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The 10th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest
The 10th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest, a free two-day celebration of small-press publishing conference featuring “more than 150 writers, cartoonists, crafters, illustrators, printmakers, and…
Excuse by The Ettes, Very Low Budget Music Video With Patton Oswalt
Excuse by The Ettes, is probably the best low budget music video (that should have been a very high budget one) complete with an apologetic…
Gimme Bar Saves Pieces of the Web to a Personal Library
Gimme Bar by Fictive Kin is a web app that allows the user to save virtually any piece of the web to a personal library,…
Real World Facebook Like Button
“Like This”, 2011 Interactive Object 29 x 47 x 4 cm Wood, Acrylic, Alkyd Paint, VFD-Display, Arduino Munich-based “computational artisan”, Mario Klingemann, created the interactive…
Vizualize.Me Creates Infographic Resumés from LinkedIn Profiles
Vizualize.Me is a web app that creates an infographic resumé from a LinkedIn user profile. The service is currently in closed beta, but you can…
Willie Nelson Covers Coldplay In Sustainable Farming Animated Promo
Country music legend Willie Nelson covers the hit song, The Scientist by alt-rock band Coldplay, in this pro-sustainable farming stop-motion animated short titled Back…
Epic Win Book Release Party, Cole Stryker’s 4Chan & Anonymous Book
Here are a few photos of last night’s book release party for Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan’s Army Conquered the Web, a new book…
Surfers Riding Waves With a Lit Flare Attached To Back of Surfboard
Professional surfer Bruce Irons describes how he and his team of surfers were riding waves with a lit flare in Mentawai Islands in Sumatra, Indonesia…
Cat Shows How To Trap Another Cat in a Box
Here’s a cat demonstrating how easy it is to trap another cat in a box in order to gain the approval of a mini…
Rock Seen, A Book by Legendary Rock & Roll Photographer Bob Gruen
Bob Gruen has been capturing the rockstar scene like no other and many of his images are included in his first hardcover book, Rock Seen