This is a simple remix I made of Chaplin's Great Dictator—a moving piece as it is—with M83's By the Kiss added over it. Enjoy.
The year was 1960. Joe Kittinger, a US Airforce pilot, rode a balloon to the edge of space and jumped. This extraordinary feat was the highest jump ever and made Kittinger the first person to ever break the sound barrier without a craft of some kind. Some would say it technically makes him the first man in space as well.
Thomas Allen carefully cuts out pulp covers, arranges them into his own "plot lines" and photographs them with a shallow depth of field. This is definitely one of those "wish I had thought of it" ideas. So cool.
More images at the Foley Gallery.
Visit Cabello's site for a wealth of cool actionscript experiments.
Apple still leads the pack in innovation and design. No question. But is Jobs' heart still in the right place? Go back 20 years and you might remember what a camaraderie "everyday people" felt with the brand. Now what have you got? DRM iTunes content and $400 iPhones with exclusive AT&T contracts. Makes me long for the days of "thinking different."
Tangerine filters your own iTunes library by beats per minute and beat intensity. As you adjust playlist parameters, a song count lets you know how many different tracks meet that criteria. Me? I have a preference for music in the 100 to 148 BPM range. Try it out for you yourself. The full-function demo is free for 15 days.
Hilarious, yes. But pretty right on from a technical perspective. Best part is that the husband gets to monitor and approve his wife's purchases from another giant computer station in...where is he? Why not keep her hooked up to a chastity monitor at all times? Maybe that came in 2000 A.D.
Last year The Bravery and The Killers battled it out for Indie supremacy. The only two songs anyone ever heard on the radio (does anyone listen to the radio anymore?) were Honest Mistake and Somebody Told Me. Over and over... and over again.
So, the follow-ups had to be bad ass. Now that both bands have thrown their hats in, the winner is... The Bravery, with The Sun and the Moon.
Read my full review here.
Remember this article when the robot armies finally torch through the last layer of steel in our underground strongholds. Read on to scare yourself shitless.
"The results...set the stage for the creation of a
neuromemory chip that could be paired with computer hardware to create
cyborglike machines capable of such tasks as detecting dangerous toxins
in the air, allowing the blind to see or helping someone who is
paralyzed regain some if not all muscle use."
-Scientific American
You may have heard some buzz about Photosynth in the past year, but this video showcases a polished (market-ready?) version. This is one of those tools that gives me hope that technology isn't all about mindless diversion, but that great strides are being made to broaden the learning potential of humankind. Really amazing.
