Category Archives: Cool

Little Red Riding Hood, in Infographics

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
Not a whole lot to say here, other than:

This is amazing.
This is how I want to present my ideas to people.
This is a lot harder than it looks. Seems simple, but it’s an epic story told by a master information designer/animator.

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Trend: Keith Loutit’s Tilt-Shift Short Films

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
So f’n cool. The above videos are by an Australian named Keith Loutit, and they’re some of the most visually compelling short films that I’ve ever seen.

Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Each of the videos in his Vimeo stream utilize a photographic technique known as “Tilt-Shift”. […]

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Stella Artois Smooth Originals: C’est Brilliant

Dial Hard, featuring Jacques MeQlain.

Vingt-Quatre Heurs, featuring Jacques Baudeur.

And 8 Kilomètres, featuring Lapin. Where “Monte Carlo…et dans la place! Allez lapin!”
Nicely done, Stella. Remaking popular movies into 1960s-style French short films? C’est Brilliant.
Lesson: make cool stuff for the internet, and people will thank you for it.
And the site: Smooth Originals.

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Richness and Remixing – Comcast “Dream Big”

Two points.
One: There’s a lot to like here. And today, you need a lot to like to be even liked a little.
When you get down to it, with the shifting ways that people consume information, successful ads are really just successful bits of incredibly interesting film. The Comcast work here does focus on the features and benefits […]

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Mustache Trend Report

I posted the Canadian Club stir-sticks on NOTCOT on Friday (thought more people would like it, given that I’ve been seeing them everywhere lately), and thanks to my cheap web hosting company, iPower, my site’s been, well, loading like it’s being transferred at speeds measured in baud. Note to self: Do NOT use iPower. They […]

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Devil’s Lake Video

Camping, October 4th-5th, Devil’s Lake State Park, WI from guambomb on Vimeo.
My roommate is officially, like, Wes Anderson and Roger Deakins rolled into one. Oh and he has a blog now: hellapixels.com/blog/. Check it out.

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Wordle

Not sure what this is for, but it’s cool.

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Permutations of Cycling Artistry

First there’s this, a short from San Francisco, where the topography is a canvas for BMX-inspired fixed-gear art. Via a comment on PSFK.

And then there’s this, from the UK. Again, pure cycling beauty. I wish I could do this. If you didn’t know, this is called “Trials” riding and this guy is Danny Macaskill. Sick.

Two VERY different […]

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Current Web Hotness

Oh there’s some hot stuff going on in the web right now. In case you aren’t all over my del.icio.us, here’s a recap. Most of this stuff I found on notcot.org, which is in the list. Check it out if you’ve not already done so. But before the cool stuff, check out my friend Ivor’s […]

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Hi-Fi Blog 1: Big Monster Toys

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So here’s my first video. Gonna try to do them on the way to work. This one is about a building that I like to look at on my walk to work: Big Monster Toys, LLC. They’re apparently the remains of Marvin Glass & Associates, a board-game maker that has since dwindled to obscurity. Oh […]

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