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

Open-source engine for everything website! Blog, content-management…

Definitely worth checking out, tons of modules, themes etc.

The next tool for our portfolio site!

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

* Content Management Systems
* Blogs
* Collaborative authoring environments
* Forums
* Peer-to-peer networking
* Newsletters
* Podcasting
* Picture galleries
* File uploads and downloads

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/

Draw something on the screen, submit your drawing and receive a random drawing from someone else. Your drawing can be as simple or as detailed as you like.

http://www.sketchswap.com/

THIS IS AN OPEN EDITION OF 366 4X6 PRINTS (2008 IS A LEAP YEAR). I will mail you the prints intermittently depending on how I feel. I may mail you one at a time as a post-card. I may mail you a whole weeks worth in one envelope. By the beginning of 2009 you will have 366 skies. Each print will be stamped with the date on the back. A list of locations with their correlating dates will be printed at the end of the year. I want you to keep them in a pile so that they become a slowly growing sculpture, which I think would look nice. If you are interested in purchasing this, send an email at hikarusaru (at) gmail (dot) com. This will be available for the entirety of 2008. If you purchase this after the first of the year, all the back photographs will be sent in one package.

This is my design for the Threadless Loves Democracy Challenge. The teacup on the left is full of votes for cupcakes, while the teacup on the right only has one vote. Everyone wins when cupcakes win!

Remember when your heart sank just a little when you realized the Pink Panther movie wasn’t a cartoon?

Then, only a few years later, seeing Edward Gorey’s eerily fantastic opening to “Mystery!” capped with Vincent Price’s name on a headstone had your head spinning at the thought of the kind of stories those etchings could tell…if only the show was based on those illustrations.

Well, we want to see more of that. So watch and remember and create. And if you’ve got something to contribute, send it along.

Oh, and would someone please start a petition to get “A Thousand Clowns” on dvd?

Thanks.

http://www.buenothebear.com/

Eleven months later, two days before I was to be married, I was fired. And, although I list the reason I was fired as “general incompetence,” I believe what was actually said to me was “I’m sorry, we can’t help you anymore.” This was a very painful experience for me.

hey fellow bloggers

i thought our blogging expressions could extend beyond this wordpress, and so today, i created a muxtape account for all to share. Muxtape is a great way of sharing music between friends and probably a good time-killer at work too, so start uploading to our dreams music list and maybe someday we could go on to produce our very own label. Or not.

http://dreams.muxtape.com/

username: dreams
password: dreams

Let the muxic begin.

p.s.: i added the link onto the right side of the blog, under ‘links’.
p.p.s: ok i just realised theres a limit of 12 songs -_- …oh well we’ll make another album if this gets filled up fast.

http://www.booooooom.com/2008/08/13/satirical-maps/#more-916

Finally, the Olympics come. And the girl with straighter teeth and longer hair is given a nice red dress. She wonders why no dress has been made for her. But the flashing lights and gymnastics push those thoughts away. It is an honor to be chosen, she remembers. So she sings an ode to her motherland, with all that is within her. And even she knows she has done well. But after the show no body wants her picture. Everyone takes pictures of the other girl. It is the other girl on the newspaper, it is the other girl’s name on the program. But she is content, knowing she was heard, even if she wasn’t seen.Self-doubt will come later. It will come at 13 and unsure. At 14 and curious. At 15 and aware. At 16 and insecure. She will ask the questions later. For now, she will watch Lin Miaoke take the glory, and be content knowing that she was heard, even if not seen.

Unrestricted Warfare (超限战, literally “warfare beyond bounds”) is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People’s Liberation Army, Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui. Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means. Such means include using International Law (see Lawfare) and a variety of economic means to place one’s opponent in a bad position and circumvent the need for direct military action.^[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare_(book)

 http://books.google.com/books?id=ejFV1568hqAC&dq=unrestricted+warfare&pg=PP1&ots=GDel8BsLUs&sig=NR6WQkvCtX2UdLMmMb-Bsp-owEc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR8,M1