Links published in October 2007 — Most recent at top.
Michael’s in the house: The Mitchel Bros. wish they could move like Michael Jackson and so do you, so learn how to moon walk like Michael Jackson. •
Hopkins is directing my kind of odd dream-based stories and Scorcese is directing The Stones. I always said movie trailers are the new feature films: they often seem more poignant, mesmerizing and actually good than the 2h film they are trying to advertise. •
Ridin’ Dirty Face by The Polaroid Kidd. Gorgeous, georgous photography, right up my alley. Truly personal, emotionally strong. When you can picture the photos with their odd composition and colors as beautiful large paintings, you know its good. Details everywhere, brushy worlds almost too good. This is one of my favorites. Oh, and these too. •
Energie in Motion : c’est un rafinement de ce qu’ Eric faisait avant que ce soit cool de le faire (merci John). •
Storefront for Art and Architecture in Soho is showcasing a BIG (a collective of Copenhagen architects and designers) exhibition of proposals for innovative residential typologies, which includes a a 250,000 piece lego tower. There’s a time-lapse video of the making at the bottom of the page and pictures of close-up details this way. It’s quite surprising the amount of planing required to build such a structure, much like life-size architecture. •
For those who think paint naming sounds like an easy job, try this: The paint game. You have the name, now match the color. Fairly hard. •
Is it Christmas? Subscribe to the RSS feed! And visit its cousin-from-the-extended-family-site Is it Tuesday? •
What the F***? Great article on why we curse. The biological unconscious reactions is quite a revelation. Et une étude sociologique est netemment nécessaire afin d’expliquer la particularités des sacres québécois a être toujours beaucoup plus reliés à la religion que chez nos cousins français. •
When I watch clips like this one about the dimensions of the universe and what it contains, I just feel like dropping all the everyday stuff and rules and obligations right this instant and shouting “what’s the use, huh?” •
Famed blogger Jason Kottke interviews music critic for the New Yorker Alex Ross about his new book The Rest is Noise “a history of the twentieth century through its music”. •
If I were to get tattooed, I would go to Lifeunderzen Private Studio in Tokyo. Very personal in their approach. You know that if the studio’s motto is “The tattoo is never more important than the person wearing it”, you’re in good hands. •
Michel de Brouin gagne le prix Sobey : ouais le même qui a fait l’escalier montréalais en mobius derrière le métro Papineau. •
Flickr: Entoptic Phenomena. Me love ghosts a lot. (merci rickgee & francis) •
Youtube: Demo of single player puzzle game Portal released yesterday. They need a multiplayer first-person shooter version. •
Et en passant, j’ai eu un entretien la semaine dernière avec Christianne Charette pour le volet web du projet/émission Cabine C sur ArtTV. L’entrevue est par ici. J’suis bien content de paraître beaucoup moins nerveux que je ne l‘étais. Et y’a quelques autres amis-bloggeurs dans le paquet: Véro, Caro et Alex. •
Shopsin’s General Store. A nice, typographically gorgeous, one-page-stop web store. •
Uncle J., this might interest you: LoomStudio offers 12 “pimped” concrete blocks to adorn the surface of any building’s envelope. “The building industry increasingly relies on standardized building components in new construction, defined by economy and utility. The utilization of these building components increases efficiency by reducing the number of unknowns and consequently, the necessity for highly skilled labor. This, in turn, increases profitability. The result is that our built environment is increasingly defined by the properties of these mass-produced elements. This is an area of design that has been left conspicuously unaffected by architects and designers. Because of their ubiquitous nature, the design or modification of these products is perhaps one of the simplest and most direct ways for design to affect the built environment.” •