Feeding the Robots
The most awesome action scene ever
A friend sent me this, I’m baffled by the awesomeness of it. The directors name is E.V.V. Satyanarayana, I think that explains a bit.
Elastic Theme Editor for Wordpress
Elastic is a great way to get started if you want to develop custom themes for Wordpress.
Sagmeister Paper Chair
Altough I like the concept, I can’t really see this as nothing more than an art piece, with no function at all.
50 + 5 songs from 2009
- Simian Mobile Disco – Bad Blood
- Phoenix – 1901
- Girls – Hellhole Ratrace
- The Gossip – Heavy Cross
- Miike Snow – Animal
- Röyksopp – The Girl and the Robot
- Miike Snow – Black & Blue
- Yuksek – Tonight
- Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
- La Roux – In For The Kill
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
- Animal Collective – My Girls
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
- Feist and Ben Gibbard – Train Song
- The Dead Weather – Treat me Like your Mother
- MSTRKRFT – Heartbreaker f. John Legend
- Girls – Lust For Life
- Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
- Peaches – Show Stopper
- Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat
- Passion Pit – The Reeling
- Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson – Relator
- Silversun Pickups – It’s Nice To Know You Work Alone
- La Roux – Bulletproof
- Discovery – Swing Tree
- White Lies – Death
- Brakes – Two Shots
- Calvin Harris – Ready For the Weekend
- DatA – Rapture
- Datarock – Dance!
- Hot Chip – Take it In
- Metric – Help I’m Alive
- Sparklehorse – Everytime I’m With You (feat. Jason Lytle)
- Matt & Kim – Daylight
- Vitalic – Your Disco Song
- Brakes – Don’t take me Space(man)
- Jamie Cullum – Don’t Stop The Music
- Peter Bjorn & John – Nothing to Worry About
- Atlas Sound – Walkabout (with Noah Lennox)
- The Very Best (feat. Ezra Koenig) – Warm Heart of Africa
- Dananananaykroyd – Some Dresses
- Zoot Woman – Live in My Head
- The Decemberists – A Bower Scene
- The Horrors – Who Can Say
- The xx – Crystalised
- Deadmau5 – Ghost n Stuff
- Camera Obscura – French Navy
- Little Boots – Meddle
- Röyksopp – Happy Up Here
- Annie – Songs Remind Me of You
5 more just for kicks: - Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky
- Foge Foge Bandido – Fora de combate
- Florence + The Machine – Girl With One Eye
- DatA – One In a Million
- Tiga – Beep Beep Beep
And that’s it for two double oh nine, see you next year!
Best of 2009 in music
Just like last year, I scanned my last.fm yearly top to enumerate the records that I loved the most. I think 2009 wasn’t a great year in music, but there were some new good things popping out. So here’s my list:
- Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Miike Snow – Miike Snow
- Gossip – Music for Men
- The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
- Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
- Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur
- Röyksopp – Junior
- Silversun Pickups – Swoon
- Metric – Fantasies
- The Legendary Tigerman – Femina
- Passion Pit – Manners
- Atlas Sound – Logos
- Brakes – Touchdown
- Marcelo Camelo – Sou
- Lhasa – Lhasa
- The xx – xx
- Girls – Album
- White Lies – To Lose My Life
- La Roux – La Roux
- Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
- Yuksek – Away From The Sea
- The Horrors – Primary Colours
- dR.estranhoamor – os crimes de dR.estranhoamor e outras estórias
Mag+
This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project
initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on
handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for
digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners
at BERG.
Like I’ve written before, I’m yet to see an example of a tablet design that makes me want to say “I’m buying that!”. One the things that strikes me while watching these videos of gadgets that allow us to consume content is that what they do essentially is replace the handling of the reading experience with metaphors like scrolling the page or turning it. I’m not looking forward for a device that introduces interaction with the reading experience because of only one reason: it will be distracting. That’s what happens when I’m reading an article on a browser, there’s some much stuff going around the content: advertising, links, videos, share buttons, etc., that it makes it hard for me to focus. That’s why I don’t like to read articles on browser, most of the times I just get distracted with something and end up only reading half of it.
So… I’m still looking for something that can blow me away. It doesn’t mean I didn’t like the design proposed in the video, I think it’s very slick, but I don’t see it at as a breakthrough, what they did was just capture the current trends of touch interaction and sticking it on a piece of cardboard. I think future tablets will have to be way more than oversizes iPhones, they will have to bring something that none of the devices where they sit between have today.
(via Nick Fink)
Hand from above
Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.
An experiment using openFrameworks.
(thanks for the heads up Steven 
)
Ataque de Pánico!
I read it’s being turned into a full action movie. Gigantic robots… I like.
