The HAL 9000 - Get one today!

The future of computing – today! Cool look at the influence of the movie 2001 in advertising. (See that shit when you’re five, trust, you’ll need therapy for the chimp scene alone.)

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Back in my day we had dinosaurs, and we liked it.

Alternate histories created with dinosaurs. (Via.)

Amerika the beautiful.

These Americans is another great time waste on Facebook focusing on the way we weren’t.

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Be the next Dre

Or be the next you. Whichever. Wheels of Steel = epic dj remix madness. Click to ad a song to the turntables and off ya go.

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No dessert until you finish your masterpiece.

Yeah, well, let’s see if she can pull off abstract expressionism with an Etch A Sketch, then we’ll talk. There’s a comment to this piece on art phenom Aelita Andre though that sums up a bigger problem. Whether it has everything to do with God-given ability or artist parents who nuture kids, the way students are exposed to creativity in schools these days is still lacking. That said, forget her art for a second and notice how confident she is as she creates here. Amazing.

“There are many children that age who have a natural artistic sensibility. Our education system does not nurture artistic sensibility so it often gets weeded out over years in the system. Her parents are both artists so they have been nurturing her from birth. In other words, if someone paid attention long enough (and had an eye for it) you'd probably see more artistic talents emerge at an earlier age. Perhaps not to the extent of little Aelita here, but then who knows?” – CarlaMusic

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Hemingway’s Moleskin.

AND OTHERS. “I intend to travel and write.” (And, oh, by the way, maybe end it all too.”) I ADDED THAT PART. Check out the other wild physician-like scratchings of 20 famous dudes who you’re not.

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Coenfographic mania!

While I never dug The Ladykillers, I would be considered as they say, a serious Coen brothers fan. And fans dig stuff like this infographic of all their movies and awards, courtesy of Tom Muller. RIGHT?

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The arty side of Snowpocalypse.

SEE IT FOR THE DOG ALONE! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. I’d give this idiot an Oscar. Why not?

Facebook’s arty side.

This visualization of Facebook’s friend connections is bee-u-tee-ful, no doubt. Visualization based on paths between two set points doesn’t leave much to chance as you know what to expect, but this is still compelling when you see it close up. As Facebook intern Paul Butler describes his pet project:

“It’s not just a pretty picture, it’s a reaffirmation of the impact we have in connecting people, even across oceans and borders.”

BMW wants you to stare into the sun.

Sorta. AFTER IMAGE EFFECT IS THE NEW SUBLIMINAL SUGGESTION. Replicating the moments after you look at the sun and close your eyes, they flash a logo, then when you close your eyes later, it appears and fades from view. Of course, a lot of it also exploits the rods and cones rushing round in response to light-dark stimuli, but that doesn’t make for sexy ad action where dreams live and logos fade. Now, don’t you feel targeted, as a group?

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200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes.

Check out this compelling BBC visualization with Hans Rosling of how far most of the countries in the world have come – or not come in 200 years, both in terms of wealth and population.

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Where the wild Post-It Notes are.

I really gotta step up my doodling game. John Kenn channels the classic children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. If, Sendak ever took it out on Post-It Notes. Amazing.

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“Simultaneously the most innovative and useless thing I've seen in days.”

So sayeth the IT flock. Actually, it’s a good point after I saw the classic video game Defender reprogrammed as a favicon. Legibility issues aside, I can’t get past the coolness of it though. Who pays attention to favicons, and if they do, even think of them as anything more than a static mini logo? Maybe it’s the *perceived* coolness of it, where I start to think of all the applications for something like this, yet can’t really think of one practical use. But, that’s what happens: Along comes an agency or brand and throws a mini animation in there and creates a new ad channel. 16 x 16 is the new...

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Why so jumpy.

8:08 of damn, from Storm Freerunning. Digging the Ferris Bueller moment at 1:39.

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A life well poked.

What’s good for the Google is good for... Facebook. Here’s a different take on interface as life narrative by Maxime Luère. The only nitpick about this is the FF >> to the end of life, when the earlier build-up was based around a more normal dating timeline. Tends to make the experience feel a little less realistic, even though it is a fantasy. Besides, everyone knows the world ends in 2012. Nice to see Facebook will look the same in 50 years.

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To fight vulgarity.

He’s Massimo Vignelli and you’re not in this short but quote-laden doc on his approach to design.

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Be happy.

I just wanted to put a smile on your face. If Muslim Magomaev’s Because you love me doesn’t, you ain’t livin. That’s real authentic editing, SOVIET STYLE. On the one, comrade.

Just live it.

Cool experiment for Nike where various runners were given shoes and told to create a piece of art that “challenged the function of the shoes, using sport as an inspiration.” Editing together shots from all over Europe, Jim Campbel faked a running effect in front of the camera and synched the rhythm to an edit of Peaches’ Do Ya. The spirit of the piece lives in the swapped tagline Live.

“A long time ago in a camera far, far away....”

Forgive my abstractness here, but the coolest part of anything? Is seeing it in a new light. Duh. Like the series of behind the scenes shots out for Star Wars freaks to drool over. For the few who don’t have the classic opening sequence etched into their brains like a bad Caruso throws shades on CSI intro, seeing how they filmed it in the most basic way enhances the memories for those who do. Cool stuff, as they say. Or mindnumbingly simple in an After Effects world.

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Opulent forest starburst love – I HAS IT!

With Mel Gibson and Oksana showing the ways in which true love can come to a grinding, festering, and very public halt, it’s easy to forget how it all starts for people in love. It’s in this spirit that I think you deserve a little wedding video awesomeness in your life. Something to make you feel better about your special day, whenever that was – or may be. How do you even bring up this theme with the happy couple ahead of time?

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