I love me some irony. Mix irony with fond childhood memories and I’m even happier.
Month: January 2008
Vader as a young girl
Does this strike anyone else as somehow wrong?
The Egg Chair
This would look mighty nice in my office. Found at Notcot
The Secret life of blog posts
What happens when you click publish? More than you think. From Wired
Peter Bjorn and John
Young Folks. Apparently this was the iTunes song of the year according to Peter Bjorn and John’s myspace page
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imeem.com – i think i'm in love
How could I not have heard of this? Am I that out of the loop?
The site is called imeem.com. The description is typical web 2.0: You build playlists by selecting from their library of tracks, then share your playlists with your “friends” or the whole site. What is blowing my mind is the size of the library, and the quality of the streamed audio.
The content page shows a very impressive list of media companies. Equally indie and big studio.
I’ve done a number of searches for current indie-ish bands like The Fiery Furnaces, The National, Besnard Lakes, Blonde Redhead, Black Mountain, and all have come back with pretty much the entire catalog from each artist. We’re talking full albums. Streaming in high quality flash audio. Playing out through a USB to RCA cable into my fairly decent stereo, through fairly decent speakers, I can’t tell the difference between the streamed audio and my eMusic acquired version of the same track.
The site has a very handy QuickMix function, which allows you to build a playlist on the fly as you move around the site. Just click on the add to QuickMix button next to each track and you’re done. Save your quickmik to access it anytime.
I discovered the site late this afternoon, and have done little beside explore it.
Did I mention that it’s free? The business model seems to be based around advertising and sales. View a song’s page, and you’ll see a download button. Click that to be given the option to buy the track from iTunes or Amazon. I assume there’s some kind of affiliate thing going on, with revenue being split between the label and the site.
Falling Down
Great (long) article by my friend Andy Rutledge, my favorite male designer.
To paraphrase: unless you plan to fail, and practice doing so, failing will mess you up. And failing is a big part of life.
I’m lovin’ Andy’s design btw. Check it out.
Flickr find: Info porn
esquema tipografico sobre la contaminacion sonora, visual y de personas en once, originally uploaded by ilusiones_design.
I have no idea what this says, but it’s gorgeous. Click the image to view it at a larger size.
from the onion: Still Ahead: the new iPhone shuffle will hold 1000 random phone number
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