Friend or Faux has moved

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:56:15 -0700

Join me over at: friendfaux.blogspot.com

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The Great Dictator—M83 Remix

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:11:52 -0700

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 Great Dictator - M83 remix

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Joe Kittinger: First to break sound barrier in a free fall

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:11:31 -0800

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.

Joe_Kittinger_parachutes_from_102800ft

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Thomas Allen's Uncovered: 3D pulp fiction

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:24:20 -0700

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.

Thomas_allen_maneater

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Ricardo Cabello: Actionscript ninja

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:17:26 -0700

I found this designer using the StumbleUpon Firefox plugin. His homepage doesn't say much, other than he's a "London-based designer and developer." He could be famous for all I know, but one thing is certain: this work is incredible. If you haven't already, manipulate the droplets by moving your cursor over them. The effect is mesmerizing.

Visit Cabello's site for a wealth of cool actionscript experiments.

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Soulless French magnate disillusions grandson in Apple ad from 1989

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:49:16 -0700

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."

Apple_Spot_France

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Create playlists by BPM with Tangerine

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:19:18 -0700

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.

Tangerine_dialogue

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A glimpse of eCommerce - 1967 style

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:14:31 -0700

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.

Shopping in 1999

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The Bravery vs. The Killers: A battle royale for Indie supremacy

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:03:46 -0700

The Sun And The Moon

Sam's Town

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.

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Cultured neurons: Growing the world's first living memory chip

nobody@vox.com(Fauxtog) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:36:32 -0700

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

I have seen things you could not imagine.

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