Archive for January, 2008

Nice interactive timeline of the history of the major browsers.

I really like the columnar design, and the cascade of work below the fold. not to mention the work itself.

Explanation and examples of a number of early photographic developing and presentation techniques.

Audit of 1989's (consumer) vision of 2007. Actually sort of a lot of this stuff has hit the market.

"O in life / Through many dark rooms / We must go" (this version has no drumline but does feature the light-up jean jacket, charmingly in and out of focus).

I think my favorite part is when they spin the little A wheel at the beginning of "aftermath".

Just a warning that very few of these videos so far seem to include all that much music. But they all look incredible.

I like that the consistent color palette helps to tie it all together.

"'The Horror at Red Hook' is set in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn, NY, where Lovecraft lived for a brief time at 169 Clinton Street (from 1924 to 1926)."

"Woke up afraid of my own shadow / Like genuinely afraid"

"Always i carried your heart / Married deep in my own"

Our President's interpretation of the subject of this painting is somewhat at odds with it's historically verifiable context, in a humorously apt way. But this account begs the question (again): what is the place of the viewer in interpretation?

Interesting resource for keeping up on the neighborhood.

A big cylinder launched into space as a platform for experimentation. Experiments happened on its surface, but it itself did not constitute an experiment.

Says what it does, does what it says.

Small group in the back row at the sea lion show at the New York Aquarium.

At one point in the sea lion show, the one active sea lion jumped out of the water and goosed Antarctica.

You can't see this due to the fact that these guys were actually swimming pretty fast, but, no eyes.