2010nov09. pix

2010nov16. I’m expecting company so we’ll have to do Friday a few days early. This means that Wednesday is Saturday; dress/plan accordingly.

• The Big Picture: Lairs of the Elderly

  These. Are. Awesome. I need to find a subdivision I saw by air flying over Las Vegas in which a tight core of mega-megamansions were ringed by successive halos of lesser-megamansions.

• A 16-year-old Dutch woman’s photograph is taken in 1936 via an automatic tripping mechanism every time she hits the target at a shooting gallery. She has

  a few more photos taken. [via metafilter]

• But Does It Float: Compositions of speeds and slownesses on a plane of immanence

• Skywalker’s Parade,

  celebrating celebrating our solar system’s “formal acceptance into the universe.”

• Comic. Three Word Phrase: Lobster | Superfun

• How ya doin’ how ya doin’ how ya doin’.

  Great, great, you’re a great crowd. Hey! Hey! Have you heard about the one about

  the man who traveled on an airline and got peanuts? Hey! Thank you thank – what? I just got on!

• The most expensive mistake you’ve ever made.

  Via waxy.org

• Tom Sachs: photos of studio | biography | Nutsy’s (watch videos, especially the last one, “Nutsy’s McDonald’s”) | A visit to Nutsy’s

• Paris Review interviews: ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED | Kurt Vonnegut

  | Hunter S. Thompson

• Game. Flabby Physics. It’s physics ... but f l a b b y

• Game. Achievement Unlocked #2. It is from earlier this year. I hope you achieve something in this game. It is difficult, the achieving. “Welcome to metagaming hell.”

• Video. Coilhouse: When Does A Dream Become A Nightmare? Warning: Contains Olson Twins But That’s The Point. [FX: afterward] Look, I warned you.

• Video. Linotype: The Film Trailer. I’ve wanted a Linotype machine for ten thousand years now. This will have to do in the meantime. Let’s also watch Typesetting: Linotype I and Typesetting: Linotype II: Sweet Redemption. My favorite part: Rome. I mean, the spaceband.

• Video. Natasha Schüll at Gel 2008. An anthropologist takes a look at the gambling industry, more specifically slot machines. [via a whole lotta nothing]

• Video. Bagger 288. [via coilhouse]

• Video. David A. Smith, sign artist.

• Video: International Lindy Hop Championships Showcase: Max & Annie

  [via metafilter]

• Music. Cat Power: Nude as the News (1997)

2010dec17. Friday. It is a traditional time of yap yap yap etc. I want egg nog. Where is?

• The art and the whitewash are the art.

  This is the politics of the whitewash; someone else has already suggested that the form of the whitewash is also art, if it’s not engulfing an entire surface area. Extrapolating from that, I think there’s an artist who actually goes around just putting up chunky whitewash-like abstract forms on blank walls in a contrasting color, leaving the impression that graffiti was underneath. Or that was a fever dream I had.

• “South America, take it away!” Florida was released. WE CAN DO THIS, REST OF AMERICA There are some great little things happening here,

  my favorite being the moment he sets the saw down and it makes a “clunk.”

• Very Small Array: United States of Autocomplete

• Ed Debevic’s ... Dick’s Last Resort ... Grandma Maids Cafeteria!

• An important graphic design lesson.

• More Muffinfilms. From 2000! Remember? Muffins.

• Images: ASBESTOS!

• Image: Great job, Chip.

• QF32 blow-by-blow.

  I like this excerpt that has the crew punching in landing scenarios into the flight computer, but it doesn’t know it’s a nice day out. “Putting in the ten items affecting landing performance on the initial pass, the computation failed. It gave a message saying it was unable to calculate that many failures. So we then looked at them in more detail and rejected ones that we considered minor and things that were affecting landing performance on wet runways. It was a beautiful day in Singapore thankfully and not wet so it obviously wasn’t going to affect our landing performance.” Dear computer, it is a sunny day! Love, your crew. [via metafilter]

• Video: Bottle

  by Kirsten Lepore.

• Video: Chris Burden. Metropolis II.

  Mr. Burden’s other works include a paper airplane-making machine, being nailed to a Volkswagen “Bug,” getting shot in the arm, and shooting at a departing 747 just outside an airport.

• Video: Tableau by John Kestner. [via kc]

• Audio: Judge John Hodgman. Episode 5: Long Necked Custody Battle

• Audio: Hooverphonic. 2 Wicky

• Audio: Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. Shopper’s Paradise

• Video: Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 physics simulator

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