sneaky cheap | funny

there are lots of crafty things people do to save money. Some are good ideas, some are lousy ideas, and some are downright criminal.

lying about your age to get a senior discount

creative machine | tech / art

harold cohen, artist and art professor at university of california, has been working on an art-creating program, called aaron, since 1973. aaron draws and paints stylized still lifes and portraits of human figures out of its programmed imagination with no images or additional human input necessary. so who's more creative? cohen or aaron?

aaron the artist

machine | quote

"to curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

by lewis mumford

radiohead artwork | art / music

album and related artworks from my favorite band, radiohead.

kid a's artwork

you are in control | tech / play

the you’re in control system uses computation to enhance the act of urination. sensors in the back of a urinal detect the position of a stream of urine, enabling people to play interactive games on a screen mounted above the urinal.

fun urination

i-move-u | design

a mitsubishi motors promotional website, designed by aoi advertising promotion. however what do they want to promotion is still a big question mark to me. really nice interesting design, you have to use both mouse and direction key to navigate.

pick who you want to control

pleasure | quote

"there is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

by j. raper

incredible stuff i made | neato

ordinary junk any moron could slap together? far from it, i actually think it's kinda cool. =)

rob testing his spring shoes

hated and loved | quote

"it is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

by andre gide

cannes 2003 | film

the list of this year cannes film festival official selection has been released. however, i only recognized a few films from the list, such as clint eastwood's mystic river, gus van sant's elephant, and lars von trier's dogville, the rest are mostly unheard of to me. compare to last year's american line-up punch-drunk love, about schmidt, the pianist, 24 hour party people, bowling for columbine.. etc. this is kinda disappointing. =/

festival de cannes 2003

hot towel art | art

it begins from the opened hot towel and finishes with the opened hot towel.

a croissant

admire | quote

"fools admire, but men of sense approve."

by alexander pope

robots have feelings too.. | art / event

robots have feelings too is a group art show involves artists from different backgrounds, stages in their careers, and working methods. there's artists who have shown around the globe and new talent ready to emerge. there's comic book artists and graffiti writers. older artists and younger artists. currently showing at culture cache gallery, san francisco, ca. until may 18th 2003.

kilo, by jeff soto

blur - think tank | music

blur, one of my favorite british band is going to release their seventh album, think tank, on may 5th. however, the new equation is blur minus the genius guitarist graham coxon plus the guitarist simon tong from the verve. i hope this will turn out good. oooh.. i just remember i want to get graham coxon's solo album too!

blur - graham coxon + simon tong = ?

wakamaru the caretaker bot | tech

the robot, which recently wheeled around to greet guests at the embedded systems conference, is still in development. but it has the potential to replace a human caretaker in japan, where robotic technology is embraced and the graying of the population has left many young people wondering who will care for their parents.

what's next? babysister bot?

ideal | quote

"good questions outrank easy answers."

by paul a. samuelson

a naughty bunny | funny

we saved a bunny from a car park last week. we shouldn't have bothered. we don't have the bunny any more.

the evil bunny

jean-pierre khazem | photography / art

jean-pierre khazem's uncanny photographs - of people wearing strange masks and animal heads - seamlessly mix art, fashion and advertising.

untitled v14, from llama project

pentix | neato

pen spinning is a form of contact juggling that uses a small object, like a pen or a pencil, to perform different tricks that not only sharpen your skills, but also amaze people.

amazing hand

here's a video featuring kam, the best pen spinner on the planet, wicked stuff.

ideal | quote

"what we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real."

by h. f. hedge

imax matrixperience | film

imax has announced today that both matrix sequels - matrix reloaded and matrix revolutions are going to be re-master to imax 15/70 format using proprietary imax dmr (digital re-mastering) technology and release shortly after matrix reloaded and simultaneously with matrix revolutions.

isn't it nice? when things go huge?

oldest human art | art / science

if the rock art in the chauvet cave is 30000 years old, it is the most ancient example of human art in existence and the implications for the evolution of culture are immense.

panel of the panther

source: new scientist

the way things go | neato

is honda's cog commercial cool? watch this, there is a dvd out there called the way things go, which is entirely about a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision. if you like cog, i'm sure you will like this one too.

the way things go, by peter fischli and david weiss

p.s.: by the way, if you are looking for honda's cog commercial, you can find the article here.

fivetwentyone design | design

five twenty one design is a self-taught, learn-as-we-go design studio based in new york city, founded by chris ferebee and laurice parkin.

hive modular shelving, by chris ferebee

fun | quote

"form follows fun."

by achille castiglioni

paralax | photography

paralax, the title of the recent series of photographs of waldemar jama is a term that generally relates directly to physical phenomena and means a difference in readings of instruments caused by inadequate position of an observer’s eye in relation to scale of the instrument.

paralax, by waldemar jama

source: speckledpaint

computer space | retro

in 1971, nolan bushnell, who worked for nutting associates with the then bizarre job title of videogame designer, invented a new type of arcade game called computer space that forever changed the world.

the first video arcade game ever

mood light | gadget

the mood light is a programmable wall hangings that changes color to different mode to suit your mood, or even syncs color effects with the sounds that come from your speakers.

a virtual sensation

wonderful | quote

"that must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means."

by moliere

the hulk international trailer | film

here you go, the last trailer before the movie comes out, the best in all the trailers released before it. interesting enough, unlike other superhero movies, the hulk is actually playing both the protagonist and the antagonist rolls.

superhero? monster?

phoons | project

the still pose is called a phoon. people from around the world send in phoon pictures from their home towns and their travels. you can, too!

phoons around the world!

correction: sorry about the link, it's now link to the right place.

dress up your cat | funny

kittens dress up party!

sheepy!

good times | quote

"good times pass away, but then so do the bad."

by boethius

swing bike | neato

a swingbike has one distinct function that no ordinary bicycle has; it's swing arm below the seat which is attatched like the handle bars to the frame. this enables it's rider to steer from the side & maneuver in ways that defy the laws of physics!

let's swing

he-man | animation

i can't believe it.. i just watched he-man again tonight. he was my hero when i was little. but now he's with robot and shit.. it's actually kinda funky. anyway it's good to see him again. =)

master of the universe

imagination | quote

"live out of your imagination, not your history."

by stephen covey

not not | neato

a site full of wonderful and interesting creations, such as designs, visuals, transformations, motion graphics.. etc.

tickle robot

russian ark | film

can it really be done? one single take, two thousand actors, thirty five rooms, through four centuries, ninety minitues long, a movie about the history of russian and the hermitage museum. despite the grand scale and quanity of the movie, it's actually more about the idea of making a movie in one long take from an artistic approach.

the hermitage

imagination | quote

"so you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering."

by brenda ueland

behind honda cog | neato

here you go, more info about the honda cog commercial. here's an article of the makers of this wonderful commercial.

cog, classic.

24th century design | design

24th century interior design, this is for all you sci-fi geeks out there.

bliss is a room without wires

hearing colors, tasting shapes | science

they experience the ordinary world in extraordinary ways and seem to inhabit a mysterious no-man's-land between fantasy and reality. for them the senses touch, taste, hearing, vision and smell, get mixed up instead of remaining separate.

synesthesia

supreme | quote

"the supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."

by victor hugo

ambient orb | gadget

ambient orb, really cool gadget that will change color in different situation depends on your configuration, for example, when your stock goes up it will turn to green, or blue when your friend is online, yellow when you have emails.. etc.

simple, but interesting

artist | quote

"every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

by henry ward beecher

dante gabriel rossetti | literature / art

dante gabriel rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both john ruskin and walter pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in great britain.

the rossetti archive

multiverse | science

read this interesting article today, it's about the theory of infinite, parallel universes. have you ever think about there's a copy or copies of you living in another planet far away?

bubbles theory

creation | quote

"i criticize by creation, not by finding fault."

by marcus tullius cicero

honda cog | neato

cog, the 2 minitues long commercial from honda. it took the film crew 606 takes to to make it all works and it's 99% live action!

isn't it nice? when things just work.

principles | quote

"principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."

by mark twain