Similar to the dispelling of radiation hyperbole, xkcd makes good on breaking down money in the year 2011.

This is an impressive light show projection in New York called The Snowflake & Bubble Spectacular. Commissioned by Saks Fifth Avenue for their holiday season, this was developed by marketing firm Iris, whose works have also been seen at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 World Cup and did a pretty good job of it here too.

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Sandy Skoglund

Been a crazy week of work and finally, I’m having a quiet night in, unwinding on beer and restitude, which will consist of cleaning, television and you, dear internet.

Work included some design work for the mayoress’ ball, which was set up to include ten fuck off massive projected screens measuring over  8 by 6 meters wide.  Photo supplied…

So that was cool.

Also, I attended the 12th annual 24 Hours Movie Marathon over the weekend, which sadly, only makes it my second time attending since last year, but since then, I most certainly intend to keep going to for as long as it can go.  Where else can you go park your ass in a cinema for a whole day starting from Lee Marvin to Jeffrey Combs with mandroids and the devil in between?  As a stain on the inside of a film lovers’ pants is where.  Worth it.

Best thing from it though, is its really helped in kicking the movie watching hangover since last year’s exhausting 365 movies in 365 days project, so I’m starting to feel much better adjusted to commence watching some more flicks again.  Yes.

Okay, I’m not exactly sure what the whole context is around the making of this animation, but this animation is just mental.  Created by what I assume is all hand drawn, this short somehow manages to reference quite the number of anime and pop culture films and does it quite impressively.

Buenos Aires based Irina Werning returns with part 2 of her Back to the Future photo series, where she re-enacts an old photo using the same subject, location and style.  In this series she’s branching further out from her hometown and covering more of Europe and the US and has plans for the next lot to be taken around the middle-east.

I just love these photos and the wonderful juxtaposition created from such a simple concept.  The fact that she manages to recreate even the lighting and tones of the photos so perfectly is also bloody amazing.  Be sure to check out the rest of the series at her website.

This image is from one of the exhibitions on right now at Foam Amsterdam where artist Erik Kessels printed off every photo uploaded to flickr in a 24 hour period, resulting in over a million photos piled into multiple rooms.

“We’re exposed to an overload of images nowadays,” says Kessels. “This glut is in large part the result of image-sharing sites like Flickr, networking sites like Facebook, and picture-based search engines. Their content mingles public and private, with the very personal being openly and un-selfconsciously displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualise the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences.”

(via Creative Review)

The Keaton Music Typewriter was first patented in 1936 (14 keys) by Robert H. Keaton from San Francisco, California. Another patent was taken out in 1953 (33 keys) which included improvements to the machine. The machine types on a sheet of paper lying flat under the typing mechanism. [source]

The artwork measures 30cm x 20cm and represents 9 minutes of the earthquake. The sculpture will be presented at the Jerwood Space in London for a show called Terra. Exploring how data is read and can be represented and interpreted, the artwork is one of a series of data visualization sculptures Jerram has recently created. [source]

car sketching by Jim Denevan

NeverWet is a silicon based spary-on developed by the Ross Technology Corp that repels water and oils and, hell… it’s more impact to just watch this…

I’m throwing cash at the screen, but my ultimate slip n slide dreams aren’t coming true.