Monthly Archives: February 2008

If I Was 17 Again

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Street Art

Spotted this last night on Rivington Street. It looks like an original Ian Stevenson to me. I was tempted to pick it up and take it away. But taking it off the street would have been a crime…

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24 hour clock

24 hour art installation…

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Typographic Synthesizer – So Good It’s Magic!

You know sometimes when you see something so amazing that you almost forget to breathe while you’re looking at it. Well I’m just about finished hyperventilating after the end of this video.
The guys at Meek.fm have created something that creates an incredible relationship between typography, sound and a control surface. You can tweak type [...]

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That’s a Mermaid?

It’s amazing what YouTube throws up in it’s ‘related videos’ section:

For me, that’s not a mermaid. This is a mermaid:

I’d have loved to see Tom Hanks fall in love with the top one though.

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Pre-YouTube Silly Moments In Techno

I should probably start a separate category in the blog for this stuff. It just seems to keep on coming…
I loved this clip for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it’s a bunch of cheeky young ravers from Edinburgh. I would have been living there at the time and I’m pretty familiar with their ilk.
But [...]

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Commit No Nuisance

Could be a new motto for life.

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Spamsoup

Sometimes I can see how and why spam ends up being a jumble of nonsense. They’re trying to fool spam filters in obscure ways. But this one I just look at and scratch my head. A lot.
It’s just like a soup of words.
Dear Pokelondon Account Manager,
We are Synch1 – Australian immigration consultancy www.synch1.com and [...]

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Pissing Contests

I seem to be witnessing more and more intellectual pissing competitions these days. And it’s not just in planner-land, although that’s where I’ve witnessed some of the ‘best’ ones. I’ve seen a few good technical ones, and even designers seem to be getting in on the act.
So how do you spot when the transition between [...]

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Scratch Stickers

Superb.
Temporary stickers that make your bike or car look like it’s an old rustbucket to deter thieves. I spotted these in SCP the other day.
Availible online from http://dominicwilcox.com

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