So yeah, I've been in the process of writing a super cool post here, something super humorous and all.Haven't been successful so I'll just share stuff I've been reading/playing/watching/acutely observing.
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(I) I'll start with my favorite of all these. The art and the experience.
Wake Felderman' Art: As per his site, it's "a social experiment about communication". Wonderful art depicting metaphors. See it to get it.
50 States Project - Photographers from each of the 50 United States were asked to take one picture of people, landscape, habitat, and industry.
Aerial Virtual Tours: - Explore large-scale photos taken with a remote control helicopter, stitched together, then given a navigation interface and soundtrack.
Infinite Photograph: Every pixel in the photograph is another photograph. And so on..
Invading The Vintage: Sci-fi imagery put into vintage Swiss postcards.
Insect Lab: Guy replaces parts of dead insects with clockwork and watch parts. Results are astounding.
200 SUEÑOS ILUSTRADOS : Awesome illustrations of childrens dreams.
Scribbls : "Bees plus flowers gives you honey. Pie and rat together make "pirate." Putting any two things together is bound to have an interesting, even hilarious, effect—or outcome. At Scribbls, you can combine thousands of different drawings to create an infinite number of outcomes."
Neave Anaglyph : "Do you have a pair of those red-blue 3D glasses lying around? If you do, whip 'em out and start doodling big wiggly lines in 3D." Loads of other insane psychedelic/unreal experiences here. Do check.
Markus Neidel: A long parallax-animated piece of cartoon art in an interactive interface, with creepy sheep and other imagery.
superZOOM: Recursively drawn art with a great zoom interface.
Picasso's Guernica in 3D: A video by Lena Gieseke that explores the dimensions of the famous painting.
The Impossible Art Of Li Wei: Insane photography.
II)The literature/Reading material.
Longest Poem in the world
Unnecessary Quotes
Top 10 worst company URLs:The irony is just, .. there.
(III) The videos come next.
Eternal Moonwalk: Never ending moonwalk. MJ lives on!!
http://soydeaire.labuat.com/ - Interactive music video!! Move the cursor around to the sound of Spanish band 'Labuat'. Create your own music video. Way cool and fun!!
Kutiman-Thru-you - 01 - Mother of All Funk Chords - Artist creates songs by mashing up samples taken directly from YouTube videos. Check his youtube homepage for more.
Incredible Webcam Collaboration: - A music video for 'Hibi no Neiro' by SOUR. Features some amazing webcam trickery.
Video from the Sushi’s Perspective - A tourist in Japan places her video camera on a sushi conveyor belt at a restaurant. It travels for over seven minutes and confounds the kitchen staff.
Superman - Native Tongue - Hyderabad-based band Native Tongue's latest music video. Really neat stuff.
Lasagna Cat - A collection of twenty-seven live-action re-enactments of Garfield strips, all featuring music videos or other presentations. Rubber Johnny: Creepy flash video.
(IIII) The games!!
Canabalt - A long daring escape. Damn cool!!
Red Remover - Crazy addictive game where your goal is to remove the red shapes without letting any green shapes fall off the screen.
Whack your Boss - Find 17 ways to kill your boss. Very bloody and gory, but ironically, pretty funny too.
Fantastic Contraption - Physics-based game, damn fun for the mechanically inclined ;)
lose/lose - Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted. Ha ha ha!! Eat bytes!!
Have fun.
Cheers and regards,
Faiz
