Who sang what?
March 22, 2013 § Leave a comment
Sometimes you discover online something that combines two things you love and then you realize that all that procrastination was actually worth it. So for today’s pleasure combo I present to you one three Beatles infographs, charting the instrumentation of all of their songs, in their three phases.
I consider the haircut chart a bonus:
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A girl with colitis goes by…
March 29, 2012 § 4 Comments
In the early days of the web, Am I Right was one of the funniest sites there was: a database of misheard lyrics. The misunderstanding of the psychedelic Beatles lyrics “A girl with kaleidoscope eyes” with the absurdist “A girl with colitis goes by” is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
And now there is a wonderful infograph by direct lyrics, to summarize the most common mistakes. Wasn’t it about time?
By the way, Am I Right has also published a collection of misheard lyrics in Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza: And Other Misheard Lyrics.
See the full infograph after the jump.
Read it elsewhere
April 29, 2011 § Leave a comment
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
The Beatles, more popular than Jesus?
April 26, 2011 § 1 Comment
Songs as books
April 10, 2011 § 4 Comments
These renditions of music albums as books have been going around the web lately:
Which reminded me of these by Little Pixel:
Which in turn reminded me of these posters by Hunting Bears:
This idea just never grows old.
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Read it elsewhere
March 29, 2011 § Leave a comment
Jeff Koons gets the video game treatment, Time Zones get analyzed and religion falls out of fashion:
- Jeff Koons Must Die, the video game – Hunter Jonakin via boingboing
- What if Angry Birds were an action movie directed by Michael Bay (video) – the curious brain
- The fascinating and often absurd convention of Time Zones – BBC
- Rare Beatles photos – npr
- Since Radiohead published a newspaper (The Universal Sigh), Guardian writers are challenging them at their game, by covering Creep – Guardian
- Are symmetrical faces more beautiful? – toxel via holykaw
- 50% of tweets come from 0,05% of users – mashable
- Is religion falling out of fashion? – Discovery news
- Sex is no accident (MTV’s safe sex campaign) – buzzfeed
- This blogger asks his favorite authors to sign their books. The twist? Instead for dedications he asks for insults – insulted by authors via flavorwire
- Read it horizontally, read it vertically; the genius of Lewis Caroll – i love charts
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March 16, 2011 § Leave a comment
The Beatles, Social Media and more Japan aid:
- For mixtape nostalgics: Stereolizer is the app that turns your iPad into an 80’s cassette player – wired
- Etsy users find themselves exposed to world as a result of the new privacy policy – boingboing
- Taking a stand on the McCartney – Lennon feud – Though Catalog
- In other Beatles news Apple files to trademark the old Beatles Apple Logo – patently apple
- Fear of missing out in the social media – caterina.net via swissmiss
- Isn’t that a surprise: poor countries have more digital piracy – boingboing
- Happy people stick together in Twitter (so do the miserable also) – mashable
- The history of web browser (infograph) – bit rebels
- More designers come to the aid of Japan – this is colosal & imprint
The lyrics on the wall
March 3, 2011 § 11 Comments
Well, although I wouldn’t go as far as calling it Music Philosophy, it sure as hell is good Music Typography.
Mike Toledo creates these amazing typographical posters inspired by lyrics from rock songs. Love the colors, love the fonts, love the songs. Especially this one:
See more posters after the jump
The Beatles in the year 3126
February 19, 2011 § 1 Comment
It’s the year 3126. Scientists piece together the scarce evidence of the existence of a mythical band: The Beatles. See what they have to say:
via Kottke
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Please, don’t wake me
February 12, 2011 § 3 Comments
Read it elsewhere
January 28, 2011 § Leave a comment
It’s link time, again.
- Egypt initially blocks Twitter and Facebook and now cuts off all access to internet but Egyptians are still tweeting for freedom –guardian/bbc
- it has happened. During the holidays kindle books outsold paperback books on Amazon – dvice
- 15 free, non-pirate, Hitchcock movies online – openculture
- you already knew that the Martin Luther King “I have a dream” speech was brilliant, but now there is the infogram to prove it – fastcodesign
- apparently you can now earn a degree at The Beatles – ctv
- this, below, is a photograph (of soap bubbles), not an illustration; see more psychedelic images in science – discover