First off, the Star Wars ABC, which is oddly beautiful:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweedlebopper/sets/72157600166417445/detail/
Then a fantastic post by a fellow pen addict:
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/10/16/the_gel_dilemma.html
which is so me, it’s scary. Must go and buy some more pens. My favourite line was this:
if you’re going to have an argument about pens with anyone, chances are there’s a Moleskine nearby.
Brilliant
Jake Shimabukuro doing a fantastic version of George Harrison’s ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1166968&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?
More info here http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Magnetic_Movie/Magnetic.htm
An Animate Projects commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England.
Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o’clock in the morning.
Genius. Sheer genius. I know several people who need one of these. 🙂
found via the ever-wonderful swissmiss.com, original by Ji Lee
