Lately I’ve been playing a lot of card games. My cousin says that therapists and mental hospital workers often carry a deck of cards on them because a deck of cards can be phenomenally helpful in treating these patients. A deck of cards extends well beyond age, gender, and race, and that is one of the reasons why they are so useful to psychiatric doctors. Just a little something I learned.
Anyway, I’ve been playing a lot of card games lately and I’ve come to realize how much fun they are again. The other day, I played Heart Attack until 4:30 in the morning and then tonight I played Spades for 3 straight hours. If there’s a good way to pass some time, I think cards are the new old thing to get into. Haha, I’m totally talking outta my butt, but I do think card games are fun again! :)
I just put in my new power supply and video card. To test the two to the extreme, I installed Doom 3 and played it at the highest possible settings. Let’s just say that the two new hardware components work well, because for the first time ever, I was scared to play a computer game! Doom 3 is friggin’ nuts! Things pop out of nowhere and start clawing at you. My goodness, this new video card sure does render video games to the max. And hey, even though it’s scary, Doom 3 was fun to play because my computer can now handle the graphics. Nice.
Check out this visual representation of the most popular Flickr tags of each day, starting from June 4, 2004. It’s very nice to see this in such a format. When you click on a tag that’s rolling by, it opens up several images from Flickr pertaining to that tag. I wonder how hard it was to come up with this idea and to make it look as good as it does.
You can read more about the project at the Yahoo! research page.
I just came across this saved video link in my bookmarks and I laughed hard all over again. This little black kid talks like no other and I think it’s partially his accent that makes him so funny. Watch the Good Doctor video for Trigon Bluecross Blueshield.
Here’s an extensive look at Mario through the years. I recognized most of the games, but some of them were just completely new to me. Maybe it’s because I haven’t ever actually even touched a Gamecube.
Man, we sure do listen to stupid music compared to people in the UK.
Remember that Flickr set of transparent desktop screens? Those were cool huh? Well, now people are doing transparent PSPs! And pretty soon, transparent ______s will be out too! I can’t wait! [via]
I was browsing Waxy and came across this link to see what web pages would look like as graphs (you can see any website as a graph by entering the URL here). From there, I saw a link to onethousandpaintings, a most unusual art project where the numbers 1 to 1000 are painted once in the exact same way on a canvas. Each painting (or #) is then up for sale and can be bought by anyone. I am so jealous of people who come up with such simple yet profitable art concepts!
Heh, I like the plant photo for May 27. Yes, I still update there too.
Of course, it’s Sunday, so that means new secrets are out!
What a weekend! Stay cool guys! It’s HOT out! :D
kind of overpriced for a square with a number in it aint it? lol
Well, from the site:
“Generally, the value of a number is defined by the number itself, in the following way: value = 1000 – number. However, this is only the maximum price. Initially, a discount of 90% applies. This discount will decrease by an absolute 10% for every hundred paintings that are sold (for example, after 300 sold paintings, the discount will be 60%). In short, the earlier you buy your favourite number, the less you pay. For detailed information about the price development of any given number, go to the availability page and click on the “More info…” next to the number of interest.
In any case, the minimum price is $40. Shipping will be charged seperately.”
But I know what you mean.
now i get it, but i still kinda find it pointless that a random person who does this simple art project and cause a big hype about it all of a sudden makes a 12×12 blank white canvas with $.10 of blue ink on it is worth $100 or more. Its a pretty neat project I admit but to pay so much for a canvas with a number PRINTED on and not even painted on. I have much respect for pictures and many other art projects like post secret but this I dislike for some reason. So if one day in the future, I become real poor, I will take 26 12×12 canvas and have the letter printed on it, and considering there are only 26, they shall be worht thousands. and if that is a success, do the same in other languages. just an idea..
i think it’s more about the limited edition prints more than it is about the subject of the piece.