Inspired by the Total Eclipse Of The Heart flow chart, love all this created the Hey Jude Flow Chart to help you unravel one of The Beatles’ most complicated songs.
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“San Francisco’s People”, a beautiful video by Philip Bloom shot on a Canon 5D MKII.
The music is “Taxi Driver” by Bernard Herrmann.
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Ryan Dunlavey has created a bunch of great comic strip/super hero/sci-fi mashups, including the wonderful “Fantastic Family Circus”.
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A sneak preview of the new 6 part web-based animated series “Anthony Bourdain’s Alternate Universe” coming to the Travel Channel in 2010, featuring Anthony Bourdain of “No Reservations”.
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Spider Ball, an annual fundraiser for the Black Rock Arts Foundation takes place on Halloween, this Saturday, October 31st at The Bently Reserve in San Francisco.
Spider Ball is an annual fundraising Halloween extravaganza hosted in tandem by The Bently Reserve and Playa Love, a Burning Man camp dedicated to promoting local organizations and communities both on the playa and at home. Thrown at the historic Bently Reserve, it is a halloween celebration with an underground approach of decadence and elegance that is all freak and funk. There is the main banking hall hosting the main stage performances, beds to chill around the perimeter, a separate chill room and 6 bars.
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guest post by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics)
photos by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics)
Sure, it’s fun to fly over San Francisco with Google Earth, but there’s no substitute for the real thing.
I recently had the opportunity to buzz the city in a humble Cessna 182 “Skylane.” We departed from Palo Alto under blue skies, then headed north above Highway 101, crossed over SFO right above the runways (the safest way for a low-flying plane to transit an airport is to fly directly over it), then reached San Francisco. At an altitude of about 1500 feet, we made a few loops over The Mission, got eye-to-eye with Sutro Tower, then did a pass over Sausalito and the Marin Headlands before turning east to fly right over the Golden Gate Bridge.
The weather was perfect for photography, so my shutter-finger got a major workout. Hope you enjoy the photos I took during the flight!
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guest post by Josh Ellingson
Artist Jeremy Mayer creates striking representations of human anatomy using only typewriter parts. Mayer doesn’t weld or glue any of the components, preferring rather that the pieces hold together naturally. The resulting biomechanical artwork transcends “steampunk” aesthetic and clicks neatly into place among surrealists like H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. You can follow Jeremy Mayer on Twitter (@jeremymayer) or view a live webcam feed from his Palo Alto studio here.
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photos by diabetik
Street artist diabetik has been installing “Candy Corn” traffic cones around the streets of Washington DC for Halloween. Back in April it was Peeps for Easter.
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photo by Troy Holden
Troy Holden shot a great photo of the “Fear Heads” mural on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin District that was created as part of the “Wonderland” artists series.
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guest post by mikl-em
Jerry Seinfeld made his 1981 debut on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, so young he looks like he’s could have just come from his Bar Mitzvah. You can see where he’s headed, but he’s definitely not there yet.
YouTube has an even earlier clip of Seinfeled on something called “Celebrity Cabaret” in 1977. Definitely in that awkward phase.
Here is a compilation of other comedians making their first stand-up appearance on the Tonight Show. Including David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Eddie Murphy. I think that is Johnny Carson himself that you can hear kinda mumbling along appreciatively (also awkwardly) while he re-watches the video.
It’s fun to see the current comedy old guard in their early days. For one thing it’s a mad fashion slalom course to see what stand-up’s were wearing in the 70’s and 80’s. Leno shows tremendous commitment to a single color there.
And, yes, that’s right, someone hosted The Tonight Show prior to Leno. In fact there was someone before Carson, too.
Lastly, here’s Steven Wright’s first time on the Tonight Show or TV at all. It’s worth seeing the interview with him at the end–it turns out that a scout for Carson just called him out of the blue to invite him on the show.
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photo by Adam
Adam, who used to work for us at Laughing Squid, recently proposed to his girlfriend Christina using an engagement ring that he designed and his friend Adam created using a MakerBot 3D Printer at the Hive76 hackerspace in Philadelphia.
MakerBot even sent the couple an engagement gift.
Congratulations Adam & Christina!
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photo via frosti
Holy hipster heros Batman, it’s the Robin Hoodie, made by frosti.
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Cory Doctorow has just released his latest novel “Makers”, “a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet.” Here’s where to find print versions of the book for sale and an electronic version can be downloaded for free under a Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester’s. Together, they transform the country, and Andrea Fleeks, a journo-turned-blogger, is there to document it.
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On a recent episode of The Jay Leno Show, Rainn Wilson shows us how to pull off Halloween Super-Pranks. The home’s occupant wasn’t too pleased.
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TashaMarie has posted photos of a M·A·C Cosmetics makeup artist turning a model into a real life comic book character for Halloween.
UPDATE: Several readers have suggested that the makeup might be a tribute to the comic book style paintings of Roy Lichtenstein.
via Geekologie
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Master juggler Michael Moschen performs “The Triangle”.
UPDATE: Here’s the missing finale:
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“I Love xkcd” by Noam Raby, an animated version of “xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel”.
Here’s the original “I Love the World” Discovery Channel commercial.
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“The Carlsbad Temptress” is a public art installation by Bryan Snyder that interacts with it’s environment, moving when the wind blows. The goal of the project is to “showcase the relationship between a piece of art and its location when place in the streets”. Previously Bryan created the “Carlsbad Sidewalk Surfer”.
The sound of music whips in the mid day wind as sensual curves hypnotize the steady flow of village on lookers. Long legs dance to the rhythmic beats of nature, before falling still to the sound of silence. The forest green dress falls long over he smooth skin and a seductive wink tumbles towards the crowd.
photo by Bryan Snyder
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