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May 24, 2011 Bad Lip Reading: Meta-Viral Video Phenomenon

by Anne Ishii

This is simply amazing. Someone is taking popular music videos, then changing the lyrics of the song to sync with the movement of the singer's lips. [Hence the moniker "Bad Lip Reading."] From Douglas Wolk coverage of the phenomenon: BLR first came to prominence with "Gang Fight," a riff on Rebecca Black's inescapable quasi-hit "Friday" that...

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May 20, 2011 Image search “Frans Masereel” and forget you hate the Internet

by Chibi

I don't understand Catalan but I love & Piscolabis Librorum for its scans of amazing books, for instance Frans Masereel's The Sun. See also Masereel's City here. Thank you, Internet....

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May 20, 2011 VW Camper Van Tent

by kevin

The Volkswagen Camper Van Tent. If you love music, mud and Mother Nature you're probably heading to a camp site at some point this summer. But why take shelter in some dull, conventional tent when you can recreate the Summer of Love in the hippie-tastic VW Camper Van Tent. ...

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May 20, 2011 Skate Tokyo

by Chibi

OK, this is not super new but it may be the coolest skate-related thing I've seen come out of Japan since the Nakano Sun Plaza candle made out of skateboard wax: ...

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May 20, 2011 “How Target Hyped Its Campaign for Missoni”

by Anne Ishii

via Apartment Therapy. Start a Whisper Campaign Set Up of Social Media Explosion Hold Back Photos Until It's Time. Me personally: excited to see not whether, but how a wholly independent family luxury name fares in a mass-merchandise retailer. ...

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May 19, 2011 Class of 2011: Create a Job to Keep a Job

by kevin

Our generation's future is headed on a one-way trip down the toilet -- that is, unless we do something fast. This year's graduating class faces the most college debt in history, mass layoffs on a regular basis, and, let us not forget that only 1 out of 4 college seniors will have jobs upon graduation this...

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May 19, 2011 Embossed Portraits on Aluminum Trays

by kevin

Profiles is a project by Israeli-based designer Idan Friedman. He embosses portraits on aluminium throw-away trays. You can view more of his work here Via Today and Tomorrow ...

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May 17, 2011 Are they Students or are they Learners?

by kevin

A while back I spent the day working with a group of about 150 educators who’d been brought together by one of their state’s regional service centers. I fine it a particularly cruel thing to do, forcing a group of adults to spend six-hours paying attention to one person. So on this day, I decided...

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May 17, 2011 ZeroTouch: The Invisible Touch Screen

by kevin

A project, two years in the making, was revealed this week at the Computer Human Interaction conference in B.C. The device created by students from Texas A&M University is called ZeroTouch and looks like an empty picture frame. Don’t let the looks deceive you, though. It is equipped with infrared sensors and embedded LEDs which...

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May 16, 2011 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto: Summvs times

by Chibi

[caption id="attachment_2536" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="May 15, 2011, after the London show (from summvs.blogspot.com)"][/caption] Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai) is keeping a simple blog with photos and low-res videos of his current S tour with Ryuichi Sakamoto at summvs.blogspot.com. Noto and Sakamoto's new album, Summvs, is reportedly their last together. If you're unfamiliar with their collaborations, you might...