http://www.plusheads.com/mixi/index.html

Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web.

Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player.

http://opentape.fm/

http://www.yearbookyourself.com/

After months of collecting assets, writing case studies, translating, programming, bug checking and re-programming, www.wktokyo.jp launched today. Beyond covering the usual stuff – who we are, where we are, what we do – the site also features our people and their input on what’s cool and interesting in our city.

http://www.wktokyo.jp/blog/?p=786

Naomi Yotsumoto is the most-talked about ping pong player in Japan right now, and it’s not just because of her paddle-swatting skillz. The petite 29-year old Tokyo native is revolutionizing the sport by dressing provocatively and presenting herself as more than just an athlete. After creating plenty of buzz in local and international press because of her hot pink and rainbow-striped outfits (there is no dress code in professional ping pong), she now has her own TV show and a published autobiography. And as you can see in this video (from the national mixed doubles competition this year, where she placed second), she’s really pretty good at what she does. And even when she doesn’t win, the commentators never fail to spend a bunch of time fawning over her outfits and noticing how the crowd perks up when she walks in. Naomi Yotsumoto = the Asian Anna Kournikova = awesome at doubles, not so hot at singles, better known for her looks than for her athleticism.

Collaborative workshop with Aubrey Stalnaker, Adam Loczynksi and Kristi Pesick. An intense weeklong workshop with Thomas Castro and Jeroen Barendse of Studio LUST. Given 44-minutes of an interview with the composer John Cage by Morton Feldman we developed a concept based on a converstation we had in reaction to the interview. As a group we decided that our conversation was fragmented and disjointed, often bouncing from topic to topic. We then deconstructed and analyzed our conversation into as many fragments as we could: from the smallest representation, a single letter of the discussion, to the largest - the entire conversation.

via http://iamdriv.blogspot.com

In this work by Pascual Sisto, a plastic bag obstructs the Google Maps Street View of Minnie Street in Fairbanks, Alaska. Discovered while researching Google Maps Street View, Sisto preserves this “found object” by redirecting it to its own url, lastbreathinalaska.com, as well as capturing it as a back-up video, in case Google decides to reshoot the location. Swirling on a constant panoramic loop, the movement of the camera gives the abstract image an almost 3D-like quality. The piece documents Google’s fraught attempt to supply an accurate representation of Minnie Street, and, as such, Sisto sees Last Breath in Alaska (Found Object) as a response to the purportedly omniscient eye of the Street View feature, and the issues of transparency and privacy it raises. - Ceci Moss

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/bathroom-art/index.html?hp

If you’re looking for a new way to find color inspiration in your photos, try this simple Photoshop technique to pull out colors from a single pixel line and create some unique color artworks… there are so many vastly different results from the same images depending on where you select the single pixel line. Try it out:

Photoshop Instructions

-Open Any Photo You Want
-Use the Single Row Marquee Tool & Select a Single Pixel Row
-Transform (CTRL+T) & Stretch to Full Height
-Then Use Filter > Artistic > Dry Brush

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/08/22/single-pixel-color-inspiration-from-photos/

Over the years of the modern Olympic era we have witnessed design take a forefront in the planning and execution of the event. It has seemingly gone from a casual, low key sporting event, with each venue taking their turn hosting, into a full scale media orgy of Superbowl proportions.

For those who get off before the last stop — almost everyone — the end is just a sign on the train. What’s there, anyway? Explore photographs and video.

Using the same image but playing with size and position,
this zine focuses on one nice-to-look-at female subject, printed over abstract exercises
in pattern and form. Prime numbers indicate the current page.

“Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities,” at the Museum of Modern Art, was inspired by the Renaissance wunderkammer or “cabinet of curiosities.” That’s a fairly eccentric idea for a place as identified with classic modernism as the Modern, but the show relies on too many of the museum’s usual suspects.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/22/arts/20080822-CURI_index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22curi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

东西没变，环境变了。

别人没变，自己变了。

世界没变，眼睛变了。

This is not the real name for this series of videos, but it is my personal name for it.
The literal translated name for 自作の改造マリオ（スーパーマリオワールド）を友人にプレイさせる is “Making my friend play through my own Mario(Super Mario World) hack”, hence Kaizo(hack) Mario to the USA.
The original videos were in god awful codecs that were a bitch to convert, so unfortunately the Tool Assisted Speedruns came first to most youtube watchers.
This is rather unfortunate, as I feel you lose a lot of the “appeal” by watching those.

Anyway, watch an evil genius of a level designer subject his friend with godly skills to the must fucked up combination of creative, insane, downright ASSHOLEISH Super Mario World levels ever dreamed of.

hi all
i’m doing a personal project on Chinese people. Being Chinese myself, I’m interested in finding out more about its culture and its conflict with foreign influences.

if you consider yourself Chinese and would kindly wish to help, here’s what i’ll need from you:

1. Tell me your name
2. Tell me where you’re from/born/grew up
3. Take a photo of your life/environment/home/yourself to express what makes you Chinese
4. Write down a statement or paragraph to express what makes you not Chinese

i will compile all submissions into a book or website and your name would defintely be included.

you could either post it here or email submissions to neonspice@gmail.com

thanks guys

An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities …

via http://www.manystuff.org/