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Folk in a Box, Tiny Pop-Up Music Venue for One Musician, One Listener
Folk in a Box is a collapsible music venue with space for one musician and one audience member (video). It will be touring the UK…
Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, A Practical Joke TV Show Starring Senior Citizens
Betty White’s Off Their Rockers is a show hosted by legendary comedienne Betty White that is a truly hilarious Candid Camera-style practical joke show starring…
Lucky Ant, A Crowdfunding Platform for Local Small Businesses
Lucky Ant is a new Kickstarter-style crowdfunding platform specifically for local small businesses (intro video). To see the platform in action, see Brooklyn-based Pie Corps’…
Imaginawesome, Kids’ Drawings Recreated By A Professional Artist
QUENTIN, AGE 5 – CAMPER A man in a camper with an alligator and stuff like that. Imaginawesome is a really cool project by Garrett…
Clever Twitter-Based Animation for Smart Car
This clever Twitter-based animation for smart Argentina unfolds over the course of 455 Twitter messages by @smartArg. Each tweet is an ASCII art animation frame—the…
Google+ Rolls Out An Updated Clean Design & Better Functionality
Google has started rolling out a new design on Google+ that is cleaner and more functional for its users. Some of these updates include expanded…
Laughing Squid Ranked #29 in the Top 100 Blogs
I haven’t looked at the Technorati Top 100 list a while, but we are now at #29 on the list. I noticed this when reading…
Architectural Criticism Translated
Grant Snider helps translate architectural criticism in his latest installment of Incidental Comics. Prints are available in his online shop.
Pancakes, Butter & Syrup Quilt with Bacon Rug
In 1973, British-born artist Ros Cross created Pancakes, Butter & Syrup Quilt with Bacon Rug, a full-sized soft sculpture art quilt as a “response to…
Montage of Stunt Footage Captured by Canon 5D Crash Cameras
“Crash Cam” is a montage of stunning film and TV stunt footage captured by director of photography Shane Hurlburt with the help of some very…