Apple takes another stab at Microsoft ads
James was so proud when the Microsoft ads came out with people finding the best PC for them. I thought the ads were lame, this however is brilliant.
Blame Ringo band (website) concept
This website is flipping inovative! The best band website I have come across, by far. First off awesome name for a band (I love Ringo and have a Zebra Finch named Strakey after him), fantastic concept for using the name as a website, and omgosh it scrolls sideways!
Love your work Sir Mano.
Twitter on Paper!
Today I recieved my Twitter on Paper! Well Twitter by JPG as it was, because I live outside the USA and I couldn’t have one mailed. You can read more about the cool project at top.sampottsinc.com, but you’ve missed the deadline (first at least) to get your own.
LOLs at Gus
My friend Poppy Gallico’s cross-eyed cat, Gus. Who might not like plants, but always wants to eat me when I see him.
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity
- Aldous Huxley 1927
Discussed in Lawrence Lessig’s lecture “Getting the Network the World Needs” (2009).
Skin art
Google Wants Artists to Work For Free, Is it Wrong?
Article on Mashable, which has got me thinking about how I should take up designing skins as a hobby. I quite enjoyed doing this rather quick job on the Coastalwatch twitter.