Street Art: Jesus Christ Messiah - orticanoodles – click full size
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Very clever use of urban / industrial environment to elevate 2 dimensional stencil and spray art into a three-dimensional and thought-provoking work of art.
You should look up orticanoodles on Flickr or visit (their) website.
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This is one of the most profound and engaging glimpses of the past – of a Western city – that I’ve ever seen. Applause go to Tim Sparke for posting it on Vimeo. And to Claude Frisse-Greene, who made this movie as part of a series of travelogues in an age when colour was almost unheard of. Beautiful.
For me, connecting on a personal note, I’ve only ever visited London (clubbing in the 1990s and noughties, and later savouring the history and culture that resides forever there), never lived in the place; but it is a remarkable and fascinating city throughout all ages. Rather wonderfully, the video focuses a lot on the area of the Thames around Tower Bridge – which is the location of the first scene of the novel I’ve been working on since last year (The Social Club - click here to read notes on work in progress). Lovely to see the location in a historical context.
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Available in Paperback or Kindle
Paperback : from LULU & Kindle: US ($), UK (£), DE (Euro)
GOD SEED { novel } For acclaimed documentary film-maker, Adam Kyle, this was going to be another feather in his cap. Embedded within a team of highly trained corporate mercenaries, he was covering the start of an operation in England. But when the operation goes terribly wrong, Kyle finds himself battling for his life, his sanity, and maybe even his very soul as a new and dramatic story unfolds, dragging him across the globe…and beyond. It isn’t just his documentary that is at stake, but the fate of every living thing in the Universe. David J Rodger delivers a gut-wrenching and epic journey in a novel that plunges deep into the crawling chaos and takes you to the edge of the membrane of human existence.
Working with web developers
Ken Norton has crafted a fine tuned guide for coping with the ways of web developers (software engineers) but has finally succumbed to the need to share his experience, and demonstrate a wonderful sense of comic irony.
1. Absorb praise
2. Deflect blame
Remember: there is no “we” in me
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3. Don’t bother with the details
4. Involve them late
5. Add process
Process leads to productivity
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6. Never tell the reasons
7. Commit for them
8. Interrupt at any time
Nothing is more important than whatever you need right now
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9. Be ambiguous
10. They’re always lying
When Norton isn’t being the best Product Manager in history alongside Steve Jobs and Niccolò Machiavelli he is a group product manager at Google. He joined Google in 2006 with the acquisition of JotSpot, where he was vice president of products. He has a BA from Boston University and an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a dad to two boys and really likes to ride his bike.
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God Save The Queen – Image: Prefab77 all rights reserved
Well this is a surprise. Found this image on the web a while ago and finally found time to post it up here. Did a little digging to see who to credit and I discover it’s by a street art collective from the stomping ground of my early years, the North East of England. Scratching a little deeper I find they’re responsible for the balaclava dude I first noticed bloody years ago on the concrete support pillar heading towards the underpass leading into Brandling Village. Nice work, guys (and gals). Good to finally connect a couple of dots as that piece of art always left me intrigued whenever I went “home” and walked around my old haunts.
You should follow the link to learn more about Prefab77 .
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x-ray cartoon mouse wallpaper – source: unconfirmed – Click Full Size
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I wonder if this will “come back” with the rest of the 1970s? Almost naked couple getting it on with brass wind instruments. Genuine WTF moment when I saw it. Such a gem of a weird wacky image I had to share.
WASNATCH Front to Back – 1970s style – Click Full Size
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Merrrrrrh!
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Photo still of Ghostriders II – click for full size
Nifty short video with music by Gesaffelstein that should appeal to folks who enjoy the electro beats of The Hacker’s album Rêves Mécaniques, and those with a taste for nocturnal glimpses of a European capital city. Arty, quick and very well done.
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Step away from the infinite gravy train of big agencies. The endless circle of Powerpoint pitch; video, audio and face-2-face meets; scope creep, eternal amends until somebody finally draws a line under the thing that no longer has any resemblance to the original spark.
Here is another brain child from the l’enfant terrible of the international marketing scene: Floyd Hayes, a Brit made good in the US of A, architect of many successful campaigns from big brand names to the small guy on the global village street.
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WFA offers a simple three step process:
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• Step 3: Within 24 hours, clients receive the creative pitch via Twitter DMWFA is the world’s first 100% Twitter based ad agency and is a subsidiary FHC LLC, a creative marketing and communications consultancy ran by Floyd Hayes.
Hayes is a past winner of the 2008 Mirren Business Forum Pitch Battle where world class teams had four hours to be briefed and pitch a winning concept to a panel of industry experts.
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But don’t just take my word for it. The WFA is already generating a swirling vortex of interest. This is something new and exciting. Keep your eyes focussed and your attention set to wide burst scan.
“Very fast, very good.” – Neal Davies, Pitch Judge & Former Partner, Naked.
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Nikola Tesla: Serbian-American inventor, engineer, engineer, physicist, and futurist. Click full size
As an aside, Tesla presents an intriguing character for any Cthulhu Mythos campaign. I especially enjoy the idea his brilliant capacity for opening up new portals of thought comes from the fact he may have been (unwittingly) shifting back and forth between the fabric of temporal reality – hence his penchant for isolation and moments of “madness”. Or perhaps he was the successful host of some cosmic projected mind streaming in from a far-flung angle of space and time? I certainly like to think that characters in a near future cyberpunk / far future fantasy might encounter a reflection, or actual physical contact with the man as he flits back and forth along the time continuum.
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Wonderfully engaging illustrated praise of Nikola Tesla and the vast range of inventions and ideas that owe a great deal to his incredible mind. And some rather interesting bashing of Thomas Edison. Described throughout as a douchebag. Informed hilarity ensues.
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I strongly recommend following the link through to The Oatmeal to enjoy the rest of the comic. Brilliant and informative.
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Photo humour: The Real Tom and Jerry – source unknown (please advise)
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Commuters in Chelyabinsk, an area of the Ural Mountains today were startled to find a chunk of space debris flaring into ball of fire above them, streaking across the sky for a few seconds in a sharp downward angle, it exploded into burning fragments showering the area beneath it. Apparently some injuries have occurred along with damage to buildings.
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CCTV catches dramatic effect of meteor shock wave
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You can see a collection of other videos from this event via an article on the Guardian website.
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I suppose using a video camera in any sense of distorting reality doesn’t ring true and is more like a “cheat” than a fail, but this is a rather wonderful, simple and effective demonstration of a sound and water experiment.
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You can see more illusions & science videos via Brusspup YouTube Channel.
This illusion is achieved by generating a 24 hz sine wave with the subwoofer and setting the video camera to 24 fps. Result is the camera’s frame rate syncs with the rate of the vibrations of the water so it appears to be frozen or still.
If you play a 23 hz sine wave your frame rate will be off just a little compared to the sine wave causing the water to appear to “move backwards”. Alternatively, play a 25 hz sine wave and cause the water to appear to move slowly forward.
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Bertie Bassett
Mr Cadbury met Miss Rowntree on a Double Decker.
It was just After Eight.
They got off at Quality Street.
He asked her name. ‘Polo, I’m the one with the hole’ she said with a Wispa.
‘I’m Marathon, the one with the nuts’ he replied.
He touched her Cream Eggs, which was a Kinder Surprise for her.
Then he slipped his hand into her Snickers, which made her Ripple.
He fondled her Jelly Babies and she rubbed his Tic Tacs.
Soon they were Heart Throbs.
It was a Fab moment as she screamed in Turkish Delight.
But, 3 days later, his Sherbet Dip Dab started to itch.
Turns out Miss Rowntree had been with Bertie Bassett and he had Allsorts!
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Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon taken by Neil Armstrong. Photo: NASA
A plethora of conspiracy theories purport that, in 1969, NASA did not actually land on the moon. Painstaking analysis of the photo and video footage, corroborated by in-depth discussion between “experts”, have been used to make the following point: NASA lied. Think – a flag flapping in a vacuum, stars missing from the shot, etc. Many conspiracy theorists argue that legendary movie-maker Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey) actually filmed the moon landing in a television studio.
Writer/Director S.G. Collins, doesn’t buy it. And he’s got several decades of photographic/videographic experience to reason and slice his way through the rhetoric. The man’s humour is superbly dry and I actually laughed out loud a few times – in delight – as he ploughs forward, providing conclusive evidence to back up his point: while the technology to land on the moon did exist in ’69, the technology to fake it did not.
Enjoy…
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