February 2012
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We Almost Lost an Art Director.
Take_0005.mov Watch on Posterous Take one Noriko. Add Bad Robot’s Action Movie App. Bake until done. Posted via email from Flatacre
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Separable Subsurface Scattering. Or, Should...
via vimeo.com This may be bleeding edge, but CGI appears to be catching up with you know what. From principal creator, Jorge Jimenez: “It shows our latest and final advances on real-time skin rendering (Separable Subsurface Scattering), which enables [one] to quickly render skin in just two post-processing passes. Everything is written from scratch using DirectX 10 and rendered in...
January 2012
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How To Be A Successful Black Artist.
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World Clock
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November 2011
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Nice When the Media Recites Your Brand Strategy...
In another article on CIL’s “Paint Chip Names For Men,” The Winnipeg Free Press had this to say: If you’ve ever hemmed and hawed for hours over a paint colour you know that finding the right colour is no small feat. When you factor in another person, the job becomes that more difficult. Being able to have one colour with is and hers’ names is a great idea. It might...
Day Part Usage Comparison of TV, Internet and...
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Google Results for Advertising Awards Shows.
Ego meet expense account, meet parasitical award show owner. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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Day After The Pitch. The Fantasy World of the...
via youtube.com *Big Dumb Agency. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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A Facinating Look at the Great Pyramid.
via youtube.com Even for those who have exhausted themselves in studying it. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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Social Media: Not Surprisingly, Just Another Tool...
Rather than displacing television, the internet, including social media is doing an excellent job of building the medium.From an article titled, “7 Things You Need to Know About Social TV Right Now,’ the writer provides proof: Back in the summer of 2009, we tracked everything from Sonia Sotomayor (then a nominee for the Supreme Court) to “Glee” to Major League Baseball to “True...
October 2011
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Carved Pumpkins.
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Steampunk Iron Man.
‘This suit is a rebuild of a suit I built with and for Bill Splat Johnson for the Whitestone motion pictures film “Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man”. Bill Johnson designed the suit and he and I sculpted, molded cast and finished the original suit.’ - Matt Silva … Thank you to Bit Rebels via howtobearetronaut.com Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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Where Airplanes Go to Die.
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A Condo Development Video That Breaks Out of the...
via vimeo.com All too often brands follow what ever is being done in the category, regardless of whether or not they have a point of difference. Real Estate Developments are notorious for this. That’s why it’s refreshing to see this video. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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Post Modern Communism With Comments by Karl.
via youtube.com So, let me get this straight. Complete losers who likely have never contributed anything to their own kin, let alone society want to run the world? Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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Toulouse-Lautrec defacates on a beach.
via howtobearetronaut.com “In 1898, Parisian art gallery owner Maurice Joyant photographed his childhood friend Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec defecating on the beach at Le Crotoy, Picardie. A year later Toulouse-Lautrec was committed to an asylum, and in 1901 he died from complications caused by alcoholism and syphilis.” Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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A Stick Bomb Apparently Setting a New Record.
via mayomo.com A stick bomb is a mechanical spring-loaded device constructed out of flat sticks woven together under tension. Other names for stick bombs include Chinese stick puzzles, and frame bombs. That about concludes my stumbling around stumbled upon today. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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STRANDBEEST.
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Untitled
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News From the 7th Century, Broadcast in Hamburg.
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The Human Rights Battle: Murder 0, Hurt Feelings...
via youtube.com This is just one story out of thousands, throughout the world. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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After Six Complaints, Gisele Bündchen's 'Sexist'...
She is one of Brazil’s most successful exports; a 1.80 metre (5ft 11in) supermodel whose meteoric rise to catwalk fame has transformed her into one of the wealthiest, most recognisable women on earth. But Gisele Bündchen’s latest project, a lingerie campaign for the Brazilian label Hope, has appalled government officials in her homeland and led to calls for the “sexist”...
September 2011
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An Annoyingly New Discovery: The McGurk Effect.
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Iran’s Foreign Policy: War With Europe and the...
via mrctv.org Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi is a member of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution in Iran and a famous ideologue and Islamic theorist in the Islamic Republic of Iran. His lectures are aired on IRIB Channel 1 after the Friday Prayer every week. In his televised speeches titled “A Model for Tomorrow,” he addresses a variety of issues including Iran’s foreign policy. On Friday,...
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The Octopus: The Strangest Animal on Earth.
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The Bias Against Creativity.
via realitysandwich.com A study to be published in the journal Psychological Science shows that many people harbor an anti-creativity bias that they are generally not aware of. Despite professing a desire for creative thinking, most people are actually unable to identify a creative idea when they encounter one. Instead, they associate creativity with words like “agony,”...
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The Fanatics vs. The Deniers, in a Rock 'em Sock...
via reuters.com “24 Hours of Reality” will broadcast a presentation by Al Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from Wednesday to Thursday, with the aim of convincing climate change deniers and driving action against global warming among households, schools and businesses.” Sez Roto Reuters. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
Hopeless Disbelief.
Not even the flagrantly biased ‘Rolling Stone’ is standing by the Hopey, Believey guy. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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A Paticularly Touching 911 Story: Man In The Red...
via espn.go.com Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
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Children’s Drawing Painted Realistically.
via whatthecool.com What would a child’s drawing look like if it were painted realistically? The Monster Engine takes children’s drawings and paints them realistically. This project is probably one of my favorite projects. Check out some other drawings after the break. More totally freaked out drawings at the link. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
A Lesson in Storytelling: Welcome to Pine Point.
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A Matter of Counter-Insurgency, or Repelling the...
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I'm Not Afraid of Heights. I'm Afraid of Gravity.
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August 2011
10 posts
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A Cat Doing a Creepy Impression of the Hunchback...
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The Pitch: Getting Australians to Stop Swearing.
via youtube.com Very funny in an entirely crude sort of way. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
News From the 7th Century: Canine Cruelty By Our...
Wylie, the Afghan mutt, was rescued in February by a convoy of British soldiers on patrol in a Kandahar bazaar, where a dog-fighting crowd was beating the smaller dog with lumps of wood to force the last fight out of him. That beating turned out to be the least horrific brutality this resilient canine would suffer over the following weeks, and months: Remarkably he did but his torments were...
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Annoying Phrases/Terms/Words Adopted As Memes in...
Game Changer Vacay Having Said That I’m All About The… That’s What I’m Talking About! Absolutely At The End Of The Day That Being Said Going Forward P/Owned Impact Stake Holders In Harm’s Way It is What It Is Public Investment Going Green Progressive Cringe-Worthy Narrative That Being Said At This Point In Time Just Sayin That’ll Leave A Mark Social...
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European Concerns Over Muslim Immigration Go...
A new opinion survey shows that more than half of all Europeans believe there are too many immigrants in their countries and that immigration is having a negative impact on their lives. The findings – which come as Europeans are waking up to the consequences of decades of mass immigration from Muslim countries – point to a growing disconnect between European voters and their political masters...
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Consumer Confidence At It's Lowest Level Since...
via adage.com I’m certainly no economist, however, I do think I can spot trends. The two presidents known most for their progressive social engineering programs, also suffered the worst scores in consumer confidence since they started measuring such things in 1952. With a majority in both houses, Obama went right to work on social programs, rather than the economy. After two and a half...
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Do QR Codes Work?
via blog.lab42.com Although hardly empirical, this small study does give some indication about the effectiveness of those mostly aggravating little QR monstrocities popping up everywhere. From Lab 42’s post: “This survey was conducted online via social networks from July 28 to August 1, 2011 among 500 social media users. This online survey is not based on a probability sample...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Slavery, But...
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True Bottomfeeders.
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NASA Announces The Discovery Of Flowing Water On...
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July 2011
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Every 60 Seconds on the Internet.
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The Science of Social Timing.
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I Think I’ll Print a Boat. http://post.ly/2MlH1 #3dprinting #science #technology
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I Think I'll Print a Boat.
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News From the 7th Century: All Norwegian Rapists...
via thegatewaypundit.com And all the Norwegians thought they were getting was more pavilions at the local food fest. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »
June 2011
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News From The 7th Century. A Bloody Business:...
via youtube.com Greenpeace? The UN? Peta? The silence is deafening. Posted via email from Flatacre | Comment »