It’s 2015 baby! Is it time to dust away the cobwebs and start on that new regimen of lifestyle changes? Is it? I don’t put much stock in new year’s resolutions. Any day is a good day to begin the rest of your life. Without getting all Dr. Phil on your ass, here are someContinue reading “Winning Life’s Trifecta”
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The Thrill of The Hunt for Cassettes in the 80’s and 90’s
Art is what you get when you combine sharpies, pencils, cassette tapes, ancient Word Processors and a whole lot of passion for music. Here’s Steve Vistaunet’s labour of love that will give anybody over the age of 30, fond and sad stabs of nostalgia for times past. Has The Thrill Of Getting Your Hands onContinue reading “The Thrill of The Hunt for Cassettes in the 80’s and 90’s”
Six Words To Use In Business Meetings That You’ve Never Heard Before
These words are brilliantly archaic and devilishly cheeky. They should be employed in those workday moments when you want to have a good laugh. Or if you simply want to shoot the breeze and have a more interesting water-cooler conversation. Pedeconferencing Pedeconferencing is the sensation of holding a meeting while on the move, with coffee in handContinue reading “Six Words To Use In Business Meetings That You’ve Never Heard Before”
Free Storytelling Tool Demonstrates Game of Thrones Map
Geo-located map apps are fun to make and fun for the audience to engage with. These storytelling tools have huge potential when the story is map-based. StoryMap can implement multimedia, text and interactivity along with location relevance. StoryMapJS is the brainchild of Northerwestern Univeristy Knight Lab and is a digital storyteller’s dream. To demonstrate it’sContinue reading “Free Storytelling Tool Demonstrates Game of Thrones Map”
Living With Sonder: Life Above the Clouds
Taken in the San Francisco Bay area over a period of a few years by talented man Simon Christen, these exquisite time lapse films track the earth on its diurnal and nocturnal turnings, normally so ineffable and unknowable because they occur so slowly. It’s a macrocosm and a microcosm of pure thriving, living magic. It’sContinue reading “Living With Sonder: Life Above the Clouds”
What Makes a GIF into Something Great
There’s no cut and dry answer to this question. Infact, typing ‘What makes a GIF into something great’ into Google gives almost no search results, only instructional guides about how to make GIFs. We’ve already discussed Scorpion Daggers’ great work. This has led me to writing something on what constitutes a great GIF. They visibly skip:Continue reading “What Makes a GIF into Something Great”
Scorpion Dagger: The Renaissance Needs More Pizza and Beer
Haunting, weird, controversial and wickedly funny, these gifs created by James Kerr A.K.A Scorpion Dagger are made from parts of well-known Renaissance paintings along with the flotsam and jetsam of his insane imagination. Renaissance and Medieval art has been hitherto considered too high brow to be messed with. Although Scorpion Dagger proves that anything isContinue reading “Scorpion Dagger: The Renaissance Needs More Pizza and Beer”
Welcome to Melbourne’s Rapidly Vanishing World
In just about any city, formerly unfashionable places undergo rapid revamps. Suddenly overnight, these shabby, overlooked places become cool. It’s a fickle and inevitable transformation. A sublimination and muting of tastes into the oblivion of current fashion. This is the case in Melbourne’s western suburbs: Altona, Seddon, Footscray, Yarraville, Sunshine and Newport. Every city withContinue reading “Welcome to Melbourne’s Rapidly Vanishing World”
Leviathan or Lilliputian?
Great photography plays around with our perceptions of big and small. Here are two examples where it’s difficult to tell at first whether or not we’re looking at leviathan or lilliputian objects. Sam O’Hare’s New York City This is actually real and big rendering of NYC teeming with life. The illusion of smallness comes fromContinue reading “Leviathan or Lilliputian?”
Historic Jukebox: Jamie XX & Edgar Allan Poe
Be transported into a different reality. With these floating, untethered words and music that I’ve curated or stumbled upon accidentally. In any case they are evocative and inspire deep escapism and magical voyages into the history of the world. Enjoy! There will be more Historic Jukebox to come! Instructions 1. Play Video. 2. Read Text.Continue reading “Historic Jukebox: Jamie XX & Edgar Allan Poe”
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