A wonderful little audio experiment:
Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.
More cute!
September 2009 Archives
Tom the Dancing Bug illustrating just how the banks have been punished in the wake of the global financial crisis. It’s funny until you realise there’s nothing funny about it, at all.
If you were to cross Smack My Bitch Up and Run, Lola, Run, you’d end up with something like this.
Via MacTalk News, delightfully.
Australian blog TV Tonight is reporting that Foxtel will be offering legal TV downloads:
Each file will come with a 7 day license. Box Office titles (which attract a fee) are playable for 48 hours.
Too bad that it’s going to be wrapped up in DRM, and you’ll need to download the catchily-named “Foxtel Download Player” to play it (which will be Windows-only, presumably). Still, a step in the right direction.
Has the world finally gone mad? Creative Review reports that the map of London’s Underground, one of design’s most enduring classics, has undergone surgery to remove the river Thames.
Fortunately the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has spluttered words to the effect that this kind of insubordination is beyond the pale and it shall be reinstated as soon as he has finished elevenses. Well. I should jolly well think so.
Advertising Age reports that the UK is going to allow product placement for the first time.
In the country’s most popular soap, “Coronation Street,” customers at the Rover’s Return pub drink a fictional beer, Newton & Ridley, served on beer mats bearing the mock brewer’s logo. Viewers are used to seeing actors and presenters picking up bottles in such a way as to disguise the brand name, and even to seeing logos covered up with tape. When “American Idol” is shown in Britain, the Coke logo on Mr. Cowell’s cup is pixillated in an attempt to disguise it.
(“Pixillated”? What, replaced with a pixie?)
(Upon further investigation I’ve discovered that “pixillated” is an acceptable spelling. I still contend, however, that digitally replacing the cup with a pixie or other small mythical beast would be an effective - and entertaining - way to avoid product placement issues.)
Here’s a new show with an unlikely cast that I suspect will prove amusing. Premieres September 30 or whatever.
Jason Schwartzman high-fived me once. He’s a stand-up guy.
Comedian, broadcaster, author, and senator of Minnesota: Al Franken draws the United States of America. Impressive!
Via kottke.org.
