High Delivery

2006-04-10
High Delivery by Ferry Halim High Delivery.
An Orisinal flash game. By Ferry Halim.Music: Children of Beslan by Steven Cravis.

Play and listen also:

Flowers. Music: Our Love Never Dies by Ernesto Cortazar.

The Way Home. Music: Bedtime for Little John by Michael Dulin (from Atmospheres, 2003).

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Categories : animation, music

Only say things that can be heard

2006-04-09

“Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
Don’t assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance.
And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one, until you can show it isn’t you.”.

(Joao Miranda from Assume Stupidity Not Malice in Meatball Wiki)

“You want to communicate your ideas. You want to be heard, preferably understood, and most preferably agreed with.
It doesn’t work. No matter how you try, they just dont’t get it.
Practice saying only those things that the people around you can hear.”.

(Michael Hill in Only Say Things That Can Be Heard)

Categories : psychology

The Brompton Bike

2006-04-08
Brompton bike “Once parked the Brompton stands on its own leaving both hands free. There are three main parts to fold and it takes just ten to twenty seconds.
When folded, a Brompton stays locked together automatically.

Vulnerable parts like lights and cable-runs are out of harm’s way, and because the chain and gears are inside there’s no worry about getting grease on your (or your fellow traveller’s) clothes.

You can choose any combination of handlebar, gears, colours, weight-saving and other features exactly as you wish, almost without restriction.”.

The Brompton Bike.

Above: Folded Brompton, brochure picture (©Brompton Bicycle Ltd.).

Categories : design

I used to believe

2006-04-04

I Used To Believe will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. The following pages will reassure you that the things you used to believe weren’t so strange after all.”.
(Matthew Connolley)

Used to say our father, who art in heaven, hello whats your name?.”

I Used To Believe. The childhood beliefs site.

Categories : psychology

All look same

2006-04-02

“Chinese. Japanese. Korean. What’s the difference?
Some say it’s easy to see. Others think it’s difficult, may be even impossible. Who can really tell? That’s what we want to find out.
And if you’re wondering whether or not to take offense, remember: alllooksame is not a statement. It’s a question.”.

All look same? by Dyske Suematsu. “The difference is in the eye of the beholder.”.

Categories : psychology

Payphones

2006-03-28
payphone “I was 15 or 16 years old at the time and can’t explain why but it felt powerful to do that, to pick up a phone and call any location on earth just to see who was there and to find out what they were doing.

I also remember calling a certain phone booth on Kennedy Boulevard, near the University of Tampa.
Often when I’d call that booth a drunk would answer.

I don’t remember saying anything when the winos answered that phone, but my actions might sound strange: into the phone I played tapes of myself playing piano.
Sometimes people listened. Other times they hung up.

Today I am a concert classical pianist, but I no longer play the random phone booth concert circuit.”.
(Mark A. Thomas)

The Payphone Project, by Mark A. Thomas.

Above: Phone on yellow pillar, by Tanner Beck.
Picture released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

A Word A Day

2006-03-22

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this.”.
(Emo Phillips)

A.Word.A.Day includes a vocabulary word, its definition, pronunciation information with audio clip, etymology, usage example, quotation, and other interesting tidbits about words to subscribers every day.

You can think of it as a word trek where we explore strange new words.
Words are usually selected around a theme every week.”.
(Anu Garg)

Categories : language

Cute culture

2006-03-21

Kawaii style dominated Japanese popular culture in the 1980’s. Kawaii or cute essentially means childlike.

…Cute style began as an underground literary trend amongst young people who developed the habit of writing stylised childish letters to each other and to themselves.”.
(Sharon Kinsella, Cuties in Japan)

 

“…Put these tones – Formalism and Cuteness – together and you get the somewhat unexpected style I call Cute Formalism.
It’s unexpected because in the west it would be an eccentric, if not forbidden, combination of signifiers.

Formalism for us is intellectual, masculine, dry, adult, hard, macho, unsentimental, avant garde.
Cute on the other hand is silly, feminine, wet, childish, soft, effete, sentimental and kitsch.
What kind of chimera is this?”.
(Nick Currie, Cute formalism)

Sharon Kinsella “has been involved in research looking at emergent social trends linking youth, the media, subculture, corporate culture and new modes of governance, based on Japanese case studies with global application.”.

Nick Currie “also known as Momus, is a songwriter, a blogger and a journalist for Wired.”.

Categories : psychology

Explodingdog

2006-03-20
I am not like the other girls, by Sam Brown “My name is Sam, I draw pictures from your titles.”.
“This site could be thought of as a long term semi-collaborative art project.
Nobody pays for anything.
And when I draw a picture using someone’s title it is added to the front page for anyone who is interested to look at.”.

(Sam Brown, from answers to questions)

Leave me alone

Explodingdog, by Sam Brown.

Top, left: I am not like the other girls;
Bottom, right: I am alone please leave me alone, detail.

Categories : illustration

Juno Records

2006-03-16
Juno Records is the world’s largest dance music store.
Based in London, our web site was launched in March 1996, and since then we have built a reputation as the most comprehensive source for new and back catalogue dance music.”.

Analord
“Over 48.000 titles in stock. The site is updated daily to contain a complete listing of new UK dance releases and imports, along with sound clips and track listings.”. Juno

Right: Analord 05, Aphex Twin. Breakbeat Electro. Listen: Cilonen.

Categories : music