Archive for the 'Cool Ish' Category

December 28th, 2011

Video :: “12 Drawings a Day” – an animated diary by Denis Chapon

"During 3 years (2008-2011) i have been drawing 12 drawing of animation every day, it make one second of film. I had no plans what so ever before starting the first drawing. And then, each of the folowing days, I took the 3 last drawing from the day before and kept on animating." This is pretty f*ing dope. Check out the animated works after the ...
December 20th, 2011

Music Documentary :: Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones

"Gimme Shelter" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones that was the opening track on the band's 1969 album Let It Bleed. The Rolling Stones first played the song live in 1969 at Pop Go the Sixties. **blognote** Sooooo, this post was actually just going to be a throwback to one of my favorite songs ever (for some reason, in the last two ...
December 17th, 2011

Levitatr Bluetooth Keyboard – Cool Ish

via Uncrate How do you keep a keyboard's keys from scratching everything in your bag as you tote it around? You flatten them out, of course. The Levitatr Bluetooth Keyboard ($100-$110) brings this idea to fruition, with elevating, LED-backlit keys that raise up when they're needed and retreat into the stealth black surface when they're not. Other ...
December 15th, 2011

Cool Ish – Stop Motion Super Mario Enters The Real World

Maybe it's because I played this game religiously.... Maybe it's because of that iconic music.... Maybe it's because every single one of us who owned a Nintendo back in the day had a special way to blow on those game cartridges to get it them to work... Whatever it is, when I see something involving Super Mario on the web, I'm forced to click on ...
December 13th, 2011

Video :: Watch the Throne Tour behind the scenes footage part 2.

We posted part 1 a few weeks ago when Kanye West was telling us a little bit about his inspiration and why he does what he does.... in episode 2 posted today (spotted at highsnob) Kanye and Jay are in Ye's hometown of Chicago.... shit is dope. **blognote** Today is the last show that the Throne is doing in LA. This morning I was so close to ...
December 13th, 2011

Music :: “Hypnotize” – Notorious S.I.R.I. [SIRI x Notorious B.I.G.]

from robertboehnke's youtube: "My hack for the Music Hack Day 2011 in London. SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple's servers. Based on your song request, Notorious Siri then sends your choice of Notorious B.I.G.'s Hypnotize and an a-cappella rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to the device (the latter requiring 4 iPhones ...
December 12th, 2011

Video :: This girl takes a picture of herself everyday [for the last 5 years]

Reason 32,343,180 that I love the interwebs.... This smoke takes a picture of herself, everyday, since 2006 - nothing more, nothing less - and then post those pictures to flickr and makes a video every few months with the updated shots. I am enthralled by this and so are the almost 18 million other people that have seen a youtube video of hers... I've ...
December 5th, 2011

Video :: Watch the Throne Tour behind the scenes footage

Remember my "We'll be getting to WATCH the Throne..." post .... It looks like here is some of the footage thats made its way to youtube..... in this first clip we get an introspective voice over from Kanye, talking about what he wants his effect on this world to be. "Its a pursuit and a responsibility, you know, if people have done things before, ...