National Geographic (or NatGeo if you watch there awesome channel) has a new project on their website called Infinite Photograph.
Dive into this photo-mosaic portrait of the Earth to see it through the eyes of users like you. It’s made up of hundreds of photos of the natural world, each submitted by users to My Shot.
Its a interactive image viewer that uses hundreds of images to make a tile mosaic of another image. From there you can click on a quadrant and zoom in to see the images that made up the larger image. Very much worth checking out.
In the not-too-distant future, we’ll be laughing at fake wayfarers, neon keffiyehs, and ironic facial hair in the same way we now derisively dismiss pegged jeans, trucker hats, and acid-washed anything. In the meantime, Look at this Fucking Hipster is chronicling the worst of these offenders for our future lulz (or present, for those of us that don’t live in Williamsburg).
If you follow Daft Punk at all and/or played Little Big Planet then this will rock your socks off:
With the growth of control and interactivity available via video games, the world of Machinima is really taking off. Games like Little Big Planet are designed with user content generation in mind and its amazing to see how it is being adapted and expanded by the user community.
Actually, it seems quite a bit more serious than that. The Hunt for Gollum is a 40-minute film written, directed and produced by Chris Bouchard. A story that was pieced together from the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, Bouchard says the film was created as a tribute to both the books by J.R.R. Tolkien and the films by Peter Jackson, but also as an experiment in low-budget film making. A collaborative effort of several volunteers and contributors, The Hunt for Gollum has seriously high production values and actually looks like it might be really good. You can find out for yourself when it debuts at Dailymotion.com on May 3rd. In the meantime, check out the trailer.
Anonymous. Over 9000 strong, they are legion. And now they’ve hacked Time Magazine’s 2009 list of most influential people. Paul Lemere talks about this impressive feat over at his blog.
Not only has the poll been swamped to promote Moot (the pseudonym of the creator of 4chan, an image board and the birthplace for many internet memes) as the most influential of people, the poll crashers have manipulated the order of all the other nominees so that the first letter of each line spells out ‘marble cake, also the game’ (marble cake is not really a kind of cake btw). This is pretty phenomenal, precision hacking. Precision hacking of an extremely high profile poll run by a top notch media company.
BTW, by reading this post, you’ve just lost The Game.
Here’s a video of Danny MacAskill absolutely tearing it up in an amazing display of street trials riding. Danny, an Inspired Bicycles-sponsored rider, cuts the tightest, most insane lines I’ve ever seen. Physics is his bitch.
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