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Yay! 2007 is over — if I’ve got three wishes left …. watch these three videos and Du wirst das Jahr 2007 fröhlich beenden!

Here’s the three years-end-alls-well videos you MUST watch (in this order!):

• The Good the Bad the Ugly
• Smells like Teen Spirit
• Fly Me of the Handel

See you all nächstes Jahr!

Ja, genau. Handtuchtag. Der Todestag von Douglas Adams jährte sich am 11. Mai 2007 zum sechsten Mal. Und daher ist auch heute Handtuchtag:

Achja, wer sich nun ärgert, dass da oben alles ausgeblendet ist, was ohne Bedeutung für den Handtuchtag ist, der kann ja gerne hier klicken.

Den Zoomquilt gab es ja schonmal hier — hier nun ein weiteres “Zoomflash“.

Es erinnert ja in der Tat stark an M.C. Escher und ein digg Kommentator konnte auch einen interessanten Link dazu beisteuern: “A logarithmic image transformation” — wer an den mathematischen Hintergründen interessiert ist (und vor ein paar Funktionen nicht zurückschreckt) wird dort sicher fündig.

Weiter unten auf der Seite sind noch ein paar statische (aber dennoch ganz interessante) Demonstrationen.

Das Ganze heißt übrigens scheinbar “Droste effect” und wurde erwartungsgemäß natürlich auch schon mit M.C. Escher Werken gemacht — was ich übrigens wirklich gelungen finde.

Sowas will ich in 4.50m x 3.60m als Tapete.

Ich versteh’s nicht. Ich versteh’s einfach nicht. Was treibt Spammer dazu, mir permanent Mails zu schicken, die nichtmal eine URL enthalten?

She and he honkeys’
Random willed sex smiles
Eco eat spun doc wet work
Paid by skin inch.

Achnee, ’schuldigung, das ist kein Spam, das ist Steven B. Smith. Da applaudieren die Leute bestimmt (Hurz!).

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“Arenamontanus” gave some thoughts to which warning signs might be needed in the future.

While this is inherently a pretty creative idea he additionally came up with a couple of quite clever solutions and reasonable explanations.

Let’s hope he’s not prior-art embattling for a 2030s series of copyright lawsuits…

When I referred to the forum threads on Suzanne’s site as “another idea I totally envy” that was supposed to be my only daily sin.

I really should have taken the time to look around. Sparked by her comment I went back and found an extensive site, packed with beautifully grotesque stuff.

You might get comparable results if you had an extremely skilled and completely psychopathic bunch of scientiest blend William Hogarth, Oscar Wilde and Marilyn Manson, but for starters: Here’s her site

Yet another idea I totally envy: A holy fashion thread (did I hear you yell “BLASPHEMY!!” … ? … *evilgrin*). Actually there are two threads now (part one and part two) and some of the ideas are quite inspiring.

I still favour the ‘opening picture’ (small thumbnail on the right). Compared to others from the thread this work is actually quite ‘young’ (it was done by Clovis Trouille in 1944) but I can well image how our beloved religious fundamentalists reacted upon it back then.

Anyway, like I said — besides some average pics the galleries feature some pretty nice and exotic works!

Inspired by InterfaceLIFT I did my first photographic wallpaper (the first which is suitable for a general audience that is).

I did not do too much to it, cropped it a little bit (mainly to get the different aspect ratios) and very little color correction (saturation and contrast).

Choose your resolution below (click here to see your screen resolution):

Widescreen 16:10: 2560×1600 · 1680×1050 · 1440×900
Regular 4:3: 1600×1200 · 1280×1024 · 1280×960 · 1024×768

How do you like it?

According to Michal Levy Goethe once said (or wrote, for that matter) “Architecture is crystallized music“. So she took John Coltrane’s jazz piece “Giant steps” and created an astonishing animation to visualize the tune with abstract architectural shapes.

The work is not exactly brand new, she did it as her graduation project for the visual communication department of the “Belazel Academy of Art and Design” (Jerusalem) in 2001 but I came across her homepage today and thought I’d better blog this

So watch the movie here (2:15 min.), make sure you have your sound up and running and probably bring a little patience as well, the file is 4.8MB and might take a couple of seconds to load (depending on your internet connection of course).

It is wonderful, is it not?