Archive: April 15, 2010

Photo: AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty I’m a sucker for manufacturing videos, so watching this video below of sardines being canned at the Stinson Seafood Plant was great. Unfortunately, there’s not much good news when it comes to US sardine canning, as this particular plant will be closing at the end of this week. Its closing [...]

Skylar over at idsgn has an incredibly thorough look at the design behind the recently announced Adobe Creative Suite 5. It turns out that a good portion of the splash screens for each application within CS5 were inspired by the iconography from te 1972 Munich Olympics (designed by Otl Aichera). It’s interesting to read this [...]

13th Witness has made this video for John Mayer to sum up parts of his Battle Studies tour. The song 13th Witness chose is “Edge of Desire” off of the Battle Studies album, which coincidentally, is one of my favorites off of the CD. Doesn’t this just make you love John Mayer all over again?

Eugene Golant and Max Sitnikov have written a song about Sheepshead Bay, a modest little part of Brooklyn, to the tune of “Penny Lane” by The Beatles. For some reason, this reminds me of my friend Yelena. [via]

Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’HANSON | MySpace Music Videos I’ll never quite understand why bands decide to release their music videos exclusively on Myspace Video, but whatever. Here’s the official music video for “Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’” by Hanson. If you want to see the video a bit bigger, you can watch it on the Myspace page.

The days of searching through a hierarchy of folders is gone! Gmail now supports drag and drop uploads. Yay! Look at the demo video I made above if you don’t believe me! No plugins required on Chrome or Firefox.