April 2009
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Seelenluft - Fantasy
From the album Birds And...
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Is it just me...
…or does “pulchritude” sound like it means the opposite of “beauty”?
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WatchWow! Noteboek showcases the amazing skills and creativity of 25-year-old Dutch artist Evelien Lohbeck, who has already won 7 prizes for her work.
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WatchFootage by Vernissage TV of Swimming Pool: an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich, presented by the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. This exhibition either already ended on April 13, or it is still on view until October 24, 2009. I sent them an e-mail asking for confirmation.
Erlich has constructed a full-size pool, complete with...
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WatchThe Seed by Johnny Kelly. A two-minute animated voyage through nature’s life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed.
The film was kindly funded by Adobe, made using their CS4 range of software. It was produced at Nexus Productions and features a soundtrack by Jape. It was made using a mixture of stop motion papercraft and 2D drawn animation.
Make sure to watch...
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“One of my favorite hobbies is catching up on the latest celebrity gossip news.”
– from a 29-year-old woman’s profile on an online dating site.
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WatchOfficial music video for “Everytime” by Oi Va Voi, produced by Katarzyna Kijek & Przemysław Adamski.
This video was made with a shredding machine. Every third frame of the footage was printed, shredded and shot three times, blended with adjacent frames using different stripes configurations.
(via Abduzeedo)
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Recipes in 140 characters or less →
Maureen Evans (@cookbook) has been offering short recipes on Twitter since 2007. I don’t remember where I first read about this, but here’s a nice NYTimes.com article that just popped up in my feed reader: The Challenge of Recipes on Twitter.
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The Comic Sans Saga
Over the past week, I’ve come across several posts about Comic Sans. I can’t explain this trend, but here are some of the interesting and funny ones:
“Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your type.’”
That’s from this WSJ article: Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will. Vincent Connare, designer of Comic Sans, reacted with:...
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Flight Of The Conchords - Hurt Feelings
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The Future of Transportation and City Living
One of my favorite sources of forward-thinking, pertinent and interesting articles is GOOD. Issue 015 of the GOOD Magazine focuses on transportation. Here are some articles that stood out:
Project: Design a Livable Street - contest: submit your changes to problematic streets. Part of their Livable Streets initiative, here is GOOD’s redesign of the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and West...
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Chicken, Sweet Potato and Yam with Chimichurri
Just made a mighty tasty meal. It hit the spot after my swimming workout earlier today (which included a dip in the jacuzzi and one pass through the water slide). Tonight was another off-the-cuff monchef session. I knew I was going to make chicken breasts, and when I got home, I saw shallots, onions, a lemon and parsley. Perfect ingredients for a marinade quickly prepared in a food processor....
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April and May Events for Foodies in the DC Area
GRAPE + BEAN Organic Wine Tasting - Tuesday, April 21. 6:30pm-8:00pm. $40 per person.
Join Grape + Bean to taste a great line up of Organic and Biodynamic wines (red and white varietals). They’ll demystify the organic and biodynamic part of it with their partner Gary from Calypso Imports and pair them with a selection of organic cheese and other tasty treats. 118 South Royal Street, Alexandria,...
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Selective Twitter lets you update your Facebook... →
The first time I tried this app, it didn’t work. To make it work on the second try, I went back to the Selective Twitter app page, I entered my Twitter user name again and clicked Save.
(via Jesse Newhart on Twitter)
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WatchRicky Gervais on Inside the Actors Studio. I was catching up on my DVR recordings and couldn’t stop laughing during this bit.
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WatchSnippet from Kristen Schaal’s opening set for Flight Of The Conchords at Radio City in NY on April 15, 2009. (NSFW)
Check out her Vimeo page.
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I smell another book deal →
also available on tumblr.
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WatchRebekah Fergusson presents The Soccer Project. This is the trailer for Footplay: a documentary featuring Luke and Gwendolyn, two former college soccer stars who couldn’t make it to the pros. They travel to 25 countries exploring the less glorified side of soccer: pickup games.
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D-Train - Music (sourced from the 12” single...
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WatchFlutter: The New Twitter. Great video from Slate V.
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Nambu: 12 - TweetDeck: 2
Earlier this week, I decided to try 2 Twitter desktop clients: TweetDeck (the most popular) and Nambu (brand new OS X app). In my book, Nambu is the clear winner. Here are the winning points for each:
TweetDeck:
Facebook integration (coming soon in Nambu - it’s #1 on their new features list).
ability to move columns in the wide view (Nambu is working on it).
Nambu:
Growl...
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WatchBakerTweet is an ingenious device that allows bakers to announce which treats have just come out of the oven by sending messages to Twitter wirelessly. BakerTweet was developed by Poke using the Arduino technology.
The first BakerTweet device has been installed at the Albion Cafe on Boundary Street in Shoreditch, London. To find out what’s cooking, follow @albionsoven on Twitter. Something...
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Bwahaha @ Conjugal Harmony
Apparently, this site is over a year old, but I just found out about it via @popurls. Here are some hilarious excerpts from the FAQ:
What if I want prison sex without the marriage?
Sorry, we can only set up conjugal visits between married couples. There are “inmate dating” sites out there, but those scams are designed so that you meet the inmate while he or she is on the inside, but...
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