The age-old question, “do you dream in color,” which usually pigeonholes the respondent as either artistic and creative or boring and mundane, could be moot. Of course I always answer “color,” (or “colour” if I’m talking to foreigners) just because I have very vivid dreams and I’m pretty sure I would have noticed if they [...]
John Maeda recently opened a new exhibit in NYC based around the topic of food. The work is currently being displated at the Cristinerose Gallery, which also hosted Maeda’s last big show, Post Digital, in 2000. I was interested to see what the critical response was to his newest stuff (which I find much [...]
Justin Quinnell’s pinhole photographs beg the question: what would life be like if you were a tiny person living inside someone’s mouth? By shoving an entire self-engineered camera into his mouth, and taking pictures throughout his day, he gives us a slide show that answers all of your intra-mouth life questions. [via b3ta]
Justin Quinnell: A [...]
I often buy aged New Yorkers and Life Magazines in order to peep at the cultural backdrop of my ancestors. The imagery, style, language, and beliefs that exist in a cigarette ad from 1950 are proof of our evolution (or, god were they stupid back then).
The Yesterday Paper company is trying to capitalize on my [...]
As part of their new Live campaign, Vodaphone is offering some interesting multimedia tools. One of which is a web gallery for picture messages sent from mobile devices. It appears that the current gallery consists of Vodafone sales reps taking them at various stores in England, but it could very easily turn into a hot [...]
In light of current events, I couldn’t resist… daypopdex.com.
Of course, the question everyone is asking: when is someone going to build a meta weblog index index? It appears that dexdex.com is taken, but metadex is still available. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
We’ll all mourn the loss of one of the world’s beautiful voices. Mary Hansen, backup vocalist for Stereolab was just killed in a bike accident.
Design, buy and sell your own pixel-perfect t-shirts at pixeltees.com. Quite an impressive assortment of geek-chic styles (and just in time for Christmas!) [via k10k]
Open University psychologist Dr. Adam Joinson finds that gender stereotypes are being played out on the information superhighway:
“As information has become such a valuable commodity, it’s not surprising that men have transferred their traditional hunter-gatherer role to hunting for information on the web”
BBC: Sexism ‘rife’ in cyberspace
Tell me it isn’t true: The New York City Anti-Hipster Forum!
In case you’re wondering, this is a blog about how much I (and I suspect many many others) despise New York City’s so-called “Hipsters” and everything they generally stand for. Now, before I begin, let me make a few things very clear: Number One, this [...]