New Math

My bestie Michael Ciancio (aka. the dragonfly) showed me this site.
It is absolutely wonderful.

http://www.morenewmath.com/

YouWorkForThem.com

I keep a close eye on this site, because it's just good. If it's new to you, visit their blog:

http://www.youworkforthem.com/blog/

where you can download a pdf of what they are all about.

Cynics vs. Romantics

"Cynics are generally right. Romantics, are generally wrong. But a romantic needs to be right only once in his life."

— Local Color

Crazy grapes

I quite enjoy that my driving instructor stares constantly at my left arm and ever so often murmurs "ahhh, I didn't notice that part before." Apparently, I converted him to an art-appreciator, in the broadest sense, and so I brought him a collection of M.C. Escher work to stare at: He, like I, should be focused on the road, mirrors, speed...

I did some research, again, on my favorite illusionist, and stumbled upon Shigeo Fukuda, who has made several 3D optical illustions. Such as the impossible triangle:

Impressed, I browsed his scuplture/video collection, and found crazy grapes:

http://www.illusionworks.com/mod/movies/fukuda/Grapes.mov

Makes you ask yourself: "What just happened?"

Bruce Peninsula takes on the Bremer Stadtmusikanten

Good band makes good poster for good fairytale.

Word treasure

Did you know the literal translation of the word "vocabulary" to German is "word treasure"?

Art & Copy

"The frightening and most difficult thing about being what someone calls a 'creative person' is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from..."

http://artandcopyfilm.com/

New York, I love you

"Don't ignore what's happening here, we are having some kind of powerful, weird alchemy, and you have to pay attention when that happens."

http://newyorkiloveyouthemovie.com/

Dork

Found at: http://team.idgrid.org/

A wish a minute

If you didn't look up at the sky tonight, don't forget to be up at the wee hours of the morning tonight, the Perseids are peaking...

A Little Bit of Trivia

Taken from Pretty Woman, this scene pretty much describes how I feel about learning to drive a stick.

Saturday night

Yiiiiiiieyyyp! It might get loud.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/itmightgetloud/

3 degrees

The cat made this collage.

The dog gave the whale a song by Grauzone: Der weg zu zweit.

I think they match well. You can listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOQtgeGUjA

And so when they sing:

Wir tragen Sterne

Wir tragen Herzen

Wir wollen lachen und wollen Scherzen

Dann wieder weinen und traurig scheinen

So muss das sein, So wird das sein

Der Weg zu zweit ist halb so weit.

They mean:

We carry stars

We carry hearts

We want to laugh, and want to joke

But then cry, and appear sad

So it must be, so it will be

With someone by your side, the path is half as far

A little corner of autumn

sometimes you stumble into old magazines...

wonderful illustrations by Alberto Cerriteno.

...and i guess this one is appropriate.

http://www.albertocerriteno.com

Life vs. iTunes Shuffle

I am sure many of you have seen chain letters/facebook posts etc., where you are asked to put your music player on shuffle and then see what song corresponds to certain questions upon pressing "next". I love these, because if you take a few minutes to think about the words of a songs name and how it maybe, just maybe, could relate to the question, it is quite awesome.

Here is my result from the most recent one I saw:

IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?

She wants to move - N.E.R.D.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?

Let's get lost - Elliot Smith

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

Balllad for the Fallen Soldiers rx - J. Period

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

No Name no. 5 - Elliot Smith

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

Ah Yom - John Frusciante

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?

The Democratic Circus - Talking Heads

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

The Model - Kraftwerk

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

Tick Tock - Raphael Saadiq

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?

Skin is, My - Andrew Bird

WHAT IS 2 + 2?

One & Only - Timbaland

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

Jus 1 kiss - Basement Jaxx

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

Underwater Love - Smoke city

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

Seven Nation Army cover - Kate Nash

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

O Green World - Gorillaz

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?

Don't Dream it's over - Crowded House

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?

Piccerella - Renato Carosone

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

You and I both - Jason Mraz

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?

Nothing even matters - Lauryn Hill

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

O Solo Mio - Beniamino Gigli

Just one photograph

After stumbling upon the trailer for the new documentary about photographer, Eddie Adams, I spent some time viewing the images featured here: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm01.html — 100 photographs that changed the world, compiled by Life magazine.

By name, I had no recollection of Eddie Adams, but one image of his does indeed remain embedded in all of our heads, changing forever the weight a photograph can carry, whether in truths or lies.

Take a moment for a photograph today.

718

Today Switzerland celebrates its independence. Only 15 years ago, was today made a national holiday.

Some fun facts about it's flag:

- other than Vatican city, it is the only flag that is square in design. Some theories are that this is to emphasize Switzerland's neutral political stance.

- the length of the cross's arms is 1/6th longer than their width, which why would explain why it looks ohhh-so-slightly off if you try making it with a + sign, in bold.

- according to it's branding, it's Pantone color is 485, and for web is FF0000, though it is not strictly controlled.

- the flag of the Red Cross is based on the design of the Swiss flag (being an inverse of design). This is an homage to Henry Dunant, the Red Cross' founder - a Swiss man.

- There was for a shirt time, a blue version of the flag (which p.s., is awesome), that belonged to the Greek Island of Icaria, which for just 5 months was an independant state back in 1912.