Posts tagged in ‘Cool websites’

The future is here (II)Posted on September 24, 2009

So most people know, Sydney woke up to an apocolyptic scene on Tuesday as a 400 km wide and 2000 km long dust cloud covered the city and produced the craziest light.
For an idea of how insane the dust storm was, check out the video below (it’s worth watching until the end).

The media [...]

Tags: Cool websites, innovation

How does the internet see you?Posted on August 19, 2009

The personas project is a brilliant project by the folk at MIT, to show you how the internet sees you.
It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity.
It basically trawls through your data and categorises what it finds into predetermined set [...]

Tags: Analytics, Cool websites

Beautiful stop-motion from OlympusPosted on July 10, 2009

Regular readers of this blog know of my obsession with stop-motion films. Olympus have just released a really beautiful stop-motion, using 60,000 pictures, 9,600 developed prints and 1,800 shot pictures - with no digital post-production.
It’s absolutely gorgeous, and a beautiful tale of a life well lived.

I do wonder if he walked out on [...]

Tags: Cool websites, Marketing

Bill Posters gets prettyPosted on July 7, 2009

This just brightened my morning. We’ve all seen the ugly “Bill posters will be prosecuted” signs that go up on every blank surface - they are much uglier than the posters. In fact, I love how posters appear on every temporary wall, it’s the main way I find out about concerts coming to Sydney.
Happy [...]

Tags: Cool websites

Vanity search on steroidsPosted on January 14, 2009

We’ve all googled ourselves to see what comes up. If you haven’t, you’re either much less vain than me or probably not really into the whole internet thing.
CVGadget is like googling yourself but with steroids.
You not only get the results in the regular Google search, but it also aggregates results from Google Images, [...]

Tags: Cool websites

This is where we livePosted on December 16, 2008

I’ve posted before about my love of stop-motion - it’s just the most aestetically pleasing medium, I’m not sure why photographs are so much more interesting than video but they just are.
The 4th Estate took 3 weeks and a bunch of animators to make This Is Where We Live, a beautiful animation that combines [...]

Tags: Cool websites

Barter for an awesome “work dress”Posted on

Via Virginia Murdoch, I’ve discovered OurGoods, “a peer to peer network for the exchange of goods and services between artists, designers, craftspeople, and anyone with a creative project.”
Their first project is the Work Dress, a cross between an apron and a tool-belt.

Interestingly, it’s not for sale, it’s only available by bartering goods - so [...]

Tags: Cool websites

Pick your own grannyPosted on December 12, 2008

No sooner had I published my last post about Emblogger (in under ten minutes too), then I stumbled across GoldenHook, a website that allows you to create your own beanie, then select the granny who’s going to knit it for you.

It’s such a cute idea, kind of like Innocent Drinks with their Big Knit [...]

Tags: Cool websites, random thoughts

That’s a dedicated bloggerPosted on

I’d say about half of my blog posts are banged out in under ten minutes, and I forget what I’ve written soon after that.
Over at Embloggery, Nicole Wolfersberger hand-embroiders each entry. Yep that’s right, sews them by hand.

The idea with this project is to examine the implications of the fact that we [...]

Tags: Cool websites, random thoughts

Born everywherePosted on October 19, 2008

The Guardian has a great interactive special on children born in every country in the world who now live in England.

It is incredibly well researched and it looks like a lot of time and energy has gone into this project.
Some of the comments from the kids are hilarious (gotta love the point of [...]

Tags: Cool websites, random thoughts