Human beings are remarkable. I keep imagining a future where these designs are streamlined and mainstreamed, and we’re all riding around on spider-like AT-ATs. Making Wild Wild West‘s impossibly stupid ‘giant mechanical spider’ seem like the before-its-time genius idea that it actually was. And then NO ONE WILL EVER MAKE FUN OF JON PETER’S MECHANICAL [...]
Archive for the ‘Innovation’ Category
Theo Jansen and His Beach Beasties
Posted in Art, awesome, Innovation, tagged Jon Peters, Kinetic Sculpture, mechanical spider, Strandbeasts, Theo Jansen on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Swedish People are INTENSE
Posted in Innovation, Unhealthy addictions, tagged bacon, intense, Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time, Sweden on January 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I just never knew.
The Tenacity of the Limb Rat
Posted in Architecture, Innovation, Rube Goldberg, Squirrels on January 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I never understood why la Ardilla is not the dominant scavenger in the shared human landscape. They may not be as smart as rats, but they’re 10X faster. Squirrels can scrabble up the side of a windy day. They’re very talented jumpers, and persistent in the way that is only possible when desperate hunger and [...]
Kenny Powders Is Back
Posted in Art, awesome, Comedy, Courage, Innovation, Quixotic Monomania, tagged Eastbound and Down, Kenny Powers, Season 2, Trailer on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am Christmas-morning-excited about the new season of Eastbound & Down: I realize that it’ll be hard to duplicate the perfection of the first season, but I’ve got a feeling this one’s gonna be even better. I mean, just look at the damn cornrows: it’s amazing.
Sarah Connor vs. Chunk
Posted in Art, awesome, Film, Innovation, tagged Chunk, Goonies, Sarah Connor, Terminator on April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Glorious: If it’s not movin’, click on the image for the awesomeness.
Banky’s Exit Through the Gift Shop Film Trailer
Posted in Art, awesome, Bureaucratic Nightmare, Courage, Creativity, Design, Film, illustration, Innovation, Video Games, tagged Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Space Invader, tre´ Ninja on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot wait to see this. The scene in the trailer where Banksy scales the wall effortlessly to escape the cops is tre´ Ninja. This, to me, is the purest example of art needing a valve. When people will risk criminal prosecution to exercise free speech, creativity, and really, hard-ass-work, I think there’s a pretty [...]
Alan Moore on Celebrity Culture/Post-Civilization/DIY in Wired
Posted in Comics, Innovation, Quotes, tagged Alan Moore, celebrity culture, Dodgem Logic, Wired on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Scott Thill did a nice interview with Alan Moore over at Wired, in which he discusses a number of things, primarily his Zine, Dodgem Logic. Mr. Moore seems to be melding the “global/local” movement, into something he calls lobel- basically, producing his ‘zine, marketing it globally (via Mr. Moore’s already considerable fame and interest in [...]
Illustrator Spotlight: Daniel m. Davis & His “Monster Commute”
Posted in Art, Comics, Creativity, Design, Innovation, tagged Daniel M. Davis, Monster Commute, Steamcrow on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Stumbled upon this the other day, whilst hunting for reference photos. Daniel m. Davis’ really beautiful web comic, Monster Commute. The man’s work with illustrator is sublime and his color sense is impeccable. I’ve only gone through a number of panels, but each page is just a joy to behold. His work is just remarkable- [...]
OK Go- This Too Shall Pass
Posted in Art, Creativity, Film, Innovation, Music, tagged genius, OK Go, Rube Goldberg, This Too Shall Pass on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Abso-mfing-remarkable: I fear they’ve innovated themselves into a corner. I mean, how the hell are they gonna top that?
Paul Simon- Another Galaxy
Posted in Art, Innovation, Music, tagged Another Galaxy, Paul Simon, Paul Simon is writing better lyrics than you RIGHT NOW, Surprise, Vincent Nguini on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My favorite track from Surprise. I love Vincent Nguini’s playing on this. Easily one of my favorite guitarists ever.
RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Girl Talk, U2, and Walt Disney as Remixer
Posted in Art, blog, Courage, Creativity, Film, Innovation, Music, Pirates, Politics, tagged Brett Gaylor, Girl Talk, Greg Ginn, Mark Hosler, Negativland, RiP! A Remix Manifesto, These Guys Are From England and Who Gives A Shit, U2 on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just watched Brett Gaylor’s Rip! A Remix Manifesto on Hulu last night. I’m actually shocked that NBC, Fox and ABC (Disney) would have this online, in this format; despite its lionization of Disney the Man, Disney the Company is really taken to task here. Maybe it’s the “if we join them, they will disappear” belief. [...]
The Rick Rubin Syndrome (or, How to Re-Animate An Artistic Corpse) Pt. 1
Posted in Art, Creativity, illustration, Innovation, Music, tagged artistic limitations, cabin in Minnesota, It Might Get Loud, Jack White, Madonna's artistic vampirism, Prince, Rick Rubin, The Rick Rubin Syndrome, The White Stripes on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have a friend who despises Madonna, hates her with every fiber of her being. She believes that any artistic success Madge has had is due, for the most part, to attaching herself to a successful hot producer and sucking the producer’s young artistic blood, then moving on, like a horrifying Cruella DeVille-like mosquito (to [...]
John Nese is Everything That’s Right With America
Posted in Good People, Innovation, tagged Everything that's Right with America, Galcos Soda Pop Stop, John Nese on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remember when people didn’t lie to each other just to make a profit? Remember when common sense and decency ruled the day? No? Meet John Nese:
Machinarium Looks Gorgeous
Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, illustration, Innovation, Video Games, tagged 9, BioShock, Boing Boing, Dave McKean, Donkey Kong, Machinarium, Mirrormask, Shane Acker, SSX, The Dark Eye, World of Goo on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m not a big video game player (at least not since my Donkey Kong days- the Glory!) but occasionally I fall into one like Alice down a rabbit hole. The SSX series completely had me for about 2 years, I enjoyed the hell out of the lo-fi World of Goo, loved the ambition and scope [...]
Giles Timms Video for Ceri Frost’s “Dead All Along”
Posted in Art, blog, Creativity, Design, Film, illustration, Innovation, Music, tagged Anything, Ceri Frost, Dead All Along, Edward Gorey, Giles Timms, The Damned on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This song almost sounds like an outtake from The Damned’s Anything album (not one of their critical faves, but I loved it). Huge reverbs, poppy and to the effin’ point, man. Nicely done. And the video is really beautiful: organic, lush, and the amount of depth is really staggering. It’s a nice Gorey homage without [...]
How People Like Brian Eno Come Into Existence
Posted in Art, blog, Creativity, Design, Education, illustration, Innovation, Quotes, tagged art school, Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies, Oscar Wilde, Prince, Tom Waits, Wired on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wired has a great little article from March about Brian Eno’s art school days here. A couple of things struck me about the article: The deliberate introduction of randomness in Brian Eno’s life, and the idea of changing artistic and social roles to facilitate new and interesting art. Eno’s art professors would have the students [...]
Mentos: The Failmaker
Posted in Comedy, Innovation, Poor Physics, Sports, tagged Mentos, Pure awesomeness, The Failmaker on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Peter Jackson on District 9, “Lack of Original Ideas in Hollywood”
Posted in Art, blog, Creativity, Film, Innovation, tagged District 9, Halo, Neill Blomkamp, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nice interview by Frenchman Geoff Boucher at the LA Times. P-Jack talks about Neill Blomkamp’s terrible “first film experience” with Halo falling apart, and how they dealt with it: We don’t own the ‘Halo’ franchise. We can’t raise the money somewhere else. It’s their property, they’ve got the license for it. So the way to [...]
Man Piledriving a Shark
Posted in Art, Innovation, tagged Final Fight, Haggar, Piledriving a Shark on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Gross Kicking Much Intellectual Ass
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, tagged Bill Gross kicking ass, Idealab, TED talks on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Gross from Idealab in his 2003 Ted Talk:
Paul Shirley on Jazz and the NBA
Posted in Art, Innovation, Music, Quotes, tagged Baseball, Bull Durham, Itzhak Perlman, jazz, NBA basketball, Paul Shirley on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because really, who’s more qualified to talk about Jazz than Paul Shirley? All kidding aside, Shirley’s article touches on something that I’ve thought for years, and articulates it pretty well. Namely, there’s a number of sports that you have to have played (in my case, poorly) to really love them. Baseball is chess. I’ve known [...]
Steve Jobs: Don’t Live Someone Else’s Life
Posted in Education, Innovation, Quotes, tagged Courage, Desiradata, Information wants to be free, Inner Voice, Max Ehrmann, Steve Jobs, trapped by dogma on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow [...]
