In January I posted about Todd Bieber and his efforts to find the owners of a recovered film canister by spreading a YouTube video around the internet. Turns out, IT WORKED! Click through to watch the story unfold.
Here are some sights and sounds for your sore ears and eyes. Alex Chen, who works at Google’s Creative Lab in Brooklyn developed an interactive musical instrument based on HTML5. It uses the New York Subway System’s real schedule and is based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 subway diagram. When you visit the site, it begins in real time and slowly accelerates using the real 24 hour schedule. As trains’ paths cross, they “pluck” each other’s routes like guitar strings, creating a blissful alternative to their normal screeching noises.
Watch the screen capture of it in action after the jump, or head over to MTA.me to take a musical ride on the subway for yourself.
As @RaygunRay puts it this is, “yet another set of…travel posters“. His being of Star Wars scenes, these being of comic book cities. The WPA poster ideas are getting played out, but I still really like these. Maybe because I always wanted to grow up to be Batman. We all know how that turn out (I’m not Batman).
Most racial maps lump groups of people in to blobs that make it difficult to see what the real meshing of ethnic groups is like, so inspired by Bill Rankin’s Chicago Map, Eric Fischer created maps of many US cities using a similar methodology. Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian and Orange is Hispanic. Gray is other and each dot represents 25 people.
The above map details Austin’s makeup as of the 2000 census, but after the jump we’ve got a few of the bigger cities around the US for your perusal. It’s important to note something something that Andrew Price of GOOD wrote about these maps:
What do we, as a society, want to see in maps like this? I think it’s safe to say that the clear separation of races in Detroit is a symptom (or cause) of serious social problems. At the same time, it seems unrealistic to expect perfect integration and it’s unclear if we should want that anyway. It’s great that our cities have vibrant ethnic neighborhoods.
Hey New York folks, my beloved friend and former professor, Kate Bingaman-Burt, will be at the Jen Bekman Gallery this Thursday! Kate will be signing copies of her book, drawing people’s purchases and encouraging you to draw too! Don’t miss this opportunity to meet her, unless you hate nice people who make cool things. Be careful, Kate’s positive energy and enthusiasm is ultra contagious!
Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.
It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.
Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.
Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?
Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.
One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”
One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.
How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?
It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?
While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!
Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.
This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.
Darth Vader blows some hot air.
You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.
That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.
Hey Portland! Cheat Local!
Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.
It’s the cartoon color wheel.
What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?
If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.
Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.
I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.
Let’s all have a meat machine dance party!
Shredder wants you for the foot.
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