Posted in Chris Likes, Color, Cool Stuff, Personal Projects, Photography on Aug 24th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve been testing out my new camera and getting use to using it so expect to see more photos soon. I’m also migrating my entire photo library to Lightroom because iPhoto is starting to have trouble handling the large image catalog. So as soon as I get that up to speed I can spend less [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Personal Projects, Photography on Aug 13th, 2009 2 Comments »
Traveled alone into the heart of the Everglades last night in a desperate attempt to escape the glow of the city lights. Found an area off the road where there was nothing to see but the flickering of stars against the blackness of space. Set-up the camera on a tripod and pointed it skyward. The [...]
Posted in Chris Likes, Cool Stuff, Music, Videos on Aug 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Watch as Bobby Mcferrin hacks the brains of his audience members by demonstrating the power of the Pentatonic Scale. Pretty interesting stuff. The connection of music with the human brain is shared by everyone and this demonstration is a simple example of an idea that is being developed further by scientists & researchers around the [...]
Posted in Art, Chris Likes, Cool Stuff, Videos on Jun 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Bang-Yao Liu created this stop-motion animation for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design and boy is it awesome. Half way through watching this I forgot that all the images are composed of different colored post-it notes arranged in a neat grid. Most appealing thing about this for me is the “pixel [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Videos on Jun 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
Really, he is. The video below is his latest show reel where he, uh, shows-off all of his cool flips, jumps and tricks. This guy does stuff that you would only see in a movie or video game and makes it look easy. I’d love to be able to just be standing around in a [...]
Posted in Art, Chris Likes, Cool Stuff, Paintings on May 6th, 2009 No Comments »
I came accross this article about a gilr named Sara Watson that dedicated three days of her life to painting an old car and blending it into the background. Needless to say the amount of patience and attention to detail here is pretty astounding. The vehicle is used as advertising by the locl recycling company [...]
Posted in Art, Cool Stuff, Crazy Shit, Videos on May 1st, 2009 No Comments »
An optical illustion design by artist Adelbert Ames, Jr..
Pretty crazy to look at. I’ve watched it 5 times already listening to the explanation of how it works and still can’t get my head around it. Why is my human brain so limited?!?!?!
Posted in Cool Stuff, Games on Mar 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Speaking of WoW:
Blizzard, one of the greatest game developers in the world, installed a new statue in front of their offices. Alliance players may be saddened to find that the statue is of an Orc on his wolf mount. No silly gnomes or humans to be found here! Looks pretty damn sweet if you ask [...]
Posted in Animation, Art, Chris Likes, Cool Stuff, Videos on Mar 8th, 2009 No Comments »
An artist named Reza Dolatabadi painted over 6000 individual paintings and Adam Thomson animated it into the video below. It’s already won numerous awards and rightfully so! This was amazing to watch!
Posted in Chris Likes, Cool Stuff, Games, Movies, Videos on Feb 18th, 2009 No Comments »
For those that haven’t seen it yet. Well worth your viewing time.
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