Kubrick’s animated odyssey

When Dr Strangelove and Alex met Lolita and Spartacus. Beautiful animation of Stanley Kubrick‘s full filmography, created by Martin Woutisseth.

See also:

• Etsy finds: Claudia Varosio’s movie posters
• If you watch it backwards
• Cinematic pictographs
• Black Swan: Europe vs US 1-0

A little urban living

Very little, as a matter of fact.

German street artist Evol stencils urban dwellings on various street objects.

We love ourselves some urban art.

via kuriositas 

See also:

• Urban file sharing
• Filling up the gaps
• Taping up the city

I shall not live in vain

Poetry poster created by H-​​57 and First Floor Under.

via Bloodyloud

See also:

• In literature / hidden haikus I have found / unexpectedly
• In their own words
• The Man in the Black Coat
• Poetry after the beep
• Lolita butterflies

Read it elsewhere

While you were getting married:

• Bark Twain and other authors as dogs – shortlist
• The interactive thesaurus of Seattle bands – Seattle band map
• Five bands that should be on Rockband (a hint: Pink Floyd) – joystickdivision
• Free yourself from the hassle of folding the map – design taxi
• Computer mouse evolution – dvice
• Instead of keeping diary, just summarize your day in a smiley figure – lost at E minor
• Who are these people? Abbey Road bystanders – snap galleries
• The wood bike that aspires to break the world record for speed – wired

Clever words

What happens when the Saussurian signifier and signified meet up in the form of a word? Beautiful typography.

Typeplay is a tumblr blog, which plays with words and their meanings creating typographically meaningful words and whose goal is to reach a million words.

See more words after the jump

Playing with reality

What would happen if what people share in their social networks turns real? And best of all, if you could play with that? Well, if you like the idea of the twittersphere becoming a virtual universe, this is for you. Welcome to Tweet Land, the first set of videogames that plays with reality.

This is the teaser of Tweet Land, a video game in development, which will blend reality and fiction, by incorporating users’ real time activity in Twitter into the game’s narrative. This means that every time someone tweets something, these tweets will affect the gameplay of Tweet Land by triggering certain action-keywords.

via Kickstarter

See also:

• The bad guys (in video games)
• Multitask: the game
• A history of videogames

Painting with notes

When notes are not just notes, but have a life of their own. Music Painting, created by Alice Ninni, is a beautiful animation video of the song “Lacrime de Giulietta” by Italian composer Matteo Negrin.

via Laughing Squid

See also:

• Barcodes as notes
• Touch music again
• Musical attack
• What Pi sounds like?
• An empty school comes to life

You’re a comic sans criminal

This is an intervention for comics sans addicts. We’ve had enough.

link: comic sans criminal

See also:

• The joke is on Helvetica
• You type, they design
• 10 + 1 ways to visualize lyrics

Taping up the city

Geometrical forms, cubes, triangles, bricks, all made by tape. Yes, tape, the one you use to seal boxes and to roll up things. But this time in a variety of colors and shapes. New York-based artist Aakash Nihalani uses tape to create new shapes and spaces inside the existing urban landscape, by ‘connecting the dots quite differently from what we are used to in order to fill in our picture of the city’.

See more after the jump

Two amazing, retro accessories for the iPhone

Granted, these are only concepts. But still they are impressive.

First there is the Leica camera body and lens for the iPhone by Los Angeles-based consultancy Black Design Associates, LLC. It will be the accessory that will transform the iPhone to a full fledged Leica camera. With such a pedigree, hell, I might even jump on the instagram bandwagon.

Then there is the iPhone turntable by designer Olivier Meynard. Not only does it play vinyl records, but it also adds them to your charging iPhone as mp3s. Pretty amazing, huh?

Product design that gives true meaning to the retro-futuristic trend.

via core77 and Yanko design 

See also:

• Barcodes as notes
• Touch music again
• Time put to words

Etsy finds: Claudia Varosio’s movie posters

This shop is a true find for the cinephiles. Claudia Varosio creates custom posters for some of cinema’s most iconic movies.

Minimal, wonderfully designed and coloured, these posters vary from the conceptual to the whimsical.

Also of note are Claudia’s series of cut-out paper dolls: the dude, Margot Tenenbaum, David Bowie and other surprising personalities.

The fleeting moment of television

You have to be of a certain age to really appreciate this.

Stephan Tillmans is a German photographer that captures tube televisions at the moment they shut down. Just for a few seconds the tv signal disintegrates into abstract shapes and colors before it dies completely. That flitting moment is captured in this series of photos that celebrate geometry, abstraction and light; but are also permeated by a melancholic feeling of an imminent end.

via quisologies 

See also:

• Cinemagraphs: the art of the animated gif
• Northern lights, WiFi lights
• Dogs left in cars

Read it elsewhere

Around the web in 9 links:

• Understanding Shakespeare through brain scans – boingboing
• What are Spomeniks? – core77
• Writer lose their virginity – the hairpin
• If aliens try to speak to us there will be no one to hear them: SETI shuts down – mercury news
• The last remaining typewriter manufacturer shuts down, too – dvice
• What’s a tittle? A peen? A petrichor? – buzzfeed
• The bench that tweets – yanko design
• The birth of a word – TED talks on youtube
• YouTube drawings (stars, views and all) – without you baby via quipsologies

The Beatles, more popular than Jesus?

Since there is not another band or musician that can challenge the popularity of the Beatles, the only one who can is Jesus.

So, which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity?

via Daily Infographic

See also:

• Please, don’t wake me
• The Beatles in the year 3126
• The meta-infograph
• The lyrics on the wall

Song of the week

Face In The Crowd by Cat’s Eyes

The story of Christ by Dr. Seuss

By the Kids in the Hall (god, I used to love that show).

via boingboing 

See also:

• Angry Birds do Libya
• π vs τ
• A tale of twins (or how to explain relativity theory)

Nothing is impossible

Well, it seems that some things are impossible. Impossible Art Ideas blog is an archive of impossible art ideas, created by Jason Lazarus in order to collect art ideas that are impossible to materialize. Everyone can submit a crazy idea and Lazarus will then select a few to visualize into a slideshow, wallpaper or even to create text clouds.

What is yours?

Read it elsewhere

Mainly infographs on this set of quick links:

• The great toilet paper debate (infograph) – buzzfeed
• This kind of video is not my cup of tea, but this one is really incredible: skiers jump off a cliff to escape an avalanche (video) – youtube
• How to chart roads on Google Maps – GOOD.is
• MoMA, you call yourself a museum? – Alltop
• Interactive tweet topic infograph - Tweet topic explorer
• 10 consistent songwriters – flavorwire
• Infographs created in physical space – geekosystem

Do it like Shakespeare

It happens to all of us, who struggle with words to express our thoughts verbally, with every single writer’s block. Or at least, it happens to me quite often. But to William Shakespeare? But his two good friends, Romeo and Juliet, help him to overcome it.

Animated short film by Jerusalem-based animator Anna Cohen.

via Brain Pickings

See also:

• Writer’s block
• The physical act of writing
• In their own words

Lolita butterflies

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta; the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

She was Lo, plain Lo in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Beautiful hand-illustrated butterflies by legendary author and amateur entomologist Vladimir Nabokov on copies of his masterpiece Lolita. Today would be his birthday. April 22nd.

 

via flavorwire

See also:

• Write like Kafka
• What should I read?
• The physical act of writing