Tag Archives: Ideas

Yann Martel on Big Think

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Really awesome interview (Big Think allows interviewees to talk uninterrupted) with the author of The Life of Pi, Yann Martel. Yann Martel | Novelist | Big Think

pierce this Great Eye: mine explosion

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Yet another mind-bending post from pierce this Great Eye: pierce this Great Eye: mine explosion.

pierce this Great Eye: haven’t farmed flickr for a whil

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Another awesome post from TREMETOL’s pierce this Great Eye…it’s like watching 100 artsy movies and reading 100 fashiony magazines all at once. I love trying to guess what decade they are from: haven’t farmed flickr for a whil

pierce this Great Eye: darling tatiana

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Pierce this Great Eye is a blog by a very interesting artist that he uses to share things that provide inspiration. I really enjoy this post from March 24: pierce this Great Eye: darling tatiana

Bruce Sterling At Reboot 2009 (via Warren Ellis)

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Sterling is a creative sci-fi author (a.k.a. speculative fiction novelist) and blogger about the state of things and how that will shape what is to come (a.k.a. futurist). He’s not one to pussyfoot around an impending crisis, or mince words about valuable contribution to human society. In that vein, he gave a downright sobering lecture [...]

Crazy stop-motion censored-porno music video (NSFW)

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No special computer effects were used to create this, just an unhealthy obsession with porno mags and some mad stop-motion skills: PJ Harvey, The Piano (video) (via Dailymotion)

Stefanie Posavec, “On the Map”

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Amazing artistic interpretations in the vein of Tufte’s style of infographics from Stefanie Posavec called “On the Map” via NOTCOT: Stefanie’s maps capture something above and beyond that of the others. Rather than mapping physical geography, her maps capture regularities and patterns within a literary space.

Karen Kilimnik is trying to tell us something about art

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Karen Kilimnik is a painter who creates museum-like environment installations for her quick knock-offs of details of old paintings. If the word “impressionism” were free to label a sub-genre of art it would aptly describe Kilimnik’s “impressions” of the work of canonized masters, but they are akin to a parrot doing an impression of De [...]

Iron Man earned universal praise, now bring on the backlash!

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How great a thing looks depends on the viewer’s perspective, and Jon Favreau‘s Iron Man movie is no exception. If you’re expecting a serious, gritty take on a tormented anti-hero like Batman Begins you will be disappointed. If your benchmarks are the cartoonish and sloppy Fantastic Four movies you will want Iron Man given an [...]

How to protect your data while traveling

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And now for something completely different: Protecting Yourself From Suspicionless Searches While Traveling | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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