Archive: August 13, 2009

Ok, this is just as geeky as the last post about waves and scrollbars, but I swear it’s worth your time. Mr.doob (not me) has created this depth of field plane using 300 spheres that turn into a cube and then into a larger sphere. The animation might run a bit slow on some systems, [...]

Scrollbars Experiment from Yazev on Vimeo. Over at the389, you can play around with this javascript scrollbar experiment that turns a bunch of scrollbars into waves. It’s part of the Chrome Experiments website which also has a lot of awesome fun javascript goodies to play with. [via]

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The answer? NEVER. I’m finding Flash increasingly useless and prohibiting when it comes to getting a good user-experience out of the web. I understand that Flash has been around long enough to make it nearly impossible to eradicate overnight, but for the love of God, please stop making entire websites out of Flash. Ads, banners, [...]

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My movie reviews are pretty shallow all around, so don’t expect me to say much about this film except that it was just “ok” and that I really, really, really think Margarita Levieva is gorgeous. That’s all. Would I buy the DVD? Probably not. And don’t be fooled by the chirpy tune of the trailer [...]

Grant Hamilton, who I’ve posted about previously for his wonderfully abstract Polaroid photos, has a new documentary coming out in 2010 that explores the artists who still use Polaroid film and the man who is trying to save the film format from total extinction. The documentary is called TIME ZERO: the last year of Polaroid [...]

It’s not the best of quality, but here is Mute Math playing “The Nerve” at Summer Sonic 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. Mute Math’s album Armistice is set to be released on August 18, 2009!