Periodic table of rejected elements, including Belgium,
Periodic table of rejected elements, including Belgium, Antipathy, Visine, and Antigone. (via del.icio.us via kottke.org 8 years ago (it’s the time of year for recycled links, I guess))
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In a map of the Republik van
In a map of the Republik van Nieuw Nederland, Paul Burgess imagines that the Dutch never gave up their New World possessions and a republic formed centered around New Amsterdam.
New Amsterdam never gave way to New York. The Dutch kept the whole of their North American colony out of the hands of the perfidious English, in fact. New Netherland today constitutes a thriving Republic stretching from the Atlantic coast to Quebec, dividing New England from the rest of the United States.
See also Melissa Gould’s map of Neu York, which imagines Manhattan as a post-WWII Nazi possession.
Rebecca Mead on young composer Nico Muhly
Rebecca Mead on young composer Nico Muhly in the New Yorker.
When Muhly composes, the last thing he thinks about is the actual notes that musicians will play. He begins with books and documents, YouTube videos and illuminated manuscripts. He meditates on this material, digesting its ironies and appreciating its aesthetics. Meanwhile, he devises an emotional scheme for the piece-the journey on which he intends to lead his listener. Muhly believes that some composers of new music rely too heavily on program notes to give their work a coherence that it might lack in the actual listening. “This stupid conceptual stuff where it’s, like, ‘I was really inspired by, like, Morse Code and the AIDS crisis,’” he says.
A sampling (no pun intended) of Muhly’s music is available on the New Yorker site and on his personal site (which seems to be in a similar vein to The Believer and McSweeney’s Store, design-wise).
Guitar Zero is a band that has
Guitar Zero is a band that has repurposed the Guitar Hero game controllers to make real music with them. Even better: they’ve posted the instructions so you can make your own. (thx, nick)
The last part of this video featuring
The last part of this video featuring Conan O’Brien singing The Beastie Boys’ Sabotage as Edith Bunker from All in the Family makes me laugh over and over and over.
David Lynch does an iPhone commercial, not really. (via andre)
David Lynch does an iPhone commercial, not really. (via andre)
Cherry Blossoms is a project by Alyssa
Cherry Blossoms is a project by Alyssa Wright:
Cherry Blossoms is a backpack that uses a small microcontroller and a GPS unit. Recent news of bombings in Iraq are downloaded to the unit every night, and their relative location to the center of the city are superimposed on a map of Boston. If the wearer walks in a space in Boston that correlates to a site of violence in Baghdad, the backpack detonates and releases a compressed air cloud of confetti, looking for all the world like smoke and shrapnel. Each piece of confetti is inscribed with the name of a civilian who died in the war, and the circumstances of their death.
Video compilation of the brightest frame from 1500
Video compilation of the brightest frame from 1500 different movie explosions. Turn up the sound for this one.
Video of Peter Sellers reciting The Beatles
Video of Peter Sellers reciting The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night in the style of Laurence Olivier doing Shakespeare’s Richard III. Got all that? (via cyn-c)
Wow, The Simpsons did a parody of
Wow, The Simpsons did a parody of Noah Kalina’s Everyday video. Noah, you just graduated summa cum laude from Pop Culture University.
Update: But apparently the background music was used without permission.
A few months back a producer from the Simpsons contacted Carly about using her song ‘everyday’ for an upcoming episode in which they were going to parody my video. She was negotiating a rate for the song, until they never got back to her. No fee was agreed on, no contracts signed.
Maybe they decided since it was parody they didn’t need permission? I don’t find that likely since what little I know about Hollywood/TV is that they’re really concerned about clearing rights. (thx, slava)
Update: The song rights mixup was an accidental oversight and is currently being corrected.
Yasumasa Morimura takes photos of himself recreating
Yasumasa Morimura takes photos of himself recreating iconic photos like Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder and Che Guevara. A bit of Cindy Sherman + these photos + maybe even a little Be Kind Rewind. At Luhring Augustine in NYC until Dec 22. (thx, tony)
Tobias Wong has made a slick all-black
Tobias Wong has made a slick all-black iPhone called the ccPhone. It comes preloaded with videos, photos, music, and the company address book of Citizen:Citizen, the company selling it. Available as a limited edition of 50, each phone is $2000. Another of Wong’s projects that I really like is the Tiffany diamond solitaire engagement ring with the diamond turned upside down so the point sticks out (possibly for slashing attackers). A nice play on the marital security that an engagement ring offers the wearer. (via core77)
A plot of Japan’s Phillips curve (“a
A plot of Japan’s Phillips curve (“a historical inverse relation and tradeoff between the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation in an economy”) looks like Japan itself.
Joel pointed to these iconic photographs of
Joel pointed to these iconic photographs of the 20th century duplicated with the elderly as the subjects last week. See also: iconic photographs recreated with Legos. I remember another set of photo recreations that I can’t seem to find…famous historical events as if they happened in a video game. Anyone recall seeing something like that?
Update: Screenshots is what I was looking for. (thx, rumsey)
3x3 video mashup call and response old
3x3 video mashup call and response old commercial row row row your boat. Oh, just go watch it, it’s cool, especially if you like The Clapper and Christian Marclay. (via waxy, from whom I’m detecting signs of life re: his blog)
The fake subtitles for this movie clip
The fake subtitles for this movie clip make it seem as though Adolf Hitler is banned from playing iSketch, an online drawing game like Pictionary.
I just got my new Wacom! I have the stylus right here! This tablet has more than 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity!
My Fuhrer, iSketch doesn’t support pressure sensitivity!
FUCK YOU! It does if I say so!!
Hilarious. (via conscientious)
Update: There are quite a few different Hitler/subtitle mashups on YouTube. This one about him being banned from XBox Live is the most popular one but this one about his car being stolen predates it. The iSketch one is still the best one, I think. (thx, everyone)
Dozens of stills from The Simpsons that
Dozens of stills from The Simpsons that make references to famous scenes in movies.
These half-n-half celebrity face mashups are unsettling. “
These half-n-half celebrity face mashups are unsettling. “The right half of a face has to be from one celebrity and the left half from another.” The Bill/Hillary and the Cruise/Holmes ones are especially good.
The ending of the Harry Potter series
The ending of the Harry Potter series written in the style of the ending of The Sopranos.
This is brilliant: the weird video of
This is brilliant: the weird video of Dick Cheney lurking in the bushes during a press conference at the White House with Radiohead’s Creep playing over it. “I want you to notice when I’m not around….” (via cyn-c)
Rollercoaster version of the graph of US
Rollercoaster version of the graph of US home prices adjusted for inflation…you basically ride the curve of the graph. Brilliant…I want to ride all the graphs I come across! (via is it real or is it magnetbox)
Artist Christian Marclay says that Apple contacted
Artist Christian Marclay says that Apple contacted him about using his short film Telephones for their iPhone commercial. He refused and they went ahead and made the commercial using the same idea with different footage. Says Marclay, “the way they dealt with the whole thing is pretty sleazy”. TouchExplode gets credit for spotting the reference. (via df)
Museumr lets you insert one of your
Museumr lets you insert one of your Flickr photos into a museum (sort of). I gave my beer bottle-shaped sausage photo the Museumr treatment. (thx, chuck)
50 50 is a compilation of 50 videos of people
50 50 is a compilation of 50 videos of people singing 50 Cent songs.
(via your daily awesome)
Best animated gif ever
The best animated gif ever created, I reckon. A tour de force. (thx, alaina)
Beatboxing flautist + Super Mario theme song = YouTube gold.
Beatboxing flautist + Super Mario theme song = YouTube gold.
Ikea Hacker is a site that highlights
Ikea Hacker is a site that highlights using Ikea furniture and products in creative ways.
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