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Once Upon a Time, No One Knew What DC Shoes Were.

Hillel Dov — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:01:44 +0000

Remember how you first found out about DC Shoes? You found them in your CCS and they were the coolest sneakers in the entire catalog. That small sneaker company, among a litany of other achievements, just became holder of the title, “10th most viewed viral video.”

Tired of Reading?

Chandra — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:22:33 +0000

Better Book Titles does for books what those movie trailers that cover the entire story arc do for movies. Comedian Dan Wilbur posts a new title rewrite each day. The result is a funny, painfully true synopses for classics and blockbuster bestsellers alike.

Kaws X Dos Equis

Hillel Dov — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:59:49 +0000

“Production company Another Company commissioned street artist KAWS for this video teaser for Cerveza Dos Equis. The video documents the artist creating the brand identity for the new Dos Equis packaging featuring the iconic KAWS double X. The pairing between artist and brand is almost a perfect match as the double X is a shared element in both the existing brandmark, and well as a key element in most of the artist’s works to date.” via Hypebeast

DRM – Three Letters That Make Your Life Suck

Hillel Dov — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00:40 +0000

There is simply no other group of three letters that has a bigger impact on the way we use technology. DRM is the bane of your existence and you may not even know it. It was created under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as an attempt by legislators to protect copyright holders’ wealth, as digital copying became ubiquitous. The only problem is that it was outdated in a matter of months, possibly days and, in some people’s perceptions, instantaneously. Suddenly, all that sharing we were doing ended. But then, we couldn’t even copy our own music for ourselves. I couldn’t share that which I legally purchased with friends like we used to with mix tapes.

Thankfully, change is a brew. Check out Gizmodo’s full-coverage of the recent revisions to the act, carried out by the Librarian himself.

Avatar & Alien are the Same Goddamn Movie

Hillel Dov — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:00:10 +0000

We’ve been fans of The Oatmeal for a long time. If we posted all the work of his we like, well, that would be all of our content. But this particular comic is different and needed special attention. Instead of his ironically-campy style of comics filled with the killer-pterodactyls that make you laugh and wonder what kind of mind concocts these scenarios, Inman just seems pist. The lack of illustrations underscoring Inman’s scorn, as if to say, “Cameron, you’re not even worth the time it takes to draw you.”

The Oatmeal – Avatar and Aliens are the same goddamn movie.

So Played

Chandra — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:04:54 +0000

Plenty of categories of “artists” have been discovered on YouTube – makeup (Lauren Luke), recording (Justin Bieber), performance (Cris Crocker; seriously, leave Britney alone) – but no artist artists. All that’s about to change today.

The Guggenheim Museum is collaborating with YouTube to find a video artist to showcase at all Guggenheim Museums – New York, Berlin, Bilbao and Venice – on Oct. 21, with the videos playing to the Internet (on the YouTube Play channel) and New York (at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) public from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24.

You could become a famous artist by posting your work on YouTube and then submitting it at youtube.com/play by July 31. But don’t look to collect any Internet money.

Christoph Niemann’s Latest

Hillel Dov — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:27:23 +0000

The dot com.

Zelda Meets Google Maps, Hyrule to Dominate

Hillel Dov — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:52:00 +0000

I mostly posted this because it has to do with New York and 8-bit graphics. However, creator Brett Camper has more to say: “8-Bit NYC is an attempt to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally common models of space: the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games, and the geographically accurate data that drives today’s web maps and GPS navigation. I hope to evoke the same urge for exploration, abstract sense of scale, and perhaps most importantly unbounded excitement that many of us remember experiencing on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Commodore 64, or any other number of 8-bit microcomputers. Maps offer us visual architectures of the world, encouraging us to think about and interact with space in particularly constrained ways. Take some time to think about New York a little differently. Set out on a quest. Be an adventurer.”