Things to See

Compfight

31 January 2011

An alternate way for searching images on Flickr. Works with Creative Commons.

Tags: software

Kids vs. Old-School Technology

29 January 2011

What happens when you give kids a floppy, a vinyl record or a gameboy. Do they know what these things are or what to do with them? Great video showing how fast technology ages.

Tags: technology

Spam Plants

26 January 2011

A great collection of generative plants made from characters found in spam messages.

Tags: generative design

Mothereffing HSL

06 January 2011

A web-based HSL/HSLA color picker. A good tool to pick HSL colors for your next CSS3 project.

Tags: css3

Space Jam

30 December 2010

The website for the movie Space Jam is still online and hasn’t changed since 1996. Frames, animated gifs, backgrounds with way too much noise. Almost forgot what the web looked like in those days.

Tags: web design

Life as Annual Report

14 December 2010

Nicholas Felton tracks his daily life and creates an annual report from that data. In this video he explains the how and why of his project.

Tags: data vizualisation, graphic design

John Grade

13 December 2010

Great sculptures by John Grade, an artist from Seatle. Love his work.

Tags: art, sculpture

Kim Jong-il Looking at Things

09 December 2010

Title says it all. A collection of pictures of Kim Jong-il looking at things. With funny captions.

Tags: humor, photography

Metropolis 2

25 November 2010

A big kinetic sculpture by Chris Burden built with 1200 toy cars. It makes a lot of noise but you could watch this piece of art all day.

Tags: art, sculpture

Wearable Geometry

18 November 2010

A series of dresses made of geometric 3D forms. Math meets fashion in an interesting way.

Tags: fashion, math

MobileCooking App

17 November 2010

A stupid idea to transform your iPad into a kitchen appliance. Made me laugh.

Tags: interface design, ipad

Interactive Fabrication

17 November 2010

A website with a focus on exploring new interfaces for digital fabrication. Really like the Shaper and Trace Modeler.

Tags: digital fabrication, interaction design