golden Age of travel posters, from the 20's and 30's
design  art  travel  retro 
august 2006 by jimray
Kubrick Film Art
Posters and cards from the original releases
design  movies  kubrick  art  wishlist 
august 2006 by jimray
YouTube - Between You and Me
Short film shot with a Canon 20D in burst mode
art  film  photography  design  video 
july 2006 by jimray
The Rasterbator
Make huge, Warholesque printouts from your photos
art  design  photography  awesome 
june 2006 by jimray
we*heart*prints
"We*heart*prints is a compilation of beautiful, affordable art prints." And one of the nicest non-blog blog designs I've seen in a bit
via:joeweiss  webdev  design  art  wishlist 
march 2006 by jimray
iTunes Signature Maker
Java applet that analyzes your mp3s and creates a blurb representing "you" - cool!
music  brilliant  art 
december 2005 by jimray
Brian Udelhofen
Endtroducing performed live! This is easily the raddest thing I've seen since the Langley School music project.
brilliant  art  music 
september 2005 by jimray
"How We Got Engaged!" By Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I'm a sucker for good engagement stories even though I'm otherwise a cruel, heartless bastard
art  comics  beautiful  via:waxy 
september 2005 by jimray
Wiring
Adding hardware to Processing
design  art  hardware  programming 
august 2005 by jimray
dna 11
Art from your DNA
art  science  genetics 
july 2005 by jimray
Context Free
Programming for artists, looks like Proce55ing
art  design  programming 
july 2005 by jimray
Nike steals from Minor Threat
As if you needed another reason to never wear anything made by Nike
bigbiz  advertising  art  design  dumb  music 
june 2005 by jimray
How to become part of a secret service investigation
Photoshop, picture of Bush, picture of a gun, five minutes and Flickr should about do it. This is one of those monumental wastes of government time that Congresscritters should be fixing - does the Secret Service *really* need to investigate everything?
politics  art  chillingeffect  government  guns  privacy  dumb  via:waxy  law 
june 2005 by jimray
Pinup widget
I'm gonna go ahead and say that this is the best. widget. ever.
dashboard  mac  humor  art 
may 2005 by jimray
The Future We Were Promised
The futuristic drawings of Radebaugh
art  design  retro 
april 2005 by jimray
PostSecret
Share your secret. Absolutely beautiful
beautiful  art  secrets  brilliant  via:zeldman 
april 2005 by jimray
Dabblers and blowhards
Maciej Ceglowski doesn't think hackers are anything like painters [via Daring Fireball]
programming  art  writing 
april 2005 by jimray
SpringfieldIsForGayLoversOfMarriage.com
I don't think God cares if they have the same hoo-hoo or ha-ha. HA HA!
brilliant  simpsons  art  television 
february 2005 by jimray
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