July 17, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
Planet5D posted this totally awesome music video shot with a Canon 5D Mark II with a Panavision movie lens attachment. As far as I know, there isn’t an official Panavision movie lens adapter for Canon SLR’s, so it looks like Axel Gimenez created his own and then shot the music video below for the song “Secret” by Cynic Guru. Beautiful, ain’t it?
May 5, 2009 @ 4:53 pm
This is one of the most fascinating pieces I’ve read at WIRED. It’s about a sculptural installation at CIA headquarters that’s become one of the hardest known cryptic codes to decipher and it’s driving some people mad. The sculpture, called Kryptos, was created by artist James Sanborn and many believe him to be the only person in the world with any clue to the answer of the entire code.
Kryptos is split into 4 difference sections (K1, K2, K3, and K4). Three of those 4 sections have been decoded but the last section, K4, seems to have the entire code-cracking community scratching their heads. The search for the answer has gotten so insane that some people have scrutinized every single word uttered by Sanborn in hopes that maybe he might slip the answer or that his words have some kind of connection to the answer.
The WIRED article goes quite in depth into how the code was cracked and how the first 3 sections are translated. If you’ve got some time, you might want to read about it. Does anybody know if you can go and see this sculpture? Or is it only reserved for people on the CIA campus?
March 4, 2009 @ 1:06 am
If PostSecret and Twitter got together, the result would be this: secrettweet.
SecretTweet is a site that allows anybody to submit a secret without having to buy any postage. All secrets are guaranteed to be 140 characters or less (good for quick reads), but you sacrifice the visual element of the secrets made prominent by PostSecret. Still, it’s a good way to satisfy your secret-crave mid-week while PostSecret sits dormant.
The secrets posted to the front page of secrettweet are all approved by an admin, but if you want the unabridged and potentially offensive/inappropriate version, you can go to the unabridged portion of the site and read the secret tweets as they roll in.
Thanks Yelena!
February 19, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
Wieden & Kennedy Portland created this funny Coca-Cola ad about the trade secret formula behind Coke. I’ve always wondered what would happen to certain companies if they’re secret formulas for their products were stolen, lost, or damaged. Of course, the story here isn’t true. It’s just part of the marketing strategy behind Coke.
Download the commercial at Motionographer (full credits there as well).
