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Be Cool

by | May 3, 2009 | aesthetics, cool, media, movies, music

Eclectic Method – The Tarantino Mixtape from Eclectic Method on Vimeo. I’m amazed that it’s possible to be more meta than a Quentin Tarantino film. If for some reason you thought that Tarantino’s movies dragged or could have used faster...

If it Doesn’t Work, Burn it

by | May 1, 2009 | art, books, cool, culture

Take some practical tips about writing by the illustrious Mark Twain. The secret is to share your work with a large cross section of people (listed one by one in this video), then, if a book fails to please, burn it. For some reason this video is also narrarated by...

Information Nintendo

by | Apr 30, 2009 | cool, culture, media

Wow. If you like Nintendo and public transit you must see this video about subways. ExciteBike references, among many other old school NES games abound in this informative video about world transport systems. (via...

Auto-Tune the News

by | Apr 28, 2009 | cool, media, news

Somehow makes Katie Kouric more bearable. I love how terribly done the green screen effects are also. If you watch only one remix of news clips this week, let this be the one! (via Jordan Harper)

Fucking Hipsters

by | Apr 24, 2009 | culture, humor, photography

Though tumblr has more than it’s share of hipsters (see thundrrr and hrrrthrrr ), look at this fucking hipster is an entire tumblog devoted to pictures of hipsters. (via Allen099)

Twitter Smitter

by | Apr 23, 2009 | internet, Twitter

A few weeks ago I wrote about seeing Geoff Manaugh speak. I noted Geoff’s excellent defense of Twitter as a medium and utter confusion at its critics. Jason Kottke’s In defense of Twitter published today with a link to Manaugh’s own post both carry...

The Twitter Spread

by | Apr 22, 2009 | cool, culture, internet, Twitter

Spreadtweet is a Twitter application that mimics the design of a spreadsheet. My first reaction was “whahuh? Why?” Then I realized that unlike most of the rest of the civilized world I do not work in an office full of prying eyes. So for all you...

Wolf and Pig

by | Apr 17, 2009 | art, cool, internet, media, movies, photography

This video really illustrates the line between a photograph and motion pictures — a line of topical interest to me. There’s a magical wonder that happens with an object in motion. Even with the jerkiness of the low fps our mind wants to believe that there...