Those of you who follow me on Twitter will probably know that as of late, I’ve been really getting into Things by Cultured Code. It’s probably one of the best GTD apps I’ve ever had the pleasure of using, and now in addition to sorting out and prioritizing my various work and duties, I’ve also been using it to list potential concerts I’ll be attending once I get back to the States in September:
These were only the ones I could find on last.fm so far, but once more bands & artists start putting up their tour dates there’s no doubt this list’ll be bloating up like the Stay-Puft Man. With any luck, perhaps Animal Collective / Black Moth Super Rainbow / The Octopus Project / Anamanaguchi might even pencil in a tour date in LA later on this fall…
Here’s an interesting magic-in-the-real-world application – it looks like someone’s taken the ol’ Magic Coloring Book / Svengali Deck principle and applied it to an actual brochure:
I can totally imagine their clients freaking out after handling the booklet.
“HOLY CRAP HOW’D I JUST DO THAT??”
“Just sign *right* here, Mr. Andrews, and I’ll tell you everything.”
A sweet bit of trivia I’ve been happy to spread around recently is that the new iPhone 3G S commercial showing on TV was in fact directed by none other than professional badass David Fincher, whom most of you are familiar with for bringing us such awesome films as Fight Club, Se7en and Zodiac.
What I didn’t know, however, was that not only was the original iPhone 3G commercial directed by Fincher as well, but as my good friend Daren Yeow pointed out, the voiceover used for the TV spot was done by the equally-badass Robert Downey Jr.
“Every culture, industry, discipline, department, and organization has its own way of dealing with problems, its own metaphors, models, and methodologies. But often the best ideas come from cutting across disciplinary boundaries and looking into other fields for new ideas and questions. Many significant advances in art, business, technology, and science have come about through the cross-fertilization of ideas. And to give a corollary, nothing will make a field stagnate more quickly than keeping out outside ideas.”
A few months back I made a post about the first teaser for Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino’s new film coming out this August. Well, today on Twitter I came across Justin Robert Young’s update about a new international trailer that just got unleashed online, and boy does it sure look sexy:
It might just be me, but the very fact that they used Genesis by Justice as part of the trailer’s soundtrack is a sure sign of awesomeness to come.
I know, I know… yet another redesign? It’s like I have to keep changing the way this site looks otherwise I won’t post anything at all… sad, I know. No doubt Erik Jansson‘ll have something to say about it.
Anyway, for the past month I’ve been pretty busy working with The Virts on our new website and videos – granted, I still am, but at the same time I’d like to keep this site running as a side-project for all the non-Virt related stuff that I’m interested in.
So with that in mind, I’ve changed the theme for this site to one that’s more in the style of a classic blog format, and while I doubt I’ll be writing any really in-depth essays over the next few months, at the very least you’ll see several updates a day concerning stuff that’s not too serious to warrant a full-length post, but requiring just enough visual/textual presence for it not to fit within a 140 character message.
It’s said that the ‘third time’s the charm’, so hopefully this time round I’ll be able to keep this thing updated on a more frequent basis than I used to. At the very least I’ll just spam the place with countless videos of that darned Keyboard Cat. In fact, here’s one right now:
After almost a year of waiting, here’s the first official glimpse of what we have in store for you in 2009. Enjoy:
Don’t forget to subscribe to us on Youtube to get notified of our when our new videos are out! Believe me when I say that you don’t want to miss anything in the upcoming months… it’s going to be one hell of a year in the card flourishing world.
So it’s a late Saturday night, there’s nothing exciting going on, and you’re bored out of your mind. What to do? I know – let’s watch a movie!
Congratulations, you’ve now just seen The Catcher in the Rye. Amazing stuff, isn’t it? I’ll have to admit, though – that screenshot really doesn’t do the film justice. Maybe the trailer will give you a better idea:
If you’re sitting there wondering why the video above isn’t showing anything but a silent blue screen, imagine how the people who bought the DVD must have felt after having to sit through all 75 minutes and 6 seconds of the same thing.
Son: “srsly dad, wtf is this shit?”
Dad: “Now I know how Mark David Chapman Feels.”
Believe it or not, this film (for lack of a better word) is just one of a series of ‘adaptations’ created by absurdist artist Nigel Tomm back in 2008. Read More »
