Archive: August 19, 2010

Theatre of War from Richard Mosse on Vimeo. Theatre of War is a beautifully filmed video by Richard Mosee and Trevor Tweeten (with color and post production by Jerome Thelia) shot from the ruined former palace of Saddam Hussein. The palace which was once one of the wealthiest locations in all of Iraq has been [...]

By manipulating the RPM of a record player and the shutter speed of a camera, this person was able to capture and reveal hidden animations spinning in circles on top of this record player. Neat, eh?

Darren Solomon of Science for Girls created this interesting collaborative project called In Bb 2.0 (In B Flat) that basically allows you to create a new piece of music using pre-recorded samples of YouTube videos which are also in B flat. You can play and pause the collection of videos whenever you like and you [...]

Volleys, Australia’s ultra-budget sneaker has finally come State-side (sans the Dunlop name) and the company has sent over a pair for me to check out. As I expected, this shoe makes no changes from its simple and excellent Australian counterpart except for the more detailed “V” logo at the heel of the shoe. The sizing [...]

I’ve seen it all now, including this Tumblr dedicated to photoshopping Robert Downey, Jr.’s face onto pin-up girls’ bodies. Sorta awesome and sorta creepy.

To promote the Volkswagen Polo GTI, VW took over a supermarket and outfitted some of the shopping carts there with skateboards to speed things up a bit. The result is a fun video that shows how supermarkets ought to be.