November 2008
24 posts
WINDOW SNAKE = AMAZING! →
This is seriously brilliant, check it out… and don’t forget to turn off your pop-up blocker.
HARDCORE →
I DARE YOU TO CLICK THIS LINK. Apologies in advance if this crashes your browser.
THE "BROKEN WINDOWS" THEORY HAS BEEN PROVEN... →
In one experiment, a temporary fence was used to close off a short cut to a car park, except for a narrow gap. Two signs were erected, one telling people there was no throughway and the other saying that bicycles must not be left locked to the fence. In the “order” condition (with four bicycles parked nearby, but not locked to the fence) 27% of people were prepared to trespass by stepping through...
COLORFLIP →
by Rafaël Rozendaal, collection of Sébastien de Ganay
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LET ME GOOGLE THAT FOR YOU →
Best usage of this snotty meme yet.
VIDEO OF HERMAN'S HOUSE →
THE HOUSE THAT HERMAN BUILT →
For over thirty-six years Herman Joshua Wallace has been in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Solitary Confinement, or Closed Cell Restriction (CCR) at Angola consists of spending a minimum of 23 hours a day in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell. In 2003 the activist/artist Jackie Sumell asked Herman a very simple question: “What kind of house does a man who has...
OBAMA DOES NOT DISAPPOINT →
This is exactly what i was hoping he would do - Computerside chats!!!
ONCE A WAL-MART →
The New Lives Of Big Boxes
D.V.D. →
D.V.D. is Itoken + jimanica + Ymg. A new type of trio presenting organic and mechanical music, consisting of a drums duo (Itoken and Jimanica) and geometrical pop images by visual artist, Yamaguchi Takashi (ymg). Their interactive “live installation,” in which two sets of drums control images and the said images play music through a synchronization of the instruments and images, has been...
THE USES OF ADVERSITY →
new Gladwell New Yorker article.
WATCH YOUR CARABINER →
UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
RICHARD REYNOLDS MINI DOCUMENTARY →
Mini-documentary of London’s guerrilla gardener and author Richard Reynolds