Lord of the Rings, Avatar… movies that greatly blurred the line between real and computer-generated. But nothing so thoroughly blew me away like this 12 minute video on architecture as art, “The Third & The Seventh“. Exquisite work.
[Note from Kyle: this was an old post sitting around in draft status. I have no idea why I didn't post it, as it appears to be finished and ready to go.]
Kelly and I just purchased Iron & Wine’s Passing Afternoon. Why? It was featured at the end of House M.D.’s season finale. I Google’d the lyrics, took the artist and song information and confirmed I had the right song by watching/listening to the YouTube video. The last step was actually purchasing: I checked iTunes, but their copy wasn’t restriction-free, so I headed over to Amazon. Bingo! No restrictions, $9 (for the whole album) heading Amazon’s way.
Granted, I’m also not the typical music consumer, but Kelly is. More and more, the songs she buys she discovers through commercials and TV/movie soundtracks. There are still songs that Kelly buys because she heard it on the radio, but even that’s XM, not FM. She may not care about the intricacies of why DRM is evil, but she does get annoyed when it’s hard to share music with her husband or sister. Fortunately, iTunes has made it easy to find restriction-free tracks. If iTunes doesn’t have it restriction-free, there’s a good chance Amazon will.
Questions to ponder:
Bad product naming aside, I was blown away by the video footage shot by Canon’s upcoming SLR in the short, “Reverie“. The video immediately takes on a film movie look, with depth-of-field shots and gorgeous color and detail in low-light settings. More after the jump.
The riches of the Internet:
* The subtle beauty of subversive humor and unexpected virtuosity on the daily commute.
* A skillful blending of the old and new in a tribute to classic cinema.
* Utilitarian structures finding new life as striking architecture.
* Yes We Can.
One final note on the last item: Obama may be the most liberal Senator of 2007, but boy does he go down smooth.
Storage for 16,000 book, simplicity, and oodles of natural lighting.
The house appears to be a trapezoidal shape, all open on the interior. The largest side is all windows to funnel the light in and provide a natural panorama. The siding looks like the cheap corrugated metal siding, like what you’d expect to see in a junkyard; combined with the wood, in this setting, it works. The only change I might make would be to the porch: I’d like one large enough to relax and watch a storm roll in. Photos after the jump.
I am infatuated with simplity: reading Unclutterer, Zen Habits, Paul Graham’s Stuff… purging my cubicle, cleaning out the garage, and maybe even picking up around our home office (the worst den of disorganization). We are paring down the amount of stuff we own. Nothing radical yet, but just a little here, a little there.
Just came across a neat Firefox plugin for Flickr addicts (you know who you are) or anyone who enjoys browsing digital photos via the web: PicLens.
PicLens enables full-screen slideshows and photo browsing and supports integration with a number of popular photo sites:
Sony has posted the follow-up ad to the previously-blogged Bouncy Balls. Once again, beautiful, funny, and a skilled piece of art masquerading as an ad. I prefer Bouncy Balls–it’s a bit more slowed down, soothing, and surreal–but I definitely recommend watching Sony paint-bomb an apartment building in Belfast.
The highlight of this weekend was “BarCampGrandRapids”:http://barcamp.org/BarCampGrandRapids. To briefly describe: BarCamps are technology conferences that take place worldwide, from Austin, Texas to Perth, Australia. Most professional conferences are expensive events, and you often end up listening to a lot of marketing pitches from companies, rather than learning something.
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