The Fine Folder

I could watch this for hours and hours

electricworks — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:25:54 +0000

Something about the tiltshift makes me really, really happy. And the fact that it’s video makes it all the better.

Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Musical Tesla Coil

Erik — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:40:33 +0000

Give it a moment to gather some steam….

Bacon Plasma Torch

Erik — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:50:57 +0000

The things that bacon inspires never cease to amaze me. Next time I need to cut through a cookie sheet, I’ll know how.

Erik — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:40:47 +0000

A friend at the studio alerted me to the presence of this giant firebreathing Japanese robot. This video is a delightful presentation thereof. Enjoy!

Doomsday Curve Song

burnto — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:24:20 +0000

We recently came across the Lifeboat Foundation, a think tank studying how humanity can safeguard against war, attacks from aliens, artificial intelligence, and so on. Their Doomsday Curve musical video is magnificent.

Death by brownie.

electricworks — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:24:49 +0000

Cardboard Obama Flickr Group

burnto — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:55:21 +0000

I’ve started a new Cardboard Obama group on Flickr, curating the various situations people find themselves in when faced with a smiling, life size, two dimensional version of our new president. Please feel free to join and/or contribute your own photos of cardboard Obamas. A few highlights so far:

Jajouka!

thefinefolder — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:43:02 +0000

This was a total revelation to me. I hadn’t really known what kind of music was used in DJ/Rupture’s “No Income Tomorrowland,” and then driving home my friends Brent and Mariko from the airport last night KPFA (same excellent station which hosts Negativland’s “Over the Edge” weekly live broadcast) rocked me.

Anyway, here it is. The first track is kind of not as rocking as I would want you to have as your first track, but tracks two and track are awesome. Then it sort of slides in and out of awesomeness and newageness.

Any SFers want to go when they play at Yoshi’s?

Inauguration Photosynth

burnto — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:55:20 +0000

Via flowingdata, a Photosynth piece is now up for photos taken from the inauguration platform. So this is roughly what Obama et al were seeing, albeit with like 3 million people out there.

Photosynth smartly and automatically stitches together user photos to create an explorable 3-D environment. It gets better as more photos come in. See also the map of other synths from the inauguration.

Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present

burnto — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:32:12 +0000

The New York Times published a great interactive piece a few days ago allowing readers to explore the salient and new terms in all past U.S. inaugural speeches.

For a similar visualization of a much nerdier domain, check out my yummy tag timeline.