Links published in September 2006 — Going down ↓ is going back in time.
¶ Calculate your ecological footprint. If everybody lived like I do, we would need 4.2 earths to keep up. And I don’t even drive a car on a regular basis… How about you? (Via le Kottké)
¶ The new iPod nano light-saber commercial was directed by famous music video director Mark Romanek and special effects were done by L.A. based Exopolis. So now you know.
¶ My little bro sends these in and I quote: “C’est pour ça que je suis végétarien et Joyeuse Fête des Mères!” (merci Dan)
¶ Des membres de la blogosphère québécoise se foutent de ma gueule. C’est flatteur tout de même. Merci à Marie-Jo, Pat et Véro.
¶ Profitez de l’abolition du registre des armes à feu au Canada pour vous acheter un fusil de type Electrolux Deathray ou tout autre objet phallique dangereux qui saura combler vos désires. (Merci à Hugo sans petites culottes)
¶ The crazy story behind the making of Werner Herzog’s 1982 Fitzcarraldo. “One crew member was bitten by a snake with venom so poisonous that cardiac arrest typically followed within seconds. Realizing what had happened, the crew member picked up a chain saw and cut off his own foot.”
¶ Whytheyhate.us is a collection of photos tagged with whytheyhateus on Flickr. Viva America.
¶ Amis de la vie, allez voir ça, l’Œuvre avec un grand e dans l’o de Thomas Weinberger qui prend 2 exposition du même sujet—une le jour et une la nuit—pour ensuite les combiner en une seule photo. Rrravisant. (via el kottké)
¶ Ridin’ Dirty becomes White and Nerdy with Weird Al. “Got skills, I’m a champion at D&D / MC Escher – that’s my favorite MC”
¶ Flickr: 22 yo Mareen Fischinger’s and her pictures are total hotness + flickr’s best can be found in the 3000 views & 125 favored photo pool.
¶ Qu’est que tu fais quand une tornade s’en vient vers ta maison? Tu le filmes, évidemment.
¶ Breathing Earth is a flash visualisation of the rate of people being born, dying and CO2 emissions by country. Learn! Compare! Realize! (Via Pat’s Neverevernu via Coates’ Plastic Bag via …)
¶ Who Is Jonathan Ive? An in-depth look at the man (and the team) behind Apple’s design magic.
¶ In the city of Tirana, Albania, the German architects Bolles+Wilson have applied a new concept to deal with the airconditioners that flock the facades of so many buildings in the warmer places of this earth. Next item on the list: TV satellites.
¶ “What does the music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question.” And I find they do a pretty good job doing so.
¶ List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock. En anglais, mais tout de même. (via b-boing)
¶ Interview with photographer Micheal Wolf author of Architecture of Density and 100×100.
¶ The ultimate pixel City. Two thoughts: Is there something missing in this city? And two: why isn’t anybody doing the same thing as the million dollar homepage and selling pixel real estate?
¶ À mes amis musiciens/compositeurs: how to write a fugue. (Il utilise du B. Spears comme mélodie initiale.)
¶ State Of Emergency is a fashion photoshoot à la war-on-terrorism photojournalism style. Photographed by Steven Meisel.
¶ Biomedical Image Awards 2006. Its funny how we have awards for everything. (Merci Fraaaancis!)
¶ Download movies online through Amazon Unbox. Looks like they beat everyone to it. V for Vendetta is 14$ and a 2.2 GB download. Apple is supposedly releasing the same kind of service tommorow.
¶ Learningsite : an art and architecture collective that has to do with everyday life.
¶ Reversa: voyez les effets secondaires. Attention, ce site web peut choquer les femmes de moins de 35 ans. (merci Francis)
¶ MJ, you’ll like this one: The Multiplayer Game Of The Year isn’t really played on screen.
¶ ‘Where babies come from’ in German brute style. I don’t think it can get clearer than this. The illustrator must have had fun doing this one. And i’m sure the text is as crude.
¶ Ok, so no, THIS is the best link this week: Don’t you find all this Middle Eastern brouhaha complicated? Don’t you wish you had a simple summarized chart to get it all? Look no further. It’s fun to see such complicated and history-heavy relationships brought down to simple icons.
¶ This is a good trailer. I mean, I don’t know about the film but the trailer is very good.
¶ Shakira’s Hips don’t Lie redneck style. Now where’s that 10,000 reasons civilisation is doomed list.
¶ What does Bugs Bunny’s skeleton look like? There is an exibition going on in China displaying just that: skeletons of animation caracters. I have no idea if it was inspired by Micheal Paulus skeleton drawings that were circulating on the web a while ago.