Pixelstick

Here's another, but curiously similar, way of making pictures.

Alternative use for all the typewriters

The artist who makes pictures with a typewriter, BBC video.

It's been done before, but I think she is good at it, I like the pictures. (I wish they'd put in bigger versions outside the video.)
I find it a bit impressive that she does it "free hand" so to speak. She does not sketch up beforehand where everything goes.
Heh, one of her best machines, takes double-sized paper (A3), she got for about two Pounds!

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Get Daria for a song

A decade old, “Daria” ran on MTV, but don’t hold that against it, it’s lightyears ahead. Funny, satiric, intelligent.

It only came out on DVD around 3 years ago, due to fan pressure.
I bought the whole box merely on merit of Amazon reviews. Haven’t regretted it, and I've watched it all two or three times.  If you like subtle and funny animation for adults, I recommend it.
It was cheap too, less than fifty bucks for a handful of seasons. Eight DVDs, including two movies which came after the series, but stayed in continuity.

… hokey smoke, it’s down to 22 bucks! Unbelievable.

Daria's kid sister Quinn in a Charlie's Angels fantasy moment.

Javier Perez art

[Thanks to Bert]

Javier Perez art.
I love the wimsicalness. It's surprisingly rare.
Children have it more often. But they usually don't have the experience or attention span to make real art projects.
Update: ... ooh, and what do I find:

"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." -- Norman Podhoretz

Exceptional cars

Eceptional Cars collection.
Beautiful stuff here.

A vertical forest is growing in the middle of one of europe’s dirtiest cities

A vertical forest is growing in the middle of one of europe’s dirtiest cities, article.

The "forest" is on the outside of an apartment building, and it's almost done.

I'ts a bit risky, I think. It will take a lot of maintenance to stop the trees overgrowing their small boxes and turn the whold shebang into slum, cocooned in green monoliths (Duoliths?).
Sure, they are taking measure, but I've just seen a picture of a tree growing up through a boulder. Never underestimate the power of nature.

Commercialism (updated)

Update:
John K pointed to this commercial. I think an example of how wrong things can go on this slope.    :-)  I just know I'll have nightmares about the line "Camera ciao, picture wow!"...


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Recently, and I don't know if this happens in the US too, I see several big movie stars in commercials. People like Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Bacon, Bruce Willis, and Natalie Portman. People I find it hard to believe are hard up for money.

It leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, what do you think? Seems to me that through their creative work, they have earned a sizeable amount of respect and affection amongst the public, and now they are selling out of this affection for money to help some company sell more of a product they probably don't care about. And if they care, I don't think they would do it without the money.

It seems a bit like prostitution. Taking money for showing affection which is not there.
Does Natalie really think one perfume is significantly better or more important than another?

Or does Kevin think EE (4G phone provider) is way above the rest? He doesn't even live in this country, UK, so I doubt he's a customer of theirs.

Pressing metal (updated)

Bert send me this cool animated GIF of a machine making chains. Lovely, simple, very effective.

I am always amazed at how they can just press metal into shape. Apple today showed a video of the making of the upcoming new Mac Pro. If you like technology, the keynote presentation is worth it just for that. It starts with a big circular chunk of aluminium being put into a shaped hole. Then a shaped thing comes from above, and in a second simply presses the chunk into the cylinder it needs to be. Holy moly, what force!
It's a short video, starting at about 37 minutes into the keynote.

Update: 
... And that's just the relatively soft aluminium, they can also do it with steel:



The force applied is 800 tons, about two fully loaded jumbo jets!

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2013

The best of the best. Don't try this at home.

Apple Keynote

Here's my post with thoughts about today's Apple Keynote. (New iPads and various other stuff.)

Community La Biblioteca Spanish Rap

This is from the end of the second episode of Community (good stuff).  I just knew somebody would have put it on Ytube, it's so funny and brilliant.
It was barred from embedding, so go here.
(Any body knows what "buei! buei! at the end means?)

Get an impression of the size of the GM1

Finally after five years, they pushed the techonology to be able to do this.
There was also talk about in the beginning that people didn't want the cameras too small. I don't know who those people were. Grandfathers and hulky professional press photographers?
Actually one press photographer got famous by shooting with very compact cameras, and this was years ago, before they got good. He had to carry a couple because they are not so durable in war zones, but he found he could get a lot closer to people and be more inconspicuous with the small cameras.
Of with this color, it won't be very inconspicuous. But it won't be taken seriously, which can be good, you're not seen as a threat.