Monthly Archives: June 2008

The Animation Show Year 4

June 30th, 2008 | Posted in Art

The Animation Show is back for it’s 4th year touring the US with a new line-up of independent animation curated by Mike Judge. It opens in the Bay Area on July 4th at The Lumiere Theatre in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley. “The Animation Show is back with an all new collection of [...]

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The Website is Down: Sales Guy vs Web Dude

June 29th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

The Website is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude, created by Josh Weinberg, is a hilarious look at the life of a tech support person versus the evil Sales Guy

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Fastest Clock in the World tells time to the microsecond

June 27th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

Art school student Freddie Yauner’s CO2-powered Highest Popping Toaster in the World concept is great and all (it’s even supposedly Guinness World Record-certified), but a clock that aims to tell time to one millionth of a second is what it takes to turn our geeky, schedule-obsessed hearts to mush. Since no display can refresh a [...]

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The Reverse Graffiti Project

June 21st, 2008 | Posted in Art, Technology

Paul “Moose” Curtis is considered the pioneer of reverse graffiti art, also known as clean tagging. Graffiti usually gets a bad rap, because it’s associated with vandalism or property damage. Reverse graffiti spins that on its head by doing the exact opposite. Perhaps the most popular example of graffiti art is the dusty car with [...]

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Spore: trial

June 17th, 2008 | Posted in Featured, Gaming

Games don’t come any more ambitious than Spore and although the premise of the now in-famously delayed game and magnum opus of Will Wright is fairly simple, the actual realisation of that concept has proven incredibly difficult. The idea behind Spore is this; you are God, the Alpha, Omega and Almighty. You are omniscient, omnipresent [...]

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Sony making collapsable PS3 controller

June 16th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Technology

Sony is reportedly working on a new PlayStation 3 controller it seems – the third controller to appear for the Blu-Ray playing games console after the original SixAxis controller and later DualShock. The new controller is expected to break apart in some form, creating two halves which can be held and wielded independantly. The two [...]

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