Category: cool finds

  • Web Kitsch

    Yes, the website is now an old enough artform to have its own kitsch. (As well as being a fantastic medium for the photographic record of more material kitsch objects). I love the kitschy enthusiasm with which it is described as well: Like beanbag chairs, lava lights, plastic lawn flamingos, or an old showing of…

  • ColorMatch Remix

    This is the best of the color scheme generators out there: ColorMatch Remix. from tim boucher.

  • make your own church sign

    I made this one as a tribute to the brilliant work of jebni at antipopper, but you can make your own (via uber-coolhunter lorbus): Speaking of antipopper, a recent post there takes us along on a fascinating wander through hobbyist production, consumer desire, and the politics of the boycott.

  • Hardware Mashups

    Via things magazine, I came across Bootleg Objects, which is an interesting project that questions the neat analog-retro vs. techno-futurist-digital divide. A 1970s Bang and Olufsen hi-fi repurposed as DVD player, a Technics turntable that doesn’t turn, displaying cutouts of vintage record covers instead. I like.

  • monty python in LEGO

    In the emerging tradition of weekend blogging, here is a post concerned exclusively with silliness. You have to love Monty Python to get this – and if you don’t love Monty Python, then what, may I ask, is wrong with you? At iFilm you can watch the “knights of the roundtable” song-and-dance scene from The…

  • Layout-o-matic

    I don’t know about you, but every time an attack of redesignitis has hit me, the initial euphoria of a fresh new layout has been quickly followed by hours of late-night panic as I try to repair whatever insults or injuries I have done to my style sheets. If your mental health is more important…

  • know your “techno”

    ishkur’s guide to electronic music v2.0 is online. It’s a Flash presentation with 100+ genres well mapped out according to stylistic affinities as well as chronological “development”. You have to question the linear evolution model, but once you get past the long-winded intro animation, it’s all good fun, and there are multiple audio examples for…

  • (Im)possible Machines

    Retro-futurist inventions created by artist Tom Jennings at WPS:Products.

  • Fly, be Free!

    Check this out as an example of both an unfettered gift economy and creative ‘consumption’: BookCrossing The ‘3 Rs’ of BookCrossing Read a good book (you already know how to do that) Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book Release it for someone…

  • Retro Chic Moves On

    SHoLtZ ViTRiNe asserts that the retro chic army has turned to obsolescent digital technology in search of that all-important grunge factor (although without quite forgetting that whole “analog is warmer” argument). “MP3 players suck.” Says Garry Banes of Time To Drive magazine. “That bloody ‘squishy’ sound that makes tasty cymbal sound like Biros on tabletops.…