June 2009
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“Michael took his place in the choir next to Elvis, Buddy, & Janis. Troubles...”
– Very Short Story on Twitter. RIP.
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The 9:16 Film Festival →
A short film festival inspired by the aspect ratio of video files shot on Apple’s new iPhone 3GS. Submissions should be in by September 1st and can be either a single shot (less than three minutes) or an edited short (less than five minutes). (via Making Of)
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“Cook is Spock: low-key, cerebral, methodical. He’s the Apollonian counterpart to...”
– Newsweek’s Dan Lyons draws a Trek analogy for the relationship between Apple’s COO Tim Cook and erstwhile CEO Steve Jobs. (via John Gruber)
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“Then, I heard it — the click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the...”
– From a short piece by an unknown SR-71 pilot on being the fastest guys in the sky. (via Craig Hockenberry)
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“You couldn’t find a better way to summarise the idiocy and emptiness of...”
– Philip Matthews on the delayed Hitchcock remake.
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TinEye →
TinEye is a reverse image search engine — upload an image and it performs a pixel-by-pixel search for similar images across the Internet, even those that have been cropped or photoshopped. (via idsgn)
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Feverº →
Shaun Inman’s long-awaited feed reader app, Fever, sees the light of day and damn if it isn’t another sweet piece of work. It’s a self-hosted PHP/MySQL app that bubbles up the most talked-about items from your feeds. US$30 for WebKit and Gecko browsers only, plus it runs in Fluid and is iPhone optimised. What are you waiting for?
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Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. →
Online purveyors of high-quality crime-fighting merchandise, including capes, secret identities, mylar force fields, x-ray specs, cloning fluid and gallon buckets of gravity. Pure awesome, even moreso as all proceeds from the sale of its products go directly to support the free writing programs at 826NYC. (via Michael Lopp)
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Sam Rockwell and Duncan Jones talk to...
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Watch48Hours is a New Zealand-wide contest to write, shoot and edit a short film in a single weekend. Technical Difficulties from Team Zombies Rule — one of my favourites from the Auckland regional final — narrowly missed making it into this year’s national final. Each team draws a random genre and is assigned elements to include in the short: a character, object and line of dialogue. These guys...
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WatchMike Harding:
The illustrative work of McBess gets a wonderful 3D makeover in the music video for his band The Dead Pirates. 2D illustrations — especially with such a strongly defined style — don’t always hold up well in the transition, but I love the way this turned out.
It’s even better in HD on Vimeo.
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Walken the Walk →
The greatest impersonation challenge probably ever. Needs more Kevin Pollak.
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“Come Monday Night” from the...
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“Science fiction movies don’t necessarily flourish in deep space. The best ones...”
– Wired’s Lewis Wallace likes Moon.
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Fontfabric™ →
Independent type foundry launched late 2008 by Bulgarian designer Svetoslav Simov, with the stated aim of releasing a new free or commercial face every week. (via Jarred Bishop)
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“I had a funny joke about design but the client revised all the funniness out of...”
– Chris Riebschlager on Twitter.
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